Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-09

| in the season, receipts being heavy
enough to keep down the price of the
| Florida vegetable. Best quality peas
were quoted around $3.50 q crate, some
not in perfect condition selling slightly
lower. The past two days they were
cheap enough to bring retail prices
down to as low as 10 cents q pound.
Local dealers early this week received
the greatest variety of vegetables ever
known here at this season. Romano.
savoy, anise, broccoli, cabbage, escarole,
dandelion, chickory, kale and spinach
we're included in the shipments re-
ceived from Texas. presenting q wide
range from which to make selections.
Dandelion, fully 18 inches in length,
claimed attention Of persons who con-
sumo it, and chickory, another vege-
table used by many, also came in goea
condition. Both vegetables found sale
at SIPS and $3.50 a crate, curly pars-
ley being similarly priced.
String beans, product Of Florida, have
been much more plentiful and cheaper
this week, growers having fully recov-
cred from the effects of the latest cold
and wet spell. They were quoted
around $3.50 and So, retailers selling
them as low as 10 and IS cents a
pound. Squash has not been particu-
larry plentiful and eggplants, slightly
more plentiful, sold around 81 and $3.50
basket.
Plentiful supplies of caulifiower this
week resulted in prices dropping to 81 so
and SITS a crate. Lettuce. also more
plentiful, sold at lower prices, size and
quality regulating the price. Supplies
of sweet potatoes continue to reach here
from the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
many Of the white potatoes coming from
Idaho, Michigan, Texas and Pennsyl-
yania.
Moderate supplies of tomatoes, chiefly
from Florida, have met light demand
and steady market this week Some
exceptionally fine quality tomatoes have
been received the past few days. very
few of them green, and prices ranged
from So to $3.50 crate.
Mushrooms continued plentiful at
SIPS to $3.50 a basket. Beets and
carrots were reported in moderate sup
ply, Western lettuce, crates, selling at
SO and $3.25. The market on these
vegetables was reported weaker. Hot
house cucumbers and rhubarb found
ready sale at prevailing prices, the Gu
cumberS bringing So and $3.50 q dozen,
the rhubarb selling at SO and rs cents
a package.
Fruit Supplies.
Oranges and bananas continue to lead
the fruit market. There is no scarcity
Of either fruit, according to reports of
market dealers, the demand for the
bananas not being so great at this sea-
son. Immense quantities of small
oranges have been received from Florida
this season and offered at reduced
prices. Prices the past few days ranged
from $3.50 to $3.75, some extra large
fruit selling at slightly higher prices.
Grapefruit, as to size and quality,
has sold from $3.50 to $3.75 this week.
few fancy stock selling slightly higher.
Only moderate receipts of tangerines
have been reported this week. They
were quoted at $3.50 to $2.25, extra
fancy stock selling at higher prices.
Apples continue plentiful, cranberries
are more plentiful than earlier in the
season, and strawberries also have been
more plentiful and cheaper, selling as
low as IS and 40 cents a quart box.
Poultry dealers report their market
in splendid condition, and are antici-
pating heavier business for the inau-
gural period. New York dealers have
received shipments from Argentina, it
is stated, but none has been received
here because of the cheap prices that
have prevailed here since the Christmas
holidays. Should there be anything