Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-25
FLOWERS IN MARKET
Displays Are Large and Varied
and Prices Cheap.
FEW LILIES OR VIOLETS
Every Other Spring-Time Blossom
Is in Profusion.
CONDITION OF FOOD PRICES
Poultry, Lamb, Veal and Pork Sky
High-Beef at Last Years Prices.
Vegetables and Fruit Cheap.

Floral displays in the markets to-
DAY are large and varied Plants and cut
flowers are unusually cheap. it is de-
! clared by the flower merchants
They are more plentiful than usual
Warm weather has assisted in forcing the
plants There are also more dealers in
the business apparently than ever.
The market is fairly gluuted with some
more attractive spring flowers Easter
) lilies, usually in great demand are not
quite so plentiful, although the supply is
large enough to meet the demand
Lilies and Violets Scarce.
Lilies are selling at from SO to 81 a
dozen. Plants are to be had at from 80
cents to So. There are not so many vio-
1 lets, and the prices charged are regulated
by the quality of the blossoms Spring
i flowers, such as hyacinths. jonquils mar
cissus and tulips are in great profusion
1onquils are particularly plentiful and UNI
usually cheap. selling at two punches for
= cents. Hyacinths are IS cents a dozen.
Carnations are quoted at IS cents and ST..
The display OF potted plants this season
is also unusually attractive. Demand is
as heavy usual. Baby rambler roses
make fine display, the plants being a
NDlid mass of blossoms, and big enough
/ for later service on the lawns and back
! yards. Such plants are quoted at from
1 70 cents to $50.
Spirea. azalea, hydrangea and lilacs
are also among the potted plants for the
Easter holiday Azaiea and hydrangea
are selling at from S1.lO to $40 "a plant.
Spirea is to be had as low as 50 cents,
the largest plants selling at about 81.
Prices of Foodstuffs.
If plants and flowers are reasona BILE,
, mn ola 10 do
{ saries of life. Beef prices are no higher,
however. than they were this time last
year Other meats are high. Fish is not
cheap and prices for poultry are soaring
An Easter dinner of roast lamb and
peas or with poultry as the piece de re-
sistance is something that only the
wealthy will be able to enjoy this sea son.
Turkeys at b cents pound is a value
unequaled in Washington for many years
An old hen, for boiling purposes, costs
= to % cents a pound, roast and broil-
ing chickens 80 cents and ducks are
quoted at % cents.
Meat dealers will not say beef lis ex-
ceptionally high. Pork products are high,
however, and there is no relief in pros
pect fresh ham for the Easter din
ner will cost 20 cents a pound. Smoked
hams are selling at 20 and 90 cents
5 Veal and lamb, dealers say, command
higher prices at this season of the year
than at any other time.
Fish in Demand.
There were attractive displays of fish
In the markets this morning. Demand
for all kinds Of sea food was brisk. Lob
sters are plentiful at 30 cents a pound.
The great demand for soft crabs this
morning sent the price up to $3.50 a
Dozen hard crabs selling at 35 cents.
l Crab meat was IL demand at 40 cents a
quart.
Not many black bass are i'm market
Rock are plentiful at 20 and % cents,
while shad sold at from so, cents to 81 80
each.
Perch are plentiful at Is and % cents
and saltwater fish are to be had at about
the usual prices Spanish mackereI are
IN demand at ~ cents pound and
salmon steaks are selling at % cents.
There is no scarcity of fruit and vege-
tables. Fancy apples, oranges, bananas.
grape fruit. pineapples and Strawberries
are displayed on the benches There are
vegetables of all kinds and descriptions.
New peas are sl25 a peck. From south
ern points dealers received cauIifioWer
cucumbers, new beets, new potatoes
celery, string beans. tomatoes and other
vegetables. and are able to make at
tractive displays and sell their products
at what they termed reasonable prices
Fishing Steamer Brings Cargo.
Good Friday has made the demand for
fresh fish of all kinds exceptionally brisk
The wholesale market at the 18th stree,
wharf was busy pla00 until after noon
today. The supply on hand was ample
to meet the demand
There were more Potomac and bav her.
ring on sale than at any time this season
The menhaden fishing steamer G. w
Edwards, with about 10000 herring
aboard. arrived here this morning from
the Great Wicomico river. With receipts
from Old Point, the total receipts for the
day are swollen to about $4,000 fish
This is the first time in the history OF
the local fish wharf that big fishing
steamer from Chesapeake bay has
brought fish here.
The total receipts of shad were about
4000. Herring are selling at CSC pei
hundred: shad at SOS to $50 per hun.
dre6 for roes and $25 to $50 for bucks