This section is from the book "The American Garden Vol. XI", by L. H. Bailey. Also available from Amazon: American Horticultural Society A to Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.
All peck, quart, each, pound and dozen prices are retail; all bunch, box, bushel, barrel and hundred rates wholesale, except where noted.
Apples - Best Baldwins and Russett, $5 bbl. Bananas - No. 1 stock, $2. bunch. Oranges - $3@$6 box. Mandarins and Tangierines - none.
Grape Fruit - scarce, $5 bbl.
Lemons - $3@$4 box.
Pears - none.
Grapes - none.
Dates - 15c. lb. Figs - 15@30c. lb.
Beets - $1 bush., 40c. pk. Cabbages - $s.75@$3; Florida, $3 bbl. or crate. Carrots - 60@75c. bush.; 25c. pk. Lettuce-75c dozen; 8@xoc. each. Onions - $6. bbl.; Bermudas$2.75 crate. Potatoes - $ 1 bush. . Squashes - Turban and Bay State, $2.50 @$3 bbl.; 3@4C. lb. Mint - 100 doz. bunches, 12c. bunch. Turnips - 60c. bush. Cucumbers - $ 15 hund, 20c. each. Oyster Plant - none. Parsnips - 75c.@$ 1 bush.
Spinach - native, 60c. bush.; Norfolk, $2.5© bbl., 25c, pk. Ruta-Baga Turnips - $ 1.50 bbl. Brussels Sprouts - none.
Radishes - round, 40c. doz.; long, 75c. doz., 5@10c. bunch.
Tomatoes - Florida, $2@$3 crate; 50c. lb.
Rhubarb - 5@oc., according to size of stock.
Spinach and Kale from Norfolk is coming forward quite freely.
Mr. Rice, of Messrs Rice & Halway, has just returned from the South, and he reports southern truck looking badly, which is owing to late freezes. Cabbage is almost a total failure.
Appearances argue for a quick market for our early native truck and at increased prices from former years.
Chicago rhubarb is in the market, but owing to its small and broken condition the price is away off from our near-by greenhouse stock.
There are a few greenhouse cauliflower in market coming from R. I. Florida cabbage are being received in barrels and crates in fair order.
Native cabbages are still with us. Old onions are about out of the market. Bermudas have taken their place.
Roses - Bon Silene and Safranos, $s@3; Niphetos and Gontiers, $5; Pearls and Sunsets, $6; Mermets, Brides and La France, $8; Hybrids, $ 15; Jacqueminots, $15@$20 hun.
Carnations - mixed colors, short stems, $1.50; white, long stems $2; Webb, $ 2; Wilders and fancy colors, $2 hund.
Lily of the Valley - $4; Harrisii and Longiflorum, $ 12 hund.
Roman Hyacinths and Narcissus - $4 hund.
Tulips - mixed colors, $6 hund.
Jonquils - $6 hund.
Callas - $ 10 hund.
Spirea - $3 hund.
Heath - 50c. bunch.
Violets and Pansies - 50@75C. hund.
Heliotrope - $1 hund,
Smilax - $25 hund.
Adiantum,C - $1.50; Farleyense $20 hund.
Asparagus Plumosus - $50 hund.
Ivy Leaves - 50c. hund.
Plate I, Say's Rose - Rosa Sayi. ¾ Natural Size.
Habitat: Plains and swamp margins from Michigan to Colorado and northward. A comely wild rose, three to four feet high; a free bloomer. See page 321
 
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