Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-18
THE SUNDAY DINNER.
Garden Products at Their Best, and Prices
Tending Lower.

Garden Products at Their Best, and Prices
Tending Lower.
Market basket filling is practically the
same in price as it was a week ago. The
week has been characterized by an exhuber.
ance of garden stuff 1t is rare season
when fruits are offered in such quantities
and with prices as low as they are at the
present time. Watermelons have been ar
| irving in such quantities of late that mar.
kets have been steadily seeking lower
level, and shippers are mourning over their
losses The number of melons received here
in the week past would require not less
than ten flrst-class locomotives to bring
them to the market, and when it is consid-
cred that Georgia Is now our chief source of
supply, it is evident that q large amount of
caloric has been consumed in bringing this
fruit to our tables.
In fruit lines we note the name of rasp-
berries and large receipts of blackberries
the past few days. The housewife who
failed to lay up raspberry jam week ago
has missed her opportunity for this season.
DAIRY products, poultry and vegetables are
the same in price as they were week ago.
At the fish stalls quiet weeks trade is re-
ported, as is to be expected at this time of
the year. Frogs are in short supply and
firm. Florists report the usual midsummer
dullness, with prices unchanged.
Following are latest retail prices of mar
ket basket filling:
MEATs-Best cuts of tenderloin steaks, sc per
10; sirloin. 1s92Oc; standing rib roast, 1s@2Oc;
lamb sc; leg of mutton 12Ic for hind quarter ana
sc for fore quarter lon Of mutton. 15c; lamb chops
2Oc; stewing pieces, &c per ~; veal roasts, 12s4
l5c per fb. and outlets 20c. Pork chops, l213c and
steaks, lOc, advance of &c per 10. which
VEGETABLES % "A AND io'f FRUIT f New eS'h homegrown
cabbage, l09I5c; potatoes, 9Gc per halt peck;
bermuda onions, 15c quart; yellow beans, oOc;
wax beans, sc quarter peck; squash 5dIOc apiece
bananas, 20G25c dozen; carrots SC a bunch: toma-
toes, lOc quart: homegrown peas, aOc per half
peck; lemons, 3040c per dozen: oranges 21lOc let
tuce &c per bunch; beets, l0c bunch: radishes,
bunch:cucumbers, apiece ;cherries lO6I2c quart;
green gooseberries and currants 1Oc quart; egg
plants, 15dalc: new homegrown celery lOc a
bunch, for 25c; raspberr1es, 12dl5c box: water
melons, l5d30c apiece: cantalOupcs, 301iOc apece.
homegrown caulifower, I0Gl5c apiece: blackber,
piles. 20c half peck: blackherries 10 to l2c a box
BUTTER AND EGGS-Ciood creamery zoe per IN.
fancy brands, 23c: choice country rolls l5c: good
cooking butter, l2c; fresh eggs, 20c per Dozen
PoCLTRY-Dressed chickens. 12 to l3c per III.
ducks, l3c to 15c per 10: turkeys, Ice ~
FISH-Following are the articles in this line on
the stalls with prices: Lake salmon 10 to lie: Cal
tfornia salmon, 35 to 40c per pound: white fish 12M
to 15c herring. pounds for DC: Spanish mackerel
20c per pound; buefish, 15c; habut 2Oc: rock bass
2jc lake trout, 123c Holsters, 20c; green sea turtle
20 TO sc. oysters: New York counts sI u ner gal
Ion; smelts 2Oc a pound: shad 81 Cd 10 81 S each.
scallops 20c pound. Mackinaw trout l2Isc per
pound soft shell crabs, 81 90 TO 81 25 dozen: frogs
S2 90 dozen.
FLowERs-La France. 81 25 per dozen: Mermets
81 . per dozen; Brides, 81 25 per dozen yellow and
white roses, 81 90 per dozen: Bennetts Al OO ner
bany, 81 % per dozen: heliOtrope, SOC per dozen:
Harrisii, &c each: hostess 81 . dozen. nansies
21c; water lilies, &c dozen: sweet meas lOc a
dozen; Senator Wootten roses, 81 25 dozen