Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-21
CHOICE BLOOMS GRACE
| Center MARKET STALLS
Space Devoted to Array of
Easter Offerings-Prices
of FoodStuffS.

| Center market today resembled a
| huge bower of blossoms rather than
| prosaic place where people buy things
to eat-meat, and vegetables, and fish,
and poultry. and the like. Cut flowers,
blooming plants. garlands bouquets.
tall vases filled with jonquils, sweet
peas, tulips, lilacs and hyacinths,
bowls of violets, pots of blooming
| azaleas. spirea; other pots of creamy
| white callas. or dainty. fragrant Ber-
| muda lilies. the special flower of Easter
all of these and others that a mere
newspaper man cannot attempt to
! name, but may only look at and admire.
turned the huge market place into
something that looked more like place
decked for a wedding.
| Mos. Of the stalls, too. displayed
case or a pot or two of blossoms; even
| the stalls where beef and pork and NUT
| ton are purveyed to hungry Washing
and the approaches to the big market
| place were lined with avenues OF lilies
and countless other sorts of f1owery evil
dences of the advent OF Easter.
Cut Flowers in PROPULSION.
| Cut flowers of every sort. priced from
a quarter a bunch to several dollars;
blooming Easter lilies in the same range,
| and all the other flowers at prices from
a few cents to many dollars were to be
| had, and that table. next Sunday, that
does not bear its decoration of blooms
| will be poor. indeed, if price enters into
| consideration.
week of brisk trade was reported to-
| day by stall owners at Center market.
| following last weeks duh business. Few
| changes in any lines were noted. all vege-
| "a hes mainf q ming the nricpS that have
| been current for the past few weeks,
and no changes being reported in retail
meat, fish. butter. egg or fruit prices.
| Spring lamb--the real kinds one of
| the few articles that shows a slight de-
| cline. Small forequarters were selling
| today at figure low as $50, with
| hindquarters bringing from s. up. Beef,
| pork, mutton and smoked meat prices are
absolutely unchanged in the past three
weeks, or more.
More plentiful supplies of Potomac sha1
have brought prices down a tr.f1e, and
fresh bucks today were retailing at %
cents each. with roe shad bringing 81.
as against S1.5O last week All other
varieties of fish remain at last week s
quotations.
No change whatever has occurred in
retail poultry prices in the past week,
though dealers say they expect prices to
stiffen trifle within few days. All re-
tail prices of poultry reported last week
were current today.
Butter Prices Unchanged.
Butter remains at the price established
more than a month ago, but a continue
ton Of springlike weather. and conse
quent improvement of pastures. accord
ing to the dealers. will probably result in
a slight lowering of the prices shortly.
At present the best Elgin butter Is still
retailing at 45 cents pound, as 1t has
fn f,a mn WI nj
ranging down as low as 80 cents Strict
ly fresh selected eggs today brought p
cents dozen, the lowest mark reached
In the egg market since last summer. Or
binary country eggs retailed for as low
as two dozen for 35 cents on the country
line today, but quality was not super
fine.
The only addition to the vegetable line
today was some fine French artichokes,
which sold for 10 cents each. The price
Of tomatoes stiffened a trifie over last
weeks price, the best quality bringing
ID cents pound, or two pounds for p
cents today, as against Is cents last
week. Large quantities of tomatoes,
slightly soft, sold today at 10 cents
pound however. All other vegetables re-
manned today at prices previously quoted.
The same is true of all varieties of fruit
Fine strawberries brought % to 35 cents
box: oranges ranged from 20 to 30
cents a dozen; lemons from Is to %
cents a dozen. Grapefruit was a trife
lower today, first-class heavy selling for
as little as four for % cents, and the
price of other sizes ranging from cents
each to three for a quarter.