GOLDEN TOMATOES
MIXERS AVIIO WILL FAVE THEM AT FIVE SHILLINGS A POUND.
English tojuiloes arc making three shilling:; to fivo shillings per pound wholesale- at Covent Garden markets, London (says the "Dispatch"), and it; seems us though the growers nro again about to repeat the golden harvest they obtained Inst year.
Still higher prices are, of course, being paid by the public. AVho buys the luxury dish at theso prices? "A certain proportion certainly finds its way to tlio West End shops," said a voil-];nown merchant, "but tho bulk of tlio expriisivo supplies go to the mining and industrial districts of the north, -where they aro consumed by the wealthy miners and iminition workers to whom money ia no object just now. I'ortunes wero tnado by growers lusij year, and moro will bo inado this reason." Luxury fruits aro correspondingly dear. 'J'here is a large demand for English liot-housp grapes at eight shillings a pound. Oranges' arc nearly five tim&s their usual price, and while on» shilling a pound is asked for new potatoes three times Hint prico is demanded for now season buniu.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 222, 7 June 1918, Page 8
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184GOLDEN TOMATOES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 222, 7 June 1918, Page 8
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