New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-08
PRICES N THE MARKETS.
WARNER WEATHER MAKES LEMONS DEARER-
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

WARNER WEATHER MAKES LEMONS DEARER-
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Owing 10 the excessive heat lemons are getting
dearer The fruit up 30 by the box since the
warm wave in. and are now selling at retail for
20 cents a dozen.
Delaware peaches cost IS cents a small basket:
Kentucky peaches. 20 dozen: Jersey peaches.
20 cents basket and Georgia peaches Is cents a
quart.
japanese prunes cost 30 cents a dozen: Malaga
grapes. 20 cents pound: Tragedy and Burbank
plums % cents a dozen Niagara grapes. 80 cents A
small ba sket: Jenny Lind muskmelons. to 10 cents
each; Georgia termelons % 70 60 each: Della
ware grapes. 30 cents basket hothouse grapes. 50
cents pound currants In crates OF thirty quarts.
FOR preserving 81 80 to 81 %, and at retail. cents
quart: grape fruit. Is each; table apples. 80
cents a dozen: plneappes. 10 70 81 cents each:
oranges % 10 70 cents a dozen: pears 80 cents a
dozen mangoes % cents dozen California cherries,
40 cents pound: raspberres 10 cents pint; Wild
goose pluns IS cents dozen; backterr.es. 10 cents
quart huckleberres. 70 cents quart; red bananas.
95 cents a dozen yellow bananas. 20 cents dozen:
green cocoanuts y cents each: new dates cents
pound and fresh figs so cents pound
Egvptian quail can be had for 81 10 dozen Ph.la-
delphia white squads. 81 90 a dozen Philadelphia
dark squads 50 50 dozen: tame pigeons. 81 % a
dozen: English snipe. 50 40 dozen; Englsh par
trdges 81 so a dozen; golden povers. 81 % dozen;
grass plovers SO dozen: snowbrds % cents dozen:
reedbrds o. cents a dozen: German partridges 81 ~
a rair: corn snipe, 80 cents Dozen and woodcock.
81 % a pair
PHILADELPHIA capons sell for % cents a pound;
Western capons, p cents; Philadelphia spring
roasting chickens, q to 80 cents a pound; State
roasting chickens IS TO 20 cents pound; breakfast
broers IS cents: Vermont ducks, frozen, IL cents;
enring aucklings IS 10 p cents Vermont geese
frozen l6 cents: Boston spring goslings, "A cents
wild mongrel geese IS cents boiling turkeys 10
cents: roasting turkeys % cents; wild turkeys %
cents: Philadelphia fowl IS cents: state fowl u
cents. salad fowl. II cents. and ceery-fed duck
lngs q cents pound
Young roasting pigs are 81 TO 81 10 each
Reef kidneys cost 10 each; veal sweet
breads 81 pair; calves feet 10 cents eacn; calves
heads co cents each: prime rib roast - cents
pound: porterhouse steak. q cents; porterhouse
roast % cents: sirloin steak. Y cents ana Del
monico steak 30 cents pound
Long Island trout sell for - cents a pound; red
snappers 90 cents pickerel. Is cents fresh-caught
salmon trout IS cents Canada trout. 30 cents; wild
brook trout Is cents; Kennebec salmon q cents
striped bass II cents; pan bass. II cents; butterish
N cents: weakhsh s cents porgies : cents white
6sh ~ cents: large white perch. IL cents small
" hite perch. u cents; Southern Spanish mackere
% cents large sea bass 10 cents small sea ,r bass
sters Y cents; live cod. 10 cents market cod, s
cents; cod steaks Is cents large dressed cells. IS
cents and small dressed ees u cents; Long Island
kingtsh 50 cents: chicken halibut Is cents. large
halibut, q cents; black bass. p cents. and had
French artchokes cost % cents each: Jerusalem
artichokes Is cents quart; Lima beans. 80 cents
half-peck Jersey oyster plant, 10 bunch ro-
maine salad cents bunch; sweet potatoes 60 cents
a peck; new potatoes, I cents quart. peppers. 20
cents a dozen: parsley cents bunch; okra 60 cents
a hundred. mushrooms. 90 cents pound. mint. 4
cents a bunch. lettuce. cents head leeks. cents
each. escarole salad. cents a head dandslon
saad. cents quart; watercress. cents a bunch
chlcory cents a head. chervil cents bunch table
celery. 10 cents 70 81 30 bunch. green corn
q 10 20 cents dozen, cucumbers. three for cents
N a
dozen; red and white cabbage. TO 10 cents a head
new beets. cents bunch: string beans cents
quart: asparagus. IS 10 70 cents bunch; Southern
tomatoes 20 cents a pound turnips. 20 cents half
peck. and spinach. ~ cents a half-peck