New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-04
PRICES N THE MARKET.
MELONS PLENTIFUL. VEGETABLES CHEAPER AND
FISH ABUNDANT.

MELONS PLENTIFUL. VEGETABLES CHEAPER AND
FISH ABUNDANT.
The market Yesterday showed large assortment;
OF fine watermelons and muskmelons. Vegetables
are getting cheaper Poultry is cent or Two
dearer Fish IS plentiful and cheap.
Wate-melons arriving in this port two and
three times week and selling for 30 cents each.
Other prices are: Strawberries. Is cents a quart;
red bananas. 10 cents a dozen; yellow bananas. 20
cents Dozen; Niagara grapes 30 cents basket;
grape fruits. s. a dozen; pears. Is 10 50 cents a
dozen; pineapples Is TO 20 cents EACH Porto Rico
pineappes. 80 cents each; red and blue pums 20
cents dozen: mangOes. cents each; lemons 20
cents dozen. dollhouse grapes, % cents 10 s. 80 a
pound: table apples Y quart. huckleberrtes.
10 cents a quart, peaches. 80 70 = cents dozen;
gooseberries. y cents d quart, aprcots, 40 cents
dozen; blackberries. Il cents quart muskne.ons.
y 70 30 each: pulled figs. % cents a.
pound. and dates. IS cents.
In The vegetable market prices are: White turnips.
70 cents bunch garden tomatoes. 30 cents quart
crook-neck squashes cents each: white squashes,
cents each yellow and Hubbard squashes 10 cents;
sorre. Is a quart spinach. 20 cents hafpeck;
shallots Is cents quart. kale ~ cents halfpeck:
rnubarb cents bunch; radshes. cent bunch
retail ana wholesale p - 30 cents hundred, green
peas. 80 cents hah-peck. sweet potatoes 80 cents
a haf-peck potatoes 80 cents, and old potatoes,
Is cents. green peppers cents each parsley. 5
red AMI yellow onions. 10 to 80 cents quart, Span
ism onions cents each; okra, 10 cents dozen
mushrooms. 80 u - cents pound: mint cents a
bunch Boston lettuce cents a head; leeks. cents
knob celery. u cents stalk. kolraby. cents; all
varieties Of herbs cents; garlic. Is cents s;r.ng
eggplant. IS 90 % cents each canielon salad. 10
cents a quart. wafer cress. 4 bunch fine
table celery 80 TO 81 80 bunch; greencorn 30 cents
dozen. cranberres Is cents quart; caulitiower. Is
t. ~ cents head: cucumbers for 10 cents: chives
cents a bunch. carrots. cents bunch; red and
white cabbage. - cents head; beets. cents a
bunch wax and string beans. 10 cents a quar-. art!
chokes. - cents quart asparagus ~ 70 ~ cents a
bunch.
In the poultry market prices are WoodcockS
81 % pair iartr.dg 81 - black cock. D.. PhIla-
dr,ph!a whit SQUADS. 80 - a dozen. Philadelphia
dark squads. s. 81. tame pigeons 81 80. quail s.. Eng
sh snpe s. GO: Org sTlPe y cents. golden plover,
birds - cents: English partridge. 50 dozen. Egypt
ian quail. 81. fhilade phi;i br0.ng chickens 81 20
81 % pair breakfast broilers. 50 80 s. Dozen
chickens, q cents Philadelphia roasting. - cents.
slips and Western ctpors. p cents. Phi.ade phia
spring duck ings. % cents. Vermont ducks. frozen.
i cents. Boston spring gosings. g cents: nOngrel
geese. 10 cents. roasting turkeys ~ cents.
Vermont turkeys, % cents wild turkeys IS cents:
boiling turkeys. rs cents Philale pha fowl "A cents;
State row.. - cents and salad fowl, Il cents.
In the FISH market prices are: Fresh mackerel, %
ach. Long Island rock trout 50 cents pound:
Wild trout 50 cents medium bass. 3 cents: buefsh
10 backfsh. 10 cents buttertish. cents cod
fish steaks I2ie cents eels, y cents: founders.
fiukcs. ~ cents. haddock. cents. herring
cents. chicken haliDut % cents; Southern kngfish
10 HOLSTERS Il cents mOonfish. Is cents por-
gies 10 cents. kennebec sa.mOn, a. cents: spanish
rnackerel 80 cents native sheepshead q cents sos
cents skate, cents. fresh caught salmon front
Is weakfsh. cents, whitehall, % cents: white
cents frogs legs. 50 cents. crawfish 81 a hundred
and large soft crabs. s. 20 a dozen.