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The Weekly Florists' Review, 



March 10. 1904. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



THE MARKETS. 



Chicago, ilareli 9. — Hadishes, 20@ 

 50c doz. bunches; lettuce, $1@2.75 bbl. 

 heads, 25c case leaf; cucumbers, 50c@ 

 $1.50 doz. 



New York, March S.— Cucumbers, 50c 

 @$1.50 doz.; lettuce, 10@60c doz.; 

 mushrooms, 10@35c lb.; radishes, $1@ 

 2.50 100 bunches; tomatoes, 10@20e lb..; 

 asparagus, $2@$6 doz. bunches; rhubarb, 

 30@65c doz. 



WHITE FLY AND WINTER BLIGHT. 



I read with a great deal of interest 

 the opinions and instructions of your ex- 

 pert writers. Considerable has been said 

 of late about the little white fly, which 

 apparently succumbs to nothing but 

 hydrocyanic acid gas. I have experi- 

 mented somewhat with the gas, but find 

 it so irregular in its action that I don't 

 feel that I have gained much real 

 knowledge about its use. I never used 

 one-half as much as I see recommended 

 in your valuable paper and yet I have 

 had every leaf killed on tomato plants 

 six feet high by a quantity which on 

 previous occasions had killed the flies 

 without apparent injury to the vines. 

 I think the tightness of the house and 

 the moisture conditions indoors and out 

 have much influence in determining its 

 efficiency and destruetiveness. 



I have a trouble in my tomato house, 

 which I am at a loss to fight. Tears ago 

 I read in Prof. Bailey's book on Green- 

 house Management, of what he called 

 "winter blight." As near as I can 

 judge by his description and picture it 

 is what troubles me. and I have it bad. 

 He did not pretend to give a remedy, 

 preventive or curative, but in a few 

 years it left him. In my case it grows 

 worse. I have tried the most highly 

 recommended fungicides and have prac- 

 ticed for years pulling out every affected 

 plant. I grow them on the ground and 

 therefore can 't well change the soil com- 

 pletely, but I change to other houses 

 and it follows me. Has anyone ever 

 been able to get rid of it after it has 

 once appeared? Doesn't someone know 

 more of its nature and management than 

 the professor seemed to at that timef 

 G. H. A. 



TOMATOES. 



We are just about to make our last 

 indoor planting for the season. The 

 house has just been cleared of a former 

 crop and will receive a thorough cleaning 

 and a fumigating with sulphur to kill 

 any insects and germs of fungous diseases 

 that may be hanging around, before the 

 young plants are set. 



The growing of this crop will be much 

 easier than the one just cleared out, but 

 we can 't expect to realize as good prices, 

 which, by the ivay, have kept up fairly 

 well all through the winter. By the time 

 they come into bearing they will come 

 into competition with the southern arti- 

 cle. StiU, as less firing will be needed 

 to maintain a night temperature of about 

 60 degrees and, unless during dull, damp 

 spells, no firing at all will be necessary 

 during the day, it will cost less to mature 

 the crop. If fair prices can be procured 

 they ought to pay. Markets are always 

 more or less uncertain, but we find to- 

 matoes are a product that there is al- 



ways a demand for, and are never a 

 drug on the market until the outdoor 

 article begins to be plentiful. Customers 

 will always pay considerable more for 

 a nice fresh home-grown article than for 

 an article that has been shipped from a 

 distance and has lost more or less both 

 in appearance and quality in transit. 



It will hardly be necessary to renew all 

 the soil in the benches for this crop, but 

 the old soil shoidd be removed just where 

 the plants are to be set and enough new 

 soil supplied to give the plants something 

 fresh to work on untU they have a 

 good hold. The remaining old soO should 

 be loosened up and some bone meal or 

 other similar fertilizer worked well in 

 through it. But it won 't be necessary to 

 use a large quantity of this, as it might 

 induce rank growth at the expense of 

 fruit. Nourishment can be supplied la- 

 ter, if necessary, in the form of liquid 

 manure, just when it is going to be most 

 beneficial to the advancement of tffe 

 fruit. 



If the leaf growth is over-abundant it 

 can be regulated by cutting off the half 

 of the leaf, but it is better to have the 

 growth balanced so that this won't be 

 necessary. If the plants are any way 

 drawn or leggy don t be afraid in plant- 

 ing to set them well down, as roots will 

 be emitted all along the part of the stem 

 covered. Getting them down well at first, 

 with the proper amount of light and air 

 to promote stocky growth, the first flow- 

 ers should show and the first fruits set 

 not more than nine or ten inches above 

 the soil. W. S. Ckotdon. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., S. F. WlUard, Wethersfield, Conn.; First 

 Vlce-Pres.. J. Chas. McCuUoufrh, Cincinnati, O.; 

 Sec'y and Treas.. C. E. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 

 The 22d annual meeting will be held at St. Louis, 

 Mo., June, 19M. 



Mail orders are coming in with a 

 rush. 



The high price of potatoes in the pro- 

 vision markets is having its effect on 

 seed potato prices. 



Onion sets have not been in such brisk 

 demand at good prices since the year of 

 the Chicago World's Fair. 



One of the largest dealers says he has 

 to date sold twice as many canna roots 

 as in all of any previous season. 



Field corn is hard to buy and seed 

 potatoes are getting beyond the reach of 

 those who are accepting orders at retail 

 catalogue rates. 



It is found that retail catalogue prices 

 are much too low on many of the varie- 

 ties that were thought to be plentiful a 

 month or two ago. 



Onion seed is bound to be in better 

 demand than anticipated and the supply 

 may not be so much in excess of the de- 

 mand as has been supposed. 



Tests show a great variation in the 

 germination of alfalfa seed. At the seed 

 laboratory at Ottawa, Canada, samples 

 have germinated from five to eighty-five 

 per cent. The greatest vitality was in 

 samples of a bright greenish yellow col- 

 or. But if seed is of known low vitality 

 it can be sown more heavily. 



A NEW departure in the seed line is 

 a price list offering trash at low figures. 

 Its redeeming feature is its apparent 

 honesty. It assumes that the consumer, 

 for the sake of low prices, will buy an 

 article that properly belongs in the dump 

 heap. 



On February 25 the Joe L. Ullathorne 

 Seed Co., of Memphis, was issued a char- 

 ter authorizing a capitalization of $100,- 

 000. The incorporators are Joe L. Ulla- 

 thorne, O. C. Armstrong, A. S. UUa- 

 thorue, Geo. S. Hooper, W. A. Bickford, 

 A. Walsh and Henry Craft. 



SEED WARRANTY. 



On the question of warranty of seed, the 

 recent suit of Gardner vs. Winter was decided 

 in favor of the dealer by the Supreme Court of 

 Kentucky, which affirmed the Judgment of a 

 jury in the Circuit Court of Mason County. 

 Gardner asked for and was shown western Ger- 

 man millet; and Winter & Co., not having 

 enough of this seed on hand, ordered from a 

 wholesale seed house in Cincinnati, and had de- 

 livered to him eighteen bushels in the original 

 packages. Winter & Co. testified that there 

 were two qrjilities of western German millet 

 seed — one grown in the south, which was raised 

 almost entirely for seed purposes; that this 

 seed was cultivated in hills, like com; and that 

 the seed was sent west and resown, and pro- 

 duced what was known to the trade as western 

 German millet seed to distinguish it from the 

 genuine southern seed; that after the western 

 German millet seed had been resown for sev- 

 eral years, it had a tendency to run out and 

 deteriorate, so that it did not produce so luxu- 

 riantly as the southern seed. They also in- 

 troduced testimony to the effect that the seed 

 had germinated all right but that early in 

 June a severe drought set in. which lasted until 

 November, and that this prevented the millet, 

 a hard crop on land, from growing on thin 

 land like the plaintiff's. The ruling is: Where 

 plaintiff, relying on his own judgment and past 

 experience, bought of defendants, who were 

 dealers in seeds, a specific article, known as 

 western German millet seed, there was no im- 

 plied warranty that the seeds would germinate 

 and produce good crops, nor that they were 

 reasonably fit for the purpose to which they 

 were to be applied. Whether the seed sold to 

 hiui actually belonged to that variety, is for 

 the jury. 



Your paper does the work, all right. — 

 J. C. Schmidt, Bristol, Pa. 



A. LeCOQ & GO. 



DARMSTADT, GERMANY, 



Wholesale Dealers in 



Grass, Clover, 



AGRICULTURAL 

 and FOREST TREE 

 SEEDS— 



Prices and Samples on application.V 



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TUC MCUf ACTCD olmsteads white 



I nt NtW AO I tn COMMERCIAL 



Grow 10.000 and every one will be as white as 

 snow. It is my specialty. I have grown no other 

 color for the last ten years. Send your address 

 lor prices and circular, and read what the bank- 

 ers and merchants of this place, and commercial 

 grow^ers elsewhere, say. Notice the offer to re- 

 turn your money if not satisfied. It also shows 

 the field from which seed was saved, and from 

 which the blooms were cut that I sent to the 

 Milwaukee Convention. See report Florists' Ex- 

 change AugruBt 22. iy03. 



C. OI.USTEAD, E. Bloomfield, K. T. 

 Mention The Review when you write. 



filadioltts Bulbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 

 TRY THEM. 



Cushman Gladiolus Co. 



SYI.VAKIA, OHIO. 



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