New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-28
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
rTNT SCARCE AND HIGH-FRUIr FROM THE wEsI
:NDIrS-PEACHEs AND CHERRIES.

.NDIES-PEACHES AND CHERRIES.
There Is scarcity of fish in the markets TINS week.
and many popular denizens OF the lakes and ocean are
hard TO find and cost pretty figure when oo'aheu.
Market cod steaks sell for II IL cents pouho' anu
the whole Ash at cents pound while there aie ie"
live cod TO be had at all. Sheephead from CesapNc
Lay are coming In and cost 30 cents pound sHeeP'
head from Albcmarlc Sound and contiguous "ae'7 n0
% cents. The last OF stad Is coming Hohi .''o
Kenncbec, Connecticut and North rivers, wn'e ie"
are still brought in from the Delaware Inc rocs se
for 81 and 80 cents each and the bucks from 30 " "
ccnts shad roes may be had for 30 cents pair.
Fresh mackere which ought to be abundant at inns
season. and cost from 20 TO W cents e"o"'
Salmon from the PenobscOt and kennebec rlVers ao
worth IS to 40 cents pound Long Island khgrsh %
cents; founders. 10 cents porgies ana cents ica
snappcrs Ii cents sole, 10 cents; sea bass ~ anu
II IL cents weakish 10 cents; whitehall ~ ceh'''
white perch Is cents; striped bass, 20 and 20 cents
hack bass. 20 cents; blmcfsh and 10 cents; black
fish and 10 cents and burcrfsh, 10 cents pound.
Freshcaught long Island cultivated brook trout sell
for 81 pound and wild Cannda brook trout 20 Genus.
Spanish maclserel 80 cents pound Marv'ahd soi'
cribs. rs cents to III 80 dozen; hard crabs % Il
hundred crab meat, 40 cents pound frogs Iees' w
cents and green turtle, 20 cents pound
Eyynlonts from New-Orleans cost 20 cents each'
New Jersey rlmbarb sells for cents a bunch' not
house tomatoes are 40 cents a pound; asparagus i.
cheap Mt 10 and 25 cents bunch; string oeai, niiu
butter beans cost 40 cents peck; hothouse cauino"
crs IS to 40 cents each Havana peppers 10 GEMS q
dozen: Southern cucumbers 60 cents dozen I''
tabs fresh from the miniature market gardens OF New
yor,, CITY 1 cent bunch new beets from Bermuda o
.ents n ouart new cabbage from the Norfolk truck
coriens and 10 cents head green peas are peh'l
full at 30 cents peck: summer squash costs anu ~
cor,s oocb neyy turnips are cents BUNCH ana Der
nluda onions, S2 30 crate
GosinVs from Rhode Island sell In Fulton Market
for 40 cents pound
The tropical fruit season Is now at its heght' anu
the frulters are sailing into port nearly every day au
ed down with cargoes Of pneappes and bananas NO"
T. the time for thrifty housewives to preserve pine
appes small, ripe pines excellent FOR ths pur-
po,c can be had at II 30 dozen. The finest pine
apDcs are those that from Porto Rico; they are
very large, weigh from 10 pounds, and sell at ~
cents each for the best just so, the best bananas
arc the large yellow that come from the SEhu
Of lanes: they sell for 20 and - cents Dozen Cai-
orn,a cherries are more plentiful and be had Tor
10 cents n pound. Florida peaches are also making
unite show and sell in the Broadway fruit stores i)i
40 and 90 cents quart for the Bdwclls, ana 30 ana
~ cens for the Peen tn variety. Strawberries nearly
all show the effects Of the cold and backward splhs,
for while they red and atIacuve 10 the eye, 'hc
frt Is vet too green perfectly to satisfy the consumer
MARYLAND and Delaware berries bring - and 20 cents
a quart flnck Hamburg grapes from Long ls.ahd
hothouscs cost az 30 and - pound Esta Beure
nars re worth % cents each Mnlaga grapes Dilng as
nigh rs II n pound green lines are % cents uo%en gu
N.s,ina oranges 30 to 30 cents uoAeh, anu
Valencias IS for % cents. GOOD blood oralses are
worth 80 to 80 cents dozen. , -,
sucorc,rcd ham is II cents pound. CoTled nam
IS also IL pound: CINCINNATI ham Is cends
n pound Wcstphallan ham costs 33 cents a pound
boiled homeless nam Is 10 cents pound BIeahlnst
bacon IL cents pound. BreHhfast pacoi' poiI
less costs 10 pound Dry sailed bacon Is worth
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