New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-23
PRICES ~ THE .MiRKEI&

FRESH SOUTHERN VEGETABLES LATE AND
sCARCE-A FISH DIET EXPENSIVE.
The marketmen say that the season for early
Florida vegetables is from four to six weeks late
this year. owing to the great freeze early In Feb
ruary which killed all the young plants and made
it necessary TO reset and begin over again Just
now the demand is largely supplied from cuba.
bermuda and from Europe. But the revolu-
tionary movement In cuba is interfering with the
shipments OF vegetables from that island. which
ere chiefly the crop OF potatoes, and In conse-
quence Havana potatoes are scarce AMI high.
costing 20 cents a haf-peck bermuda potatoes
bring the same price the Cuban product.
Green peas are selling for 81 - half-peck, and
strngbeans can, hardly be found at all Imported
French chcory costs IS cents head, while the do
nestle article be- had for ) cents a head. From
California caulower comes that sells for 80 TO %
cents a head Usually at this season Florida to-
rnatoes are TO be had: now the supply is almost en-
tlrey from Boston hothouses, costing % cents
pound. French artlchokes are - cents each. As
paragus costs s. bundle; Jerusalem ar;ichokes are
10 cents quart: Savoy cabbagrs, - cents a al.
and red and white cabbages. 10 and ~ cents; Span
ish onions are ) cents each brown and green kae,
% cents half-peck; cucumbers. l.. % and % cents
EACH oyst plants two punches for - cents; Brus-
sells sprouts % cents a quart; radishes, ) cents
bunch. young carrots, cents a bunch; dandeion
salad - cents quart; cranberres. % cents quart;
table celery = cents a head 81 30 for large bum
die: white onions , cents quart: parsley. cents
a bunch: garlic. - cents bunch Boston lettuce.
10 cents "A head: watercress cents a bunch: esca-
role 10 cents "a head fictitious 10 cents quart:
summer squashes and cymlins from the West
Indies. 10 to 20 cents each Southern tomatoes, 20
cents a pound: rhubarb. ~ cents a bunch; yellow
and white turnlps. - cents half-peck. and egg
plants. 40 to 50 cents each.
Mushrooms are worth - cents and 81 a pound.
Strawberries sell at wholesale for 81 % box and
81 - box at retail.
Fresh eggs are - cents dozen in some places.
and - for % In other localities. Frstclass
Western creamery butter was never cheaper. A
two-pound brick OF Illinois butter can be had for
80 cents.
Prices OF fish remain at what seem TO be ex-
cesslve and unreasonable figures. Large live lobsterS
cost I'm Fulton Market p cents pound; dressed
cells - cents pound; pompano. . TO 30 cents;
Mesh blueish. y cents a pound; southern Sleeps
head. IL cents pound; market cod and haddock.
i cents pound. and goldfish steak, l2l2 cents; live
goldfish are ~. cents chicken habut. - cents. and
large halibut. Is cents: herring. cents; Southern
klngfsh 30 cents North Carolina roe shad. W cents
each and bucks - cents: shad roes are 10 cents
pair: small founders 10 cents pound, and native
Spanish mackerel - cents n pound.
Fishing vessels from the fishing grounds off Hat
teras report that the cold weather killed all the
food usually found In higher ATTITUDES by Spanish
mackere and in consequence these ish made for
the Gulf Stream this spring.