Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1929, Page 47

FOOD PAGE. Fruits and Vegetables ; Maintain Firm Prices ‘The average consumer seldom consid- ers the effect that seasons of the year have en food may presage farm losses with promises of inereased cast. The grower of fruits «does not enthuse partioularly ever early warm weather. At best he is engaged in one of the greatest gambling busi- | nesses in the world. ‘Within a few miles of Washington are men who are spending money with a fair ehance of losing it. The nearby or- chardist, for example, has engaged extra help to prune his trees, He has bought spraying liquids. AI? that human hands can accomplish is be- ing done to provide 1| & plentiful supply 1| of the best pro- duce. Even the weather man ean aid him but little, Comes a sudden frost after a warm 1l and the chances of loss are excellent. The em- brye fruit er much of it is destroyed publie must pay more for that which is saved. Science has eome to the succor of the grower. He has learned, for ex- ample, that trees with a “northern ex- posure” are less apt to suffer from the ravages of an early frost. Therefore in planting he tries to ohserve this method of safety. On the other hand, business ucan the dealers in foodstuffs is less bris] in rainy weather. The buyer is less inclined to make personal visits to the stores and shops and the telephene is m{mi:d' t is too early to predict Spring prices. At present there has been little or no change in the cost of eommodities. Fruits and vegetables have maintained firm prices. Many shipments are still being regeived from remote parta of the country, including Florida and Oall- fornia. Among fruits the following &);lou pre- vail: Strawberries, 50 cents a box: pears, 10 cents each: apples, 8 to 10 cents aplece; grapefruit, 10 cents each; South American grapes, 75 cents to $1 a pound: Californis grapes, 35 to 40 cents a pound; cranberries, 20 cents & pound; bananas, 25 to 30 cents & dosen; large oranges, 50 cents a dosen; Argentine melons, $1 apiece. LA WASHINGT BY HERBERT THE FRUIT GROWER | The copy of George Washington's “parewell Orders to the Armies of the | tinuous succession of blooms. United States,” dated November 2, 1783, made at that time by the assistant ad- jutant general of the Army, has come to | light in a curio| shop in Washing- | ton. The original or: ders of Washing: ton did not survive. They are believed to have been de- stroyed as soon &s they were officially recorded by the adjutant general. The copy in the curio shop here, therefore--and _the Library of Con- g: 3 claimed to be the official, surviving orders. ‘The manuscript was owned by Bishop F. M. Bristol of Washington, but passed out of his hsnds some time ago. It is looked upon as one of the most valu- able and interesting of early American dn_c‘g‘menu. uscript is eight foli e man! pages, folio in size, and is entirely in the hand- writing of John Singer Dexter, assistant adjutant general of the Continental Army with the troops at Newburgh, N. Y. It is indorsed by Brig. Gen. James Clinton: “Genl. Washington's fare- well orders-to the Army in 1783.” A second indorsement, in an unknown hand, reads: “From the papers of Genl. Jas. Clinton and the copy from which the orders was read.” The orders were sent from Rocky Hill, N. J., where Washington was then in attendance upon_the Continental , sitting at Princeton. John C. Fitzpatrick, assistant chief of the manuscript division of the Li- brary of Congress, aided Bishop in establishing the authenticity of .manuscript. Fitzpatrick, after a eare- ful study, said: “This manuscript undoubtedly is the copy made by the assistant jutant general, and, following the usual prae- tice, Dexter Tead the orders himself ta the remnant of the Army, then walting at Newburgh for the British to evacuate the city of New York. “It is known that Brig. Gen. James Clinton was with the troops during their march down to the city and dur- ing the evacuation. I-see no reason to doub& the truth of these two indorse- ments.” Pitzpatrick further says that the or- ders were sent in a letter from Lieut. David Cobb, aide de camp to gton. There is a copy of the orders by Cobb in the Washington man- mrflgt in the Library of Congress. “The indorsement that these were the orders,” he says—"that is, the pa-| per from which the orders were read to the Army, November 2, 1783, at New- burgh by Dexter—must be taken at its face value, because of the fact that the other indorsement is in the handwrit- ing of Gen. Clinton.” The orders were printed in the news- papers of the day. Most of the Conti- nental Army already had been dis- banded and returned to their homes. So far as the information of the manuscript division of the Library of Congress goes, the Bristol copy and those in the Washington papers are the only ones extant. “Of these,” says Fitzpatrick, “the Bristol manuscript is the more valu- able and interesting.” It is cherry blossom time in Wash- gton. And cherry blossoms mean only one | thing in the Capital City of the United States—Spring. One has never known ‘Washington in all of its fullness until one has seen it in.the Springtime. People come from near and far to get a glimpse of this. Artists set their easels under the blooming trees trying to put on canvas the reality of the blossams. Girls clad in Oriental cos- tumes walk along the sea wall, holding over them Japanese sunshades. The Washington cherry blesgoms date back to the time that Mrs, Wil- liam Howard Taft was First Lady of the Land, She had seen them in the East and had had & number of the; trees planted here. 'nm':l Dr. Jokichi Takamine, a noted chemist of Japan, came to Washington on a visit. He was delighted to learn of the interest taken in his country’s cherry blossoms. Through Dr. Takamine a gift of 2,000 | trees was sent to Washington in 1909. | The trees arrived, but were condemned as infected, and were burned. But Dr. Takamine was not to be discouraged. | He resumed his efforts and 3,000 more | trees were given by the City of Tokio) in 1911, ¥rom these grew the bower| of bleomsa. | The cherry blossoms are in numerous | shades. { First, there are the almost white and the delicate lavenders and pinks, yellow, | cerise—and two weeks later come the| double rose pink blossoms—the ulti- mate of Japanese cherry blossoms. There are at least a dozen species of the blossoms, varying in shape, size, flowering, They coler and time of weeks from loom, in turn, about six ices. A too early Spring Continental | pseudo cerasus.” There is an abundance of excellent looking produce to be seen in practis cally all stores. Among the vegetables are: Mexican peas, 25 cents a peund; ‘Oalifornia_peas (scarce), 30 eents a | pound; celery, 10 cents a bunch; hot- house cucumbers, 20 to 35 cents each; small Florida cucumbers, 10 ecents apiece: spinach, 10 cents a pound; white and yellow squash, 10 to 1§ cents; turnips, 25 cents for four pounds; par- snips, (high at present), two pounds for a quarter; lettuce, 15 cents a head; sweet potatoes, 3 pounpds for 2§ eents; white potatoes, § cents a pound; Cali- fornia and Texas earrots, 10 eents a bunch: slaw cabbage, 5 cents a pound; green cabbage, 15 cents a head; enions, 3 pounds for 25 cents. There is fine California asparagus selling for $1.75 to $2 a large bunch, and South Carolina asparagus in two- pound bunches at $1.76 to $2. Hothouse asparagus in sin- gle portions may be obtained for 60 cents a Broceoli which is produced in Cali- fornia and Texas is very scarce, sell- ing for 75 cents a bunch. Although dairy prices remain the same there should be a decrease in prices in the near future. Eggs are selling for 60"to 70 cents a dozen and butter is bringing 60 cents a pound. The latter com- modity may be had at a lower price, depending upon the quality and from whom u‘- purehased. Poultry is fairly plentiful. Chickens, roasting sise, 45 ta 50 cents a pound; fryi ize, 50 cents a pound; stewing size, 40 cents a pound. Meat prices have not fluctuated ma- terially and the following may be re- ard as the general prices asked: Ll of lamb, 40 cents a pound: loin lamb chops, 60 cents; stewing lamb, 18 eents; shoulder lamb, 28 cents; shoulder chops, 36 cents; veal cutlets, 65 cents; breast of veal, 32 cents: veal chops, 45 cents; sheulder roast of veal, 35 cents: roast loin of pork, 32 cents? pork chops, 40 cents; fresh hams, 30 cents; round steak, 50 to 53 cents: sirloin, 58 cents: porterhouse steak, 60 cents; chuck roast, 85 cents. ON DAYBOOK ©. PLUMMER. their first appearance, making a con- The trees have no fruit. Some say that they are really a kind of plum and their botanical name is “prunus Last Spring th former Japanese - Ambassador and Mme. Matsudaira and their family were pictured often . under the beautiful trees. Miss Setsu | Matsudaira was es- £ pecially the objeet of the camera be- cause of her en- gagament to the young Prince Chi- chibu of Japan, whom she married hs_:hsum’mer. . @ e Japanese compares the cherry blossoms te life: "L B g g e the Of the cherry b*:”um." MOTHERS AND THFIR CWILBREN. bunch. ' Just before Easter, when using egge for cooking, I make a large hele in ene end and with a heavy needle pyuneh & smaller one in the other end and let the contents run out. Then I coler the eggs and fill them with small candies and trinkets and paste a plece of col- ored paper over the opening. These eggs are usually the favorite eggs in the Easter egg hunt and the child who finds the most of them is considered | the lucky child. They call them their | “surpris> eggs.” (Copyright, 1920.) OFTEN WOKE UP WITH A HEADACHE Finally Took ALL-BRAN In- stead of Drugs and Now “Couldn’t Feel Better” How much suffering constipation brings! Headaches,loss of nr(e)r;ah | and appetite. 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C, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1929. FOOD PAGE. For years a luxury of the few Leading hotels in Washington, New York, Baltimore, and many other great cities, feature these famous peaches now offered at a price within the reach of all OR years only luxurious homes, only exclusive restaurants could have them —these superb peaches everyone is talking about. For years Libby’s DeLuxe California Peaches were a luxury of the few. But now the first great shipments of these big, luscious peaches have come from Cali- fornia. Shipments so bountiful the whole city can share them. Already they are awakening widespread interest. Long a delicacy served in famous dining rooms, Libby’s DeLuxe Peaches have re- cently been featured in special dishes at distinguished hotels in many great cities. Jacques Hairinger (shown at right), well- known chef of Washington’s fashionable hotel, the Carlton, featured Libby’s DeLuxe Peaches last week in the delicious dessert shown below. At the Belvedere, one of Baltimore's lead- ing hotels, Chef Rinaudot served the entic- ing salad pictured below. Mr. Swaboda (see below), maitre d’ hotel of one of New York’s most exclusive hotels, theBarclay, finds these big DeLuxe Peaches “‘as remarkable for beautyas for flavor.” Coupe de Péche Carlton is the name given the unusual dessert (shown below), in which Libby's DeLuxe Peaches were served at the Carlton. Jacques Hairinger, distin- flmhed chef of the Carlton otel, who says: *“Libby's DeLuxe California Peaches are unsurpassed for beauly and delicate fine flavor” Peaches, until now a luxury of the few, This year they can be offered at a price within the reach of all. For new peach trees have come into bearing out in the California orchards. Trees that have yielded the first great harvests of real DeLuxe grade fruit! Big halves of tender gold! So exquisitely firm and tender, so fragrant and satiny smooth! These luscious peach halves will give your family a new and delightful surprise. Leading grocers can now supply you with Libby’s DeLuxe Peaches. Libby, M¢Neill & Libby, Chicago. Now the whole city can have them This year every family in the city can have them—Libby’s famous DeLuxe To get choice varieties of all fruits: Ha- watian Pineapple, Baytlett Peays, Apricots, Plums, Cherries, etc. as well as Peaches, be sure to ask for Libby’s. My, Swaboda, maive d’hdtel of the Barclay in New ‘ork, who featured Libby's DeLuxe Peaches in a new dessert rants, Sold by all grocers. Y . | California Peach Salad Belvedere—made with Libby’s DeLuxe California Peaches and served at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore This enticing desserl, made with Libby's DeLuxe Cali- fornia Peaches, was featured last week on the menu of the Carlton Holel One of Washington's famous hotels—The Carlton, Here Libby's DeLuxe California Peaches were recently served as Coupe de Péche Carlton. This unusual dessert (shown below) was ¢reated by Chef Hairinger (at left) Your grocer can get Libby's DeLuxe Peaches from Libby, M¢Neill & Libby, 526 Light St., Baltimore. Phone— Plaza 1441