New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-14
PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
Strawberries AT 81 A CUP-sPRING LAMB AND
HoTHOUsE VEGETABLES.

UOTHOUSE VEGETABLES.
1t produces queer sensation In pehoiuer 10
stand out in the temperature which New DIRK mas
been blessed with this week and gaze through 'he
frosted window panes Of Broadway fruit store al he
lavish display VI dollhouse and tropical fruits inside
Hut the most con spcuous all the summer products
In the fruit store windows at present are the straw
berries. Some from Florida and sell Tor - ana
So % q quart others from New-Jersey ho'houses
and can be had Tor 81 cup There are sixteen berries
in cup. If ones eyebrows are lifted In surprise ~
these figures the fruitseller Will remark that despite
tho Storm the strawberries cheaper than they We're
five days ago, when they brought 90 a cup.
Among the dollhouse importationS from England are
eros Colman grapes at 50 80 n pound and asparagus
The STALKS of the latter over zoo; long and pure
white bunch OF fifty stalks is sold by the whole
sale dealers at $40. the retailers divide them into
smaller lunches which they sell FOR r.
Spring lamb is another seasonable luxury which
can be had now. Probably not over two dozen have
reached the city vet and there is no particular price
paid for them selling by the from So to $40. ac-
cOrdng TO the size.
In Fulton Market the oyster dealers all predict
famine in this popular she'll fish, unless the weather
moderatcs soon. All the inles and bays about New
jersey and Long Island in which lie the oyster DedS
which form the chief source Of supply Of this mar
ket are frozen over. Even the Chesapeake Bay.
which almost always be depended upon TO furnish
oysters TO New York when her nearby supply Is cut
or is also frozen this time and the dredges are
held fast in the ice. The packers AMI canneres OF
Baltimore. unable to get stock. have been compelled 10
close down. Here the wholesale dealers have put up
prices 81 a thousand, about so per cent. and the
retailers following suit Nevertheless the figures
eXtravagant yesterday for retail prices IN
Fulton Marriott ranged between 81 and So so hundred
All other kinds Of fish dear the wells IN many of
the fishing smackS freezing and making 1t almost I'M
possible for the fishermen bring their catch in alive
Large striped bass cost so cents and pan and medium
sizes % cents "a pound; black bass Is cents; large
bluefish. cents large bacz1ish, L. IL. and small
10 cents; market cod. s. cod steak. 5 and live
cod. L. 1-2 cents pound; dressed eels, Is,
and live eels % cents; founders. II IL
cents: paddock, cents. chicken halibut, 25 cents.
and large halibut 20 and % cents: live Holsters,
10 cents pompano % and 30 cents; pckorcl, Is
cents; red snapper. IL cents. Kennebec salmon.
% and So cents. and southern spanish mnckercl. -
cents q pound southern sheepSead sell for 30 cents
q pound: green smells Is and 20 cents; small sea
bass cents: fr, sh caught salmon trout Is cents.
and white perch, 10 and Is cents pound. south
ern shad are worth 60 cents and 81 % for bucks
and roes respectively whitehall is % cents pound
crab meat, 40 cents a pound; cravfsh beloved BIZ
the Gaul, 80 hundred: frogs legs, 40 cents
pound oyster crabs So quart, and scalopS so
TO 90 quart. treen turtle sells for % cents
a pound.
Fresh vegetables are more abundant and lower in
price for the season than before. thanks 10
improved transportation facilities from the south and
the rapid multiplication Of forcing houses in the North
Southern ripe tomatoes sell for 40 cents quart
green chives 10 cents a bunch; summer squash
from Cuba and Florida be had for b and 10
each: Norfolk spinach 20 cents halfpeck
and kale D cents head Cuban and Louisiana
egg plants cost 10 and % cents each rhularb from,
Long Island lighthouses brings 20 cents bunch hot
house dandeions 20 cents quart, l'iss'ls
sprouts 20 cents a quart caulih1Yers: 70 To- 30
Green peppers 30 and 40 cents dozen green
fictitious, 10 cents quart dollhouse parsley cents
a bunch dollhouse cucumbers go ana % cents each
Florida Romane lettuce 10 cents head and Boston
dollhouse lettuce three heads for IS cents and Roches
ter dwarf celery, Is and 90 cents bunch. Break
fast radishes 6 coats a bunch
The weather is still against the shipment OF eggs
and prices keep up. They retail all the way from
20 10 80 cents a Dozen Philadelphia print butter
costs 40 cents pound. and the best Elgn creamery
the Good Western creamery sells Tor IS cents
and state dairy butter at 2o and 80 cents pound