Evening journal., 1914-06-20
JAM AND JELLY MAY
BE scarce This YEAR
Second Crops OF Currants
and GooSeberries a
Failure
WATERMELONS
ON SOME STANDS

IN all the market, keen today with
the rain.quickened fragrance OF fruit
and flowers, one thing only is woebe-
gone and withcred The Delaware eur.
rants, that usually fairly glow them
selves into notice, are faded. wizened
and small beyond reason. This is their
last week, and though they are far
from tempting, they bring 20 cents a
quart. The marketman explains re-
gretfully that the last picking Of cur
rants and gooseberries has been done in
the county this week and that the Sec
ond crop was miserable failure.
That accounts for the sickly appear
ance OF the currants, but the goose
berries on the eve OF their departure
from market are surprisingly healthy
looking and well worth the 10 cents
box that they bring.
Everywhere on the stalls mountain
plums from the West Coast make
vivid splashes of red and purple, the
red ones so large that Il Is dificult
at a distance to distinguish them
from tomatoes. In both shades the
fruit is 10 cents the dozen. Small
plums not much larger than big cher
ries are 10 cents the dozen. The
price seems quite out Of proportion
to those who have sampled the re-
markably fine and very sweet flavor
of the fruit.
Red raspberries are out in greater
quantities than they have appeared
yet and, like black raspherries. cost
Is cents the pint box. Blackherries
OF prosperous dimensions still re-
main at their last weeks price OF Is
cents the quart.
June apples have at last arrived
as usual far behind schedule time
They are only for cooking purposes,
and they are almost microsposic in
size, yet the market man has no
trouble in selling them by the small
er fractions Of the peck A peck is
GO cents.
Cantaloupes in the medium sizes
still bring 10 cents apiece or are sold
in triplets at a quarter But far into
the centre Of the market there are
little gems" TO be found at s cents
apiece, SO sweet that the men dare
offer the purchaser a sample slice,
secure in the conviction that q sale
will follow every taste
New Castle county beets and car
rots disappear from the stalls IN
great quantities at the price Of
cents the bunch this week, while
roasting ears, though they are from
out of the State and still cost so
cents the dozen, are quite as popular
The cars are larger than they have
been End the big grain ears are be-
ginning to come in.
Spinach, fresh from the county, stays
at It's original price Of Is cents the
quarter peck, while tomatoes from out
of the State have three or four differ
ent prices. Fifteen, 20 and 30 cents a
dozen are prices on piles Of tomatoes
in various sizes found ON the same stall.
TO return to fruit for a moment,
there are crates OF extraordinarily large
TO be found with some of
the dealers, the bIackcst, sweetest and
largest berries that have been in the
market for years This particular
berry brings 25 cents the quart. while the
usual huckleberry brings Is cents the
box.
And then there a few Florida
here and there IN lonely
state. They may be had at 80 cents
apiece, but the supply, though linn
ted, is not strained by the demand.
The poultryman has good news for
The marketer this week His spring
chickens sell for 2S cents instead Of
last weeks 40 cents. His other prices
unchanged.