New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-14
FEATURES or TIE NIRKETS.
STRAWBERRIES FROM FLORIDA AND oRAN0ES
AND APPLES FROM CALIFORNIA.

AND APPLES FROM CALIFORNIA
The thing which strikes the visitors to the fahcy
fruit and hghclass market places most ioicios
is the rapid Improvement in the quality of The straw
berries exposed for sale In fortnight more u'o
public may even hope to that fulness OF uhe
season when strawberry slOrtoake begins 10 eiu Ill
added interest the bills Of fare in the restaurants
Fin, berrie; can now be had the Broadway stores
for 20 cent, and ~ a quart while Inferior fruit 10
found i'm abundance at 30 and 30 cents aAd inc CRY
Of the street pcdler selling Strawberries has been heard
in New-Yorl city and Brooklyn this week. News
from Florida is to the effect that the acreage planted III
srawbc rc is not large, but that the vines are loaded
with fruit. ont IN California just now strawoefTIe'
are pcntIful and are served daily at the hotels
In two weeks more people who have been con-
Thinning themscvc, to Lenten FISH diet Will DC ao"
10 indulge in meat to their hearts content aean-
time the bad weather and tho demand keep the prices
Of fsh high. striped bass were selling III Fulton
Market yesterday FOR 30 and 40 cent; pound otler
kinds of fish remain about they were last week.
There are no moro oregon salmon to be had smerS
cost 20 cent, "A pound green turtle, 20 cents "hlt;
perch 10 cents: weakfsh II cents; WhtefSh'
l. cents: GELS ; cents founders 10 cents haIout, ~
cents: haddo,l. : cents. live cod 10 cents, pNchns'
Il cents herring. cents; pckcrcL Is cents wmte-
bait - cents, salmon trout II cents and black pass
l. cents. ,calloIs have dropped from - to 81 20
gallon however, while tho supply Of prawns rom
Feruandna continue, and the price stays at -
"A gallon Harl crabs = cents each ana s0iO cIahS
30 cent, hundred
North Carolina shad sell at 81 for and 80 cents
for bucks.
The supply Of butter Is still running behind the day
consumption and the public eating stock which mas
been held in rcfigerators and cehouses for severd!
months. though paying more than they are accustomod
Ia pay FIR lrc-h butter Good ncah Du'teF' fanny
state, Penn-y vanL and Western creamery. costs ~
and 10 cents pound. state dairy butter sells LOT
ft.fp huf IL
for 80 cents. Two year old butter costs 20 10 -
cent, pound.
beside, the many steamers on their way TO inc
Tinted states with foreign fruits there are about
dozen aug vessel, heading for these shores with about
10000 boNc, eli lemon, and $4,000 boxes OF oranges
ON board Eight oi these vessels arr bound for tlis
mort ~ that there Viii be dearth of fruit even after
The Florida crop cca-cs 10 come mp from the SOUTH
r.r not far slant now. II j. said also that there
are still about 3 800 carload, Of California oranges 10
lee Slipped here. There reached this city recently
from California 4 carload OF apples containing loo
loxc, Of Ncwtown Wppu~ 100 boxes oi "lhe''p' anu
loo boNe, Of winter prarnalus. The fruit was OF
good quality and reached here IN line cond!tlon lheSo
appic, came from the northern part Of California
,,I,r, il i, said the finest apples the Pacihc Coast
,c and were II not for the high freight profitable
lu,iucs, might be done shipping them 10 ms mar
L,t Ben Dayi, apple, may bc had al retail IN uS
CITY for ~ and s- - barr,l Winc>aps for F5 % ana -
aud Northern spies for - 81. Inc ltft lHdI dPP'O'
have not been higher in this year Of unprecedented
scarcity IS largely due to the abundance ana eA-
ccicncc Of the orange crop. In few instances snip
mcts Of Calto fruits to the East have oeeh &c
h,ci by the disastrous wl>houto on tile southern
Pacific Railroad
Lovers of peaches, and that means about everybody
will lie g4d Ia know that the latest reports from the
Delaware Peninsula, the great source OF The peach
supply Of This city, are that the prospects Of IA good
cl,,p were never better THAN at present Tile largest
! peach growers say that II II will keep cold for TWO
weeks mon, without any frOsts N April tremendous
| c,,p Of pcach,-, will bc the result Anyhow tho
melancholy failure OF last year l. not likely 10 oe ro
pe,tcd. 49,, .,... nj, ,.onr,ia
where. IL /, said. more acres nave Oceh pIdh'eu III
watermelon, than W,,s ever known before.
Down ia VI ->is,ppl peach ana PUN trees HaNo
been ia li.l bloom Tor ten DAYS. ., ,
Heavy shipments 81 celery are coming by Faih dhu
steamer from the south Ia the line OF vegetable, ihc
prices quoted by The Tribune last saturday sun RUE.
Cheap cabbage may Dc expected sooa, a. tIo oVVP III
Florida thl. scaauu l. said to be enormous.
EnLli,h hOth0u-e grapes cost 80 pound
The prices OF steaks, cuts ana chops remain Prs'
- and so by the carcass, - 30 FOR hluqarHls an"
~ 30 for forequarttr,. Porterhouse steak costs -
cents a pound prime rib ruast 20 cents. p0rterlloINe
/ r,,,t - cents, -irl5n steak 20 cents, round bono
steak l. cents lit bone STEAK ~ cents lys4 runP
bccf H. cent, help roast II cents, leg OF beef CENTS
file, 80 cents plate Corncd cents, rulnp cOrle' ID
cents oXails 10 cents beef liver 10 cents, ana beer
Kidney, - cents. Veal chops cost - cents pound
oin veal - cents lcs veal 20 cents breast veal ID
cont, shoulder veal - cents veal outlets - cents
rib veal - cents iilct veal - cents. calls head 90
cents, calls liver 20 cents calls feet 10 cents anu
! sWCetbrcads % cents "A par