This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
Mr. Charles M. Hooker, at a recent meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society stated that the past season was one of very great abundance in the production of nearly all varieties of fruits in Monroe county, and we think never before were our markets so well supplied with fine fruit of all kinds at such moderate prices. Dealers in Rochester paid about as follows for good fruit: Strawberries, 6 to 8 cents per quart; black raspberries, 6 to 8 cents; red, 10 to 14 cents; blackberries, 9 to 12 cents; currants, 4 to 6 cents per pound; grapes, 3 to 5 cents per pound; peaches, $1 to $1.50 per basket; plums - Lombard, Monroe Egg and Common Blue sorts, 75 cents to $1 per bushel; prunes, $2 to $2.50 per bushel; Renie Claude de Bavay, $1.50; Bradshaw, $1.50 to $2; quinces, $2 to $4 per barrel; pears - Bartlett, $4 to $6; Duchess and Seckel, $3 to $5; apples, $1.25 per barrel.
 
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