High quotations for common grade of apples about explain the situation. Only a few exceptionally well carried Reds and good sized Russets show firmness. California pears have done so well this season that a large storing may be looked for next season. An injured peach crop has some gloomy endorsement. California dried figs, 50 cents per pound. Hot-house peaches, $9 per dozen. Cuban Canteloupes, $1@$ 1.50 each. Best Florida oranges have advanced in the face of enlarged supplies of foreign. The Navel variety, since it has become somewhat commercial, seems to have come to stay in fancy trade. Baracoa advices mention an unusually fine and abundant bannana crop. If prices are only popular, there seems to be no limit to the sale of this useful tropical combination of portable luncheon and dessert. In our next number we shall give severs Spanish methods of preparing this fruit for the table.

Fruits

Apples - Baldwins, $3.25@$4.25 per bbl; Spy and Roxbury Russets, $3.75@$4.25; other russets, $3@$3.75; common to fair Western apples, $2.50®$3.

Bananas - Aspinwall and Jamaica,$1@$ 1.75 bunch; Baracoa, $1. 12½

@$ 1.50. Prices better with improved quality and scarce apples. Cranberries - New Jersey crates, $4@$6, latter per dark. Grapes - No open grown left. Hot-house Hamburg, retail, $4 lb. Lemons - Sicily unchanged, $2.5o@$4 case. Pineapples - Havana sugar loaf, $8@$ 18 bund; Key West, $10@ $12.

Oranges - Indian River, $4.50@$6 per case; other yellow, and Russets, $.325® $4; Navel oranges, $6@$8; Valencia, $4 @ $6; Messina, Palermo and Catania,$3@$4.

Strawberries - Market irregular, arrivals running too green. Florida, 10c.®23c quart; Charleston, 20C.@25c; N. C, 15c.@20c.

Nuts - Peanuts, fancy hand picked, 7¾ @ 8 lb; Farmers, 6 @7; Hickory nuts, $1.50® $2 ; Pecans, about all in distributors' hands.

Cocoanuts - Ordinary, $27 to $35 per bund., latter San Blas.

Vegetables

With April quantity and variety are added to vegetables. Latterly southern garden truck had a wide range owing to irregular steamer arrivals. Good prices now rule for prime stuff and will un-till there is near-by competition. Supplies show the deteriorating effect of past frost interruptions. This is very noticeable in the quality of cabbage. Asparagus arrives from many southern points including North and South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland; best ranges, 13.50@15.50 doz. bunches; culls, 12@$2.50.

Beets - Florida, crate, fair to choice, $ 1@$ 2; Bermuda $1.50@$1.75 New Orleans, $2.50@$2.75 bbl.; L. I., old $2.25@$2.50.

Cabbage - Charleston, fair to large, $2.25@$3.50 bbl.; Florida, $2.75@$3.25; other southern, $1@$2.

Cucumbers - Florida, $4 @ $6 per crate.

Green Peas - Charleston, $ 3 to $6 per crate.

Turnips - Russian, Canadian, $1 bbl.

Egg-plant - Nominally, $4@$9 per bbL

Tomatoes - Florida in good order, bush crate, $4@$4.50, green $3@$3.50; Key West, box, 65C.@85c; Bermuda,50c.@75C.

Onions - Bermuda, crate, $2.2s; native Reds, $3.5o@$5 bbl.; Yellow, $4@$4.50.

Radishes - Virginia, 100 bunches, 50c.@$1.

Rhubarb - District Columbia, $4.50@$5100 bunches.

Spiuach - Norfolk, bbl., $1.75@$2.25.

String Beans - Florida, poor to choice, crate, $ 2 to $6.

Potatoes - choice running low and dearer. Sweets higher. Bermuda, new crop, $7@$8 bbl., other, $4@$6; Florida, range $5@$7; Northern and Western, common to best, $1.75@$2.25; Maine, Rose and Hebron, $2.75@$3; State, $1.80@$2.25; Foreign, bags, $1.8o@ $ 2.25; Sweets, $3.50@$5 bbl.

Dealers urge careful merchantable packing as a great help to prompt sales.