Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-11
THE MARKET BASKET.
Raspberries at Their Best-Home-Grown
Celery and Squash Now Here.

Raspberries at Their Grown
Celery and Squash Now Here.
In the berry line raspberries now have the
field, and prices reached the lowest point OF
the season this week. Strawberries are now
a thing of the past. Blackberries and hue
kleberries are now coming in freely and de-
mand is scarcely up to the supply.
Home raised cabbage, celery and squash
are now on the Diamond market stalls and
are in fair request at prices quoted. The
opportunities for procuring fruits and vege-
tables of the best at reasonable prices are
not often as good as they are right now.
Quality of garden products is constantly
The time for putting up currants and rasp-
berries is here, and the housekeeper who
fails.to make the most of this weeks oppor-
tunities will be in a penitent mood next
week. WatermelonS are in Dountiful sup
ply and slow at a decided decline from last
weeks prices.
Staple meats seldom change in price what
ever the ups and downs of live stock, and
we quote the same in this line as a week ago.
At the fish stalls trade is reported light as
is to be expected at this season. Supply is
also light owing to storms on the coast.
Florists also report quietness. Among the
new arrivals in the floral lines are sweet
peas.
Following are latest retail prices of mar
ket basket filling:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, 25c per
chuck roasts, 12c; corned beef Sd1Oc per . spring
lamb 25c leg of mutton, 121ac for hind quarter and
&c for fore quarter: loin of mutton 15c lamb chops
m snSd Sdesei sae p Pork ehop Tsai an9
steaks 10c, an advance of &c per ID. rates which
have prevailed for some months past. Veal is the
only article in the flesh line which fails to respond
to the upward movement of prices.
VEGETABLES AND FRUIT ri New homegrown
cabbage, 1O915c; potatoes, &c per half peck:
Bermuda onions, 15c quartz yellow beans, 2Oc;
wax beans. 25c quarter peck squash 5G10c apiece;
bananas. Ma25c dozen; carrots, SC bunch; toma
peck lemons 30G40c per dozen: oranges, 25d40c; let
tuce sc per bunch; beets, l0c bunch radishes, Sea
bunch :cucumbers &c apiece; cherries SG10c quartz
green gooseberries and currants. 1Oc quart; egg
bunch for 25c; raspberries, I@12c box: water
melons, 2UG35c apiece; cantaloupes, 3O6lIOc apiece:
homegrown caulifower. 1G@15c apiece; blackber-
ries, 10912c box: huckleberries, 15c quart; ap-
pies, l5c quarter peck.
BUTTER AND EGGs-Good creamery, 2Oc per ID:
fancy brands DC: choice country rolls. l5c; good
cooking butter, 12c; fresh eggs, 20c per dozen.
POULTRY-Dressed chickens, Il to 13c per ID;
FISH-Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices Lake salmon 10 to 15c Cal
ifornia salmon, 35 to 40c per pound; white fish, 12
to 15c: herring pounds for sc; Spanish mackcrel,
25c lake trout 121c Holsters, 2Oc; green TURTLE
20 to 25c. Oysters: New York counts 81 70 per gal
Ion smelts, 20c pound shad, 81 % to 81 . each:
scallops, 20c pound. Mackinaw trout. 125c per
pound; soft shell crabs 81 90 to 81 25 dozen; frogs
s. 60 n dozen.
FLowERs-La France. 81 25 per dozen; Mermets,
81 3 per dozen; Brides, 81 p per dOzen yellow and
white roses, 81 90 per dozen: Bennetts, 81 90 per
bany q 25 per dozen: heliotrope, SOC per dozen:
Harrisif, sc each hostes. 81 3 dozen; pansies,
25c water lilies. sc a dozen; sweet peas, IOc
dozen; Senator Wootten roses, 81 25 a dozen.