New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-15
PRICES ~ THE MARKETS.
4 MIDSUMMER ABUNDANCE OF FRUITS. SEA FOOD.
EOMI.S AID NEGETA RIES.

\ MIDSUMMER ABUNDANCE OF FRUITS. SEA FOOD.
FOWLS AND VEGETABLES.
The midsummer abundance in the provision mar
kets continues to be their most noticeable feature.
Prices except for lemons have not been affected by
the great hot
In the fruit market watermelons from the South
are now selling at p to so cents each: selected
Delaware peaches 30 cents a box; Maryland
peaches 60 cents a small basket; Kentucky peaches
20 cents a dozen, and Jersey peaches. So cents a
basket. Lemons selling for 30 cents a dozen
retail or s. q box Wholesale Delaware grapes cost
20 cents basket: Moores early grapes 81 cents:
Niagaras 30 cents. dollhouse grapes. IS cents a
mound Currants i'm crates OF twenty-five quarts
for preserving can he had for 81 80 wholesale and
cents quart retail: Tragedy and Burbank plums
cost 81 cents dozen: japanese prunes. % cents a
dozen; Jenny Lind muskmelons. } 10 20 cents each
era pefru Is to % cents each: pineapples. 10 TO ~
cents each: table apples, % cents quart mangoes,
20 cents "A Dozen pears. 80 cents dozen; oranges.
81 cents dozen; fresh figs, 81 cents a pound: red
bananas 70 cents dozen. and yellow bananas. 70
cents a dozen. California cherries sell for 40 cents
n pound raspberries cost II cents pint: wild
goose plums - a dozen backberries. 10 cents
n quart: huckleberries. Is cents quart: green
cocoanuts. 10 cents each; new dates. 10 cents a
pound and this years crop Of maple sugar Is
cents pound.
In the Fulton Market Long Island kingfsh cost %
cents pound Long Island brook trout 30 cents; red
snappers 20 pckerel 10 cents; fresh-caugh mt
salmon trout. Ii cents; Canada trout. 80 cents Wild
brook trout, - cents: Kennebec salmon, il cents:
striped bass Is cents pan bass 10 cents buttersh.
cents weakfsh. cents: porgies cents; whiiefsh,
10 cents large white perch. Is cents: small white
parch 10 cents: chicken hslibu l6 cents. large hall
bur q cents large black bass. Is cents small black
bass 10 cents: haddock cents; Southern Spanish
mackere % large sea bass 70 cents small sea
bass cents: large live holsters IS cents. small
Il
cents cod steak. - cents. large dressed eels IL
cents: small dressed eels. Is cents pound. hard
she'll crabs cost 81 hundred soft-shell crabs. so
cents dozen: frogs legs. 45 cents pound
Philadelphia capons sell for 2s cents a pound. and
Western capons % cents pound: Philadelphia
spring roasting chickens. % cents pound. State
roasting chickens 20 cents: breakfast broilers, lS
CENTS Vermont ducks. frozen Is cents. spring duck
lngs 20 10 % cents Vermont geese. frozen. Il cents;
Boston spring gosngs, % cents, Wild mongrei geese.
% to 80 cents: boiling turkeys II cents roasting
turkeys q cents. wild turkeys. y cents. Philadel-
mia FOWL is cents. fowl II cents. salad fowl.
II cents; celery-fed ducklings. S cents Egyptian
quail. 81 10 dozen Pnliadelphla White SQUADS IS o.
a dozen; Philadelphia dark squads. 81 ~ dozen.
tame pigeons. 81 30 a dozen hnglish snpe, - 20 a
dozen English partridge. So ~ dozen golden plover.
81 30 dozen: grass pover, 50 dozen: snowblrds. 30
cents dozen; reedoirds ~ cents dozen Germs
woodcock 81 30 pair. Scotch blackjack. 81 10 pair.
and English pheasants 81 20
french artichokcs sell for % cents each Jerusa-
lem arichokes Is cents a quart mushrooms cost
90 cents pound mint, cents a buncn' lettuce
cents "A head: eeks. 4 cents bunch. knOb-ceery,
cents. eggplant. 10 10 q cents each escarole salad
cents head dandelion salad. cents quart:
water cress. cents bunch chicory. cents head:
chervil cents bunch. new beets. cents "A bunch:
string beans, cents "A quart. asparagus. 20 to ~
cents bunch. Southern tomatoes. % cents pound
turnips. ~ cents half-peck; spinach. 10 cents a
half peck: table celery. 20 cents to $50 bunch:
green corn. % TO 81 cents dozen: cucumbers. two
for cents caulihower. 35 to 70 cents head. car
rots. 20 cents dozen red and white cabbage. 10 TO
20 cents a head. lima beans. 30 cents a haf-peck
Jersey oyster plant. l. cents bunch. sweet pota-
toes, 60 cents peck new potatoes cents A quart
peppers. 20 cents dozen. parsley. cents bunch.