New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-23
PRICES IN The MARKETS

A BACKWARD SEASON IN THE soUTH-srRAw-
BERRIEs-sMoKED AND DRIED FISH.
Cold weather IN the South has kept back the season
for spring vegetables from that region fully three
weeks and kept the prices up correspondingiy high
But the indications that II will not be long before
an abundance OF green stun will I'll The markets,
brought up from South Carolina, Georgia and Florida
by the coas. line steamers and shipped North by fast
express trains. Northern dollhouse gardens stin find
ready market for their products. New7JersY
sulnach Is In the market, and sells for 40 cents
a quart: asparagus from Charleston costs 80 and rs
coats bundle southern peas are worth from d
TO 81 % peck string beans from the same section
cost 80 cents quart, and fresh butter Deans
80 cents q quart; Charleston lettuce sells for
cents head, and Southern romaine lettuce 10 cents;
celery from the market gardens Of louisiana costs 10
cents root new cabbages from Florida are worth 10
and - cents a head; Long Island dollhouse breakfast
radishes cents bunch; egg plant from Key West ana
Havana can be had for from 20 TO 80 cents ench'
new potatoes are IS cents q peck; new Bermuda
beets 30 cents dozen new carrots from Flof1da ~
cents quart, and new carrots from South CarohnS
Is cents quart; spanish onions are from 70
10 coats each: Southern caulfowers sell from 40
IN 20 cents a head and imported French caulihowers
60 cents Small South American green peppers used
in salads and sances can be had for 40 cents
quart; large green peppers from CUBA arc oo GEMS
dozen; southern rhubarb, 10 cents bunch seehess
French cucmnbers are TO be had at 40 cents EACH
and Boston dollhouse cucumbers from 10 to % cents
each: green okra from Cuba sells for rs cents
hundred. and dandelion green's from Long Island at
10 cents a ouart In the way OF soup green's there
ara foundj An the market green tarragon al
Is cents a bunch, chevrl al ~ ce"S
bunch and dried shallots 90 cents quart; parsley
is cents bunch, chnory 10 "o's
head leeks 5 cents a bunch, soup celery Genus
bunch, chives 10 cents bunch, and mint at cents
bunch.
Mushrooms sell for 81 pound
In the fish market one get crayflsh for 81 hun-
dred. New frogs legs are 35 cents pound. haN-
shell crabs are - so hundred Prawns are 81 %
gallon. Scallops are 81 a gallon. slad roes are "
cents pair. oyster crabs are g. so a quart LOCK
pin salt herring 80 40 box. Dgby herring cost
10 cents IA bunch. Yarmouth bloaters are 90 cents
Dozen Kippered herring cost 60 cents dozen. Eng
llsh sprats cost 10 cents bunch. sardnes are from
10 10 rs cents box. smoked HALIFAX salmon N 10
cents a pound. New Nova Scotia smoked salmon Is
so cents a pound. Smoked sturgeon IS 20 cents
pound Finnan Haddies Il cents pound Smoked
eel, are % cents a pound Smoked halibut costs 20
cents Il pound. Scaled herring Is 80 cents box.
smoked herring Is cents box Smoked mackereI
(, % cents 4 pound. Potomac herring cost 81 20 a
box Dutch herring 81 35 keg. salt salmon
costs 20 cents pound Georges salt cod Is 10 cents
pound Salt herring 81 80 kit. salt macSrei
costs 30 30 a kit.
Connecticut River Shad can now be had TOR 81 eacn.
North River roe shad worth 80 to rs cents EACH and
the bucks 80 cents. Some fresh mackerel caught on
the Jersey coast sold for 81 80 each.
strawberries for steady Diet are still beyond tho
reach Of any but people with substantial purses Yet
the .easonable shortcake has nourshed for some time
I'm downtown restaurants where business men 60 for
their MONDAY meal we begin TO furnish shortcake
Late I'm March, said restaurant keeper yesterday st
- cents plate. when the berries in plate will cost
tt-tea thats Trit ppVer al
Of a plate when berries get cheaper, hoping 10 make
UP at the latter end OF the what We lose at the
beginning But it Is strain this season. for the
price has kept up high that have lost money on
every plate Of strawberry Shortoake we have sold IN
the last month"; South Carolina berries are bringing
30 and 80 cents a quart. and Northern dollhouse ber-
rlcs 81 cupful.
California Esta Bcurrc pears from cold storage
houses cost to 30 cents each. and Winter Neis 81
a dozen. Northern spy apples can be had
for ~ 30 q barrel. Black Hamburg grapes
are al q pound Catawaba grapes 40 cents
for two and enc half pound boxes and pink Almeras IS
cents and 81 "A pound California navel oranges sell
for co and 70 cents dozen and Florida Indian River
navcls for 10 cents and 81 IS. When Mediterranean
fruit Is coming In the sweet american orange leaves
the market MesSna blood oranges cost 80 cents
dozen and small sourish valencas be ha a cheap
almost a, cmons-twenty for % cents. Cuban pine
apples are plentiful and cost % to 80 cents each.
Grape fruit Is very popular as a spring tonic, tey
cost 10 and 10 cents each
The best Elgn creamery butter costs 25 and 80
cents pound. Fancy Philadelphia butter IS 40 cents
"A pound. New Delaware dairy butter sells for from
% TO - cents pound. Western creamery buffers
range from Is 10 - cents pound. domestic cheese
4, II cents "A pound. Old English dairy cheese Is 20
cents pound and imported Swiss cheese IS 25 cents
n mound. Sago cheese Is 90 cents pound fresn
Long Island eggs are 20 cents dozen. western eses
sell for about 10 cents dozen; "oose ss sn for
selling for cents EACH and ducks eggs sell ten luz
20 cents. a, N
Forequarters OF southern spring lamb sell for 81 ~
and HEADQUARTERS are about each. These VIII Weisn
about 1--WE or six pounds To the quarter Hindquaters
of winter lamb are - cents pound and foequaTlers
sre L. IL cents pound. Calves uvers are Ilpni
% to 30 cents a pound. Calves brains are ccn.s
each oxtas are 10 cents each and lambs tongues
are 40 cents dozen.