FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 149, 28 June 1929, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

The Market Gardeners, Ltd.,. of Wellington, report the following values of fruit and' vegetables sold at their sales yesterday:— Fruit report: Hothouse grapes 3s 2d per lb, hothouse tomatoes Is Ib, tree tomatoes 6s, passions 9s 3d box, Jonathan apples 6s to 9s, Delicious 5s 6d to Bs, Washingtons 6s to-8s 6d, Stunners os 6d to 7s, Rome Beauty 7s 6d, Dougherty 4s to 5s 9d, Cook Island oranges 18s case. Vegetable report: Potatoes, South £7 to £8 10s per tori; onions, centals, 6s to 7s 6d; cabbage, Is to 2s 6d case; cauliflower, 2s case; carrots, Is 9d to 6s; swedes, 2s to 3s 6d case;'spinach, 4s to 6s case; parsnips, 5s to :6s case; silver beet, Is to 2s case; beetroot, Is lid to 4s 6d case; marrows, Is 6d to 2s ease; sprouts, 6s 9d to 13s box; lettuces, 3s to 9s case; cabbage, 3s to 5s 6d sack; cauliflower, 5s to 10s sack; carrots, 3s to 4s sack; parsnips, 6s to 7s 9d sack; pumpkins, 6s to 7s sack; celery, Is 6d to 6s bunch; red cabbage, 5s 6d case; hothouse beans, Is 4d per lb; fowls, 5s 6d per pair. Cut flowers: Sol de Or, lOd. to Is 6d bunch: violets, Is 6d to 2s 6d dozen; anemones, 6d to Is 3d bunch; paper whites, 3s to 4s dozen bunches.