Fruits

Although holiday demands caused some spurt in the fruit trade this month, wet, unseasonable weather has kept life out of sales. Prices for nearly all stuff are above the general purse It is difficult to put low grade items on the market after the long series of fine cheap crops New York has had. ' Fortunately Florida oranges now furnish an agreeable stand-by. We lost some favor by the early shipment of green stock. Cranberries are dearer, helped by high apples. California prunes are a great success; they continue to outsell foreign. An incident in the trade this week is the shipment of one barrel of Newtown Pippins to Count Von Bismarck ; cost, $16, freight added, $20.50. •

Apples - Western King, $3-50@f4 per bbl.; Michigan Spy, Greenings and Baldwins, $2.50@l3.25; Lady apple, selected, half bbl., $l2@$l5

Bananas - Jamaica, 75c.@$1.25 bunch ; Port Limon, selected, $1.50

@$1-75; others, $1.12@$1.25.

Cranberries - Cape Cod, medium to fancy. bbl., $9.50@$ 12; unsound and poor, $4@$8; Jersey and Cape crates. $ 1.75@$3.

Grapes - New York Catawba, small basket, 20@25c; small, 34@ 40c.; Almeria, ordinary to good, per bbl., $5@$7; choice to fancy, $8@$ 12; hot-house Black Hamburg, $3 per pound; California Emperor, ice-house, crate, $8.

Lemons - Sicily, fair to fancy, $1.75@$3.75 per box; Malaga, $1.50

@$1.75;Valencia, $4@4.25.

Oranges - Florida orange, bright, $2@$2.50; russets, $1.75@$2; poor, 1.50(5)1.62; Havana, $3@$3.50 bbl.; Jamaica, repacked, $4@ $4.50; Valencia,4@$4.25 case; Tangerine,f3@$5box; Mandarins, $2.50@3.50; Grape fruit, Florida, $2@$3.50 bbl.

Prunes - California, 73/8@73/8c. lb.; French, 6@61/8c.

Nuts - Hickory per bush., $2; Texas Pecan, 7@8c. lb.; new hand picked Va. peanuts, 7@7¼c, farmers, 4½@5½c; Cocoanuts, Bara-coa, $33 hund., San Blos, $37@$40.

Pears - Boston variety, $6 case; California, f4@f6.

Persimmons - Florida Japanese, f6 bund.

Pomegranates - Selected, fresh colored, $4.50@$5 hund.

Pineapples - No arrivals.

Raisins - California, clusters, $2.20@$2.75, loose, $2@$2.25; Valen-tia, 7¾@8c layers, 65/8@6¾c. off stalk.

Vegetables

Potatoes need cold weather to help sale. Marked low trade divided with cheap foreign. Prime onions not plenty; some choice yellow stored for holiday and future use. The south keeps up a late assortment of truck.

Kale - Brown, $ 1 bbl.; Norfolk, 75c.

Celery - L. I., 75c.@$1 per doz. bunches.

Cucumbers - Southern, $2@$4.50 crate.

Egg Plant - Florida, $4@$6 bbl.

Endive - $1.5o@$3 hund. bunches.

Lettuce - Boston, 50c. doz. heads.

Corn Salad - $ 1.25 hund. bunches.

Lima Beans - California, $3.10@$3.so bag.

Leeks - $ 1.20 hund. bunches.

Horse Radish - $4@$6 per bbl.

Onions - Eastern red, $2.50@$3 bbl.; Orange Co., $1.25@f2.50; Western, $ 1.75@$2.25; White, $4@$9; Yellow, $1 .50@$2.50.

Potatoes - Poor to best, including Maine, Rose and Hebron,$ 1.25 @$2 bbl.; German sacks, $ 1.50@$1.75; British, $1.50@$1.85; Delaware River Sweet, $2.75@$3.25 bbl.; Vineland, $$3@$4

Radishes - $ 1 hund. bunches.

Spinach - Norfolk, $1.25@$1.75 bbl.

String Beans - Southern, $2@$4 crate.

Squash - Hubbard, $1.25@$1.75 bbl.; Marrow, $ 1 25@$1.50. Turnips - Russia, 70c. bbl. Water Cress - 30@40c. basket. Mushrooms - Hot-house, 80c.@$ 1 lb. Tomatoes - 90c. lb. Cucumbers - $2.5o doz.

Flowers

Asparagus - 35@5oc. string. Adiantum - 25@3oc. bunch.

Carnations - $3.50@$4.25 hund Camellias - $4 hund.

Heliotrope - 20@30c. hund. Ivy leaves - $ 1 hund.

Lily of the Valley - 7@10c. spray. Lilium Harrisii - $4 doz.

Mignonette - 75c. doz. Narcissus, White - $ 10@$ 15 hund.

Orchids - $3@$9 doz.

Roses - High and quality inferior. Bon Silene, Papa Gontier and Cusin, $25 hund.; Perles, $15 hund.; Mermets, $25@$30 hund.; American Beauty, $ 1.50 each.

Smilax - 25@35c string. Violets - $2@$5 hund.