FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 12

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Market Gardeners, Ltd., Wellington, report values of fruit and vegetables sold ou Thursday:—Local hothouse tomatoes, Is 2d to Is lid per lb; Auckland hothouse tomatoes, lOd to Is 6d per lb: Delicious apples, 3s 6d to 8s 6d per case: Vicar pears, 4s 9d to 6s 6d per case; local lemons, 17« 6d per case; Stunner apples, 5s to 5s 6d per case; Washington apples, 6s to 7s per case; Ballarat apples, <is to 7s 6d jper case; Winter Cole pears (small), 4a to 6s 6d per case; Poorman oranges, 9s 6d per case; South potatoes, £6 10s to £7 10s per ton; onions, 8s to 9s per cental bag; cauliflowers, 5s 9d to 7a lOd per case; parsnips, 4s 6d to 10s per case; lettuce, 6s to 16s per case; spinach, 5s to 13s (3d per case; swedes, 3s 6d to 4s per case; sprouts, 4s 6d to 17s lOd per case; carrots, 7s lOd to 13s per case; beetroot 3s to 6s per case; cabbage, 5s to 9s 3d per sack; pumpkins, 8s to 11s per sack; Swedes, 4s 9d;to 6s per sack; parsnips, 10s to 13s 6d per> sack; beetroot, 4s 6d to 7s 3d per, sack; cauliflowers, 8s to 20s per sack; carrots, 8s to 11s 6d per sack; sprouts, 10s 9d per sack; marrows, 14s per sack; artichcte;, 10s per sack; /hubarb, 14s to ISs 6d per dozen bunches; celery, Is to 2s per bunch; leeks, 8d to lOd per bunch; pumpkins, 10s to 15s per dozen; marrows, 9s to 14s per dozen. Fowls—White Leghorns, Gs 6d per pair. Cut flowers—Sol dOr, 7s 6d to 11s per dozen; jonquils, 4s 6d to 7s 3d per dozen; violets, 2s 6d to 4s per dozen; Paperwhites, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per dozen; daffodils, 9s 9d to 13s 3d per dozen; freesias, 4s 6d to 5s 3d per dozen;-nnemones, 12s per dozen; poppies. 6s 9d to 14s 3d per dozen; June roses, 12s 6d per dozen. •■•