Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-13
THE MARKET BASKET.
New Fruits and Vegetables at Their Best
Creamery Butter Higher.

Southern fruits and vegetables have been
coming in very freely the past few days, and
drift of markets is downward. Prices are
generally lower in this line than they were a
week ago Home raised cherries and straw
berries are to the front, and while prices for
the home article are sleeper than that from
the South, demand is active at the higher
price. The best home raised strawberries
are retailing at 20c per box. The home crop
from all appearances will be light this
season, and the waning time will be here
week hence. Home raised cherries are now
near their best time.
The yield in this line is only fair. May
frOsts, while not entirely disastrous to
cherries and strawberries, had the effect of
curtailing the yield. so that we will not have
an average crop in either line this season.
About the only new article in vegetable
lines on the Diamond Market stalls is home
grown celery, which is now coming in in fine
shape and quality. Florists report a good
is the week when the sweet girl graduates
are in their glory. The only new articles in
floral lines are water lilies. Choice creamery
butter is in demand at a shade higher prices
than last week, and eggs are shade lower.
At the fish stalls all hands were busy this
morning, unusually considering the
weather. Prices of ocean products are un-
changed. Following are retail prices of
market basket filling:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderlOin steaks 25c per
d.; sirloin, 1S92Oc; standing rib roast. 1S9aoc;
ID. .
lamb, 25c; leg of mutton l2ac for hind quarter and
Sc for fore quarter IOn of mutton 15c lamb clIUpS
0c: stewing pieces. &c per d.: veal rOasts, l25e9
I5c per fb. and outlets 20c. Pork chops 12Isc and
steaks, 10c advance of &c per 10. rates which
have prevailed for some months past Veal is the
only article in the flesh line which fails respond
to the upward movement of prices.
VEGETABLES-CabDage- 5GtOc; potatoes, sc per
half peck; Bermuda potatoes, 25c quarter
peck; Bermuda onions. 15c a quart; new peas,
BEANS 25c a quarter peck: bananas, UdG5c Il
dozen; carrots. sc Il bunch: tomatoes zoe quart;
lemons 30I,i0c per doZen oranges. 2JdlOc; lettuce,
sc per bunch: new Deets, 1Oc bunch asparagus,
sc bunch, for 20C: radishes. &c a bunch: cucum-
bers, 5d10c apiece; Strawberries I0QI5c quart;
green gooseberries and currants 12c q quart; egg
plants, 1563Oc; new homegrown celery, l0c
bunch, for 25c.
BUTTER AND EGGS-Good creamery. 2Oc per ID;
fancy brands, 25c: choice country rolls, l5c: good
cooking butter 12c: fresh eggs, 19c per dozen.
PoULTRT-Dressed chickens, u to 13c per 10;
ducks 13c to 15c per ID: turkeys. 16c.
FISII-FOlOwtng are the articles in this line on
the stalls, with prices: Lake salmon. 10 to i5c: Call
fOrnia salmon 81 to 40c per pound; white fish, 122
40c per pound; bluefsh 15c; haibut 20c rock bass,
25c lake trout 12c lObsters 2Oc: green turtle,
20 to sc. OYSTERS New York counts. q 75 per gal
lOn smelts, Zoe pound: shad, q OO to Il > each:
scallOps, zoe pound. Mackinaw trout, 12l@c per
pound: soft shell crabs. 81 90 10 a y a dozen.
FLOwERS-La France 81 . per dozen: Hermets,
81 90 per DOZEN Brides 81 0G per dozen; yellow and
white roses, 75c per dozen: Benefits. 81 GO per
dozen: carnations. Sc per dozen: Duchess of Al
bany, 81 90 per dozen: heliOtrOpe SOC per dozen:
75c to 81 90 dozen; pansies. sc; water lilies SO
dozen; peonies, 75c a dozen; moss roses, T5c .
dozen.