New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-27
A PEEP AT THE MARKETS.

In the markets yesterday large consignments Of
vegetables and fruit arriving. Both are get
ting cheaper daily. Fish and game about the
same in price and quantity.
VEGETABLES
French artichokes are % cents each: Jerusalem
artichokes, Is cents quart string beans 10 cents
quart. wax beams. 70 cents; beets. three punches
for - cents carrots. three punches for cents
chives. 10 cents bunch: cucumbers. l cent each
caulinower Is to IS cents a head; table celery, Is
cents to 81 70 bunch; watercress. cents escarole
salad. 10 cents; eggplant. to ~ cents each: garlic
> cents bunch; herbs. all varieties. cents
bunch: lettuce three heads for 20 cents mint four
punches for % cents; mushrooms. 20 10 80 cents
pound; oyster plant 10 cents a bunch: Yellow Hub
pers. cents each; sweet potatoes. II cents quart
new potatoes 10 cents quart; romsine salad 10
salad. 20 cents q half-peck .shallots. 10 cents a
quart; spinach. 2s cents half-peck; white squash,
cents haf-peck; tomatoes. 10 cents a pound
tarraGon 10 cents a pound, and peas. 30 cents
Table apples. % to % cents dozen lemons. 10
cents n dozen: bananas % cents a dozen; pineap-
pies. % TO 80 cents each: cocoanuts. 10 cents EACH
blackbcrres II a box: peaches 90 10 80 cents
a dozen grapefruit. 10 to 20 cents each: dates 10
cents pound; figs. 10 to 80 cents pound lines
Is cents dozen plums 60 cents basket; California
navel oranges. 10 cents a dozen: Jamaica oranges.
35 cents a dozen Messina oranges 30 cents dozen:
Messina blood oranges cents a dozen: California
blood oranges. 81 dozen: Antou pears. ~
cents dozen: Bartlett pears. 20 cents dozen:
Malaga grapes 81 cents pound: dollhouse grapes
81 - n pound watermeiors. Il to 80 cents e3ch:
gooseberres u cents box: muskmelons 70 ~
cents each.
Large bass sells for Il cents: pan Is cents; green
buefish II cents: large blackish IL cents: butter
FISH. 10 Genus: Long Island cultivated brook trout.
ST. wild 30 cents: carp cents. Goldfish. cents:
small dressed ecls II cents large Is cents; English
sole 10 cents: small founders. cents; large, II
cents; hukes. y cents: large fresh mackerel. 90
cents; medium Is cents: haddock cents pound;
chicken halbut. ID cents; large halibut. 20 cents
Long Island kinghsh % cents; Southern kingnsn,
- cents large liv. Holsters. Is cents porges, large;
10 cents: pckerel. IL cents; small red snappers,
20 cents Southern Spanish mackerel IS cents: Long
Island sheepshead 30 cents small sea bass. ~
cents; sole. cents; skate or rayhsh, cents;
freshcaught salmon trout. - cents; small weaknsn,
centsC whitehall. u cents: large soft craos. ~
cents dozen: medium. 80 cents. prawns, with
shells 81 80 gallon: turtle IL cents pound,
and pompano. p cents.
Philadelphia capons 81 cents a pound West.
ern capons - cents: Philadelphia spring roasting
chickens IL cents: State spring roasting chickens.
II cents: Philadelphia spring brong chickens, 81
a pair: State spring broiling chickens. SO cents a.
pair: Vermont ducks. Ii cents pound; spring
ducklings. 90 cents; Vermont geese frozen, 10
cents: Boston spring gosings. 20 cents; wild mon
grel geese 30 cents; boiling turkeys, II centa:
cents: State fowl. u cents: salad fowl 10 cent;
breakfast broilers. large. 81 - pair; Phadepn'e
squads. white. SO dozen; dark, 81; tame pigeons
81 dozen and roasting pigs. 81 30 eacn