New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-18
PRICES ~ THE MARKETS.
GEORGIA wATERMELoNs ABUNDANT AND CHEAP
FISH MEATS AND VEGETABLES.

GEORGIA wATFRMELONs ABUNDANT AND CHEAP
FISH MEATS AND VEGETABLES.
In the provision market yesterday were great
abundance Of hne Georgia watermelons and
large variety Of Southern fruits and vegetables
The steamers arriving from savannah have brought
more watermelons this year than they have car
rted for five years. and they are cheaper now than
they have been for many years, big melons selling
a. Is % s. cents each.
Berries also remain cheap Blackberres cost
cents a quart huckleberres cents goosebeyies.
10 cents wberres 70 cents raspoerries 10 cents
and currants II cents a quart Muskmelons are
worth from 10 30 cents each; table apples, %
cents quart few crates Of Florida navel
oranges are in market and are selling from IS 20
% cents dozen. Lemons cost Is cents dozen;
p.neapples from TO 80 cents each red bananas
40 cents a dozen: yellow bananas. % cents dozen;
dollhouse grapes. 81 80 pound: Delaware grapes.
% cents pound: Niagara grapes. 60 cents ern all
basket: Tragedy and Burbank plums. 81 30 carrier;
fresh figs 81 50 dozen; green cocoanuts, ID cents
each: cherries IS to As cents a pound; manages, %
cents dozen grape fruit. % cents each; apricots
20 cents dozen: Florida peaches. 60 cents dozen;
new dates II cents pound, and this years crop
Of maple sugar Is cents pound
PHILADELPHIA capons cost 80 cents a pound; west
ern capons and slips % cents Philadelphia roast
ing chickens % cents; State roasting chickens. Is
cents; Philadelphia broiling chickens. 81 % pair;
State broers. 81 pair; breakfast oroilers, 10
cents a pound: Philadelphia fowl, "A cents state
fowl 70 cents salad fowl 10 cents: frozen Vermont
ducks IS cents; spring ducklings, 20 cents; YER
mont frozen geese, Is cents; Boston spring gos-
ings % cents; roasting turkeys. 20 cents; boiling
turkeys is cents
Wild turkeys are quoted at % cents a pound;
Philadelphia white squads. 50 a dozen and dark
squads s. 80; tame pigeons 81 so dozen; English
snpe, 90 dozen golden pIoVer - s uUSe',,
grass plover, 50 a dozen; snow pirds. ~ cents d
dozen: reedbirds. 10 cents TO 81 g dozen; English
ParTdss pa psT Gam aaa paTSg
Haif Of a carcass OF mutton costs Il cents a
pound hindquarter OF mutton 10 cents; forequar-
ter 10 cents; rack chops. % cents; English chops
news. ) cents each; half of lamb. IA cents pound
hindquarter OF lamb. Il cents forequarter Is Is
cents shoulder Of lamb 10 breast of lamb. 10
cents and loin chops 80 cents a pound. 49,.
plentiful: weakish is selling for Il cents pound
and porgies 5 cents; whitehsh cost - cents d
perch 70 cents: freshcaught salmon trout 10 cents
Southern Spanish mackerel 80 10 50 cents; iSrge
nebec salmon % cents; large live Holsters IS cents
small live Holsters l6 cents Long island kltgilsn'
but. . cents hadddock' cents. large dressed cells
cents small founders els u cents codnsh steak
Il cents large live Goldfish, Y cents small live cod
fish cents and market Goldfish. cents
Long Island tomatoes, ~ cents quart; turnins.
S cents esnis .sssso rSbar sSe
hnnch: radishes 8 bun for cents;
rorsine salad : cents a head green peas Is
cents q half-peck; new potatoes. 70 cents peck:
sweet potatoes 80 cents peck, peppers -
cents a dozen parsley. cents a bunch; okra,
10 cents a dozen; oyster plant, cents bunch;
mushrooms 80 cents pound, mint cents
bunch: lettuce 4 cents head; leeks. cents a
bunch. knot celery, cents egg plant Is cents
each; escarole salad. cents a head: dandelion
salad 10 cents a quart water cress. cents
bunch: chicory. cents head; chervil cents a
bunch; celery. Is cents root new green corn. p
10 Al cents dozen ears caulifower. - to ~ cents
a head: cucumbers. for cents: carrots. 20
cents dozen: red and white cabbage. 10 10 ~ cents
a head; beets ) cents bunch; string beans. 10
cents A quart: asparagus ~ 10 80 cents bunch
French artichokes - cents each. red, white and
yellow onions 10 TO 20 cents quart, and Spanish
onions, cents each.