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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Ai'BiL 7, 1904. 



v4?Sj^ 



"Get in the Habit" 



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Iiong- Distance Phone Central 3598, 



or Teleg-raph, or a letter to 



GHAS. W. McKELLAR 



51 Wabash Ave., CHICAGO 



WHEN YOU WANT 



Orchids, Violets, Valley, Fancy Roses, Fancy Carna- 

 tions, Bulbous Flowers and Greens of all kinds; 

 or Supplies and Wire Work of any kind. 



Mptitinn Tlip Review wben yoa write. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



Lebanon, Pa.,— Alfred N. LeLman has 

 leased a three-acre truck farm of T. P. 

 Frantz and built a greenliouse for vege- 

 tables. 



Chicago, April 6.— Radishes, 25 to O.io 

 dozen bunches; leaf lettuce, 45 to 47l.,c 

 case: heads. $2 to $4 barrel; cucumbers. 

 oOi- to .$1.25 dozen. 



FERTILIZERS FOR CUCUMBERS. 



What is the best commercial fertilizer 

 f'>y cucumbers? I iutcBd to put it in 

 with the seed. The soil is fin.\ wholly 

 new land, only used once. It wa.s plowed 

 last fall. 11. 



I havfl alvays had good siiccess in 

 growing cucumbers by using tankage. 

 This is manufactured at the slaugliter 

 houses. It contains bone, lAcicCi and t)i;- 

 entrails of animals, the.se beins kiln 

 dried and then ground fine. This con 

 tains a large percentage of phosphoric 

 acid, which makes it quick acting. In- 

 stead of putting in the seed and manure 

 together, I would advise 0. H. to put 

 the manure in the hills about a week 

 before he intends sowing the seed. This 

 will allow the heat of tlie manure to 

 work off. If put in together the heat 

 generated from the manure would be apt 

 to injure the' seeds, which in a good 

 many cases would fail to germinate. We 

 hare no hard and fast rule rejardins- 

 the exact quantity to be used but bv 

 the rule of thumb: use a good handful 

 to each hill. W. S. Croydox. 



LATE CROPS. 



I have twenty feet of a liouse. 30.\100. 

 which I wish to plant to some vegetable 

 early in May that will come in early, or 

 in time to bring good prices. Could I 

 be successful with tomatoes? I could get 

 the plants now and grow them on in 

 pots \intil the benches are ready. I have 

 solid IxkIs and a very light house, the 

 glass being two feet wi<le. Do you know 

 where plants are to !»■ bought? From 

 what sowing of seed should they be? 

 \\'ould anv other crop pav better? 



A. A. G. 



Tlie month of May is too late to plant 

 any vegetable crop indoors with any de- 

 gree of certainty of its bringing good 

 prices. By the time the crop would be 

 ready a plentiful siipply of all kinds 



of vegetables would be coming in from 

 warmer sections at no great distance fur- 

 tlier soutli than wliere you are located, 

 and these would of coiu'se be grown at 

 much less expense than indoor crops. Of 

 course nuicli would depend on your local 

 market. Customers might be willing to 

 pay more for a homegrown article than 

 for one shipped from a distance, lint 

 such vegetables as tomatoes and cuciun- 

 bers. which would be about the onh' 

 crops worth considering for yoiu- pur- 

 pose, are good shippers, and it is very 

 doubtful if the home grown article would 

 be so much superior as to induce tlie 

 payment of a higher price. However, if 

 you decide to try a vegetable crop I 

 think tomatoes would be about your best 

 crop. If you cannot procure the plants 

 locally you can get tlicm through the ad- 

 vertising columns of the Review. Gooil 

 strong plants in 5-inch pots would be 

 large elunigh for planting. 



W. S. CKOvnoN. 



THE TOMATO DISEASE. 



This fungous disease', or blight, as it is 

 -cnietimes called, is too counnon to need 

 description, as all those wlio have tried 

 tlu- forcing of tomatoes will have had 

 more or less experience with it. Numer- 

 ous remedies have been advocated for it. 

 and many of them ha ye afl'orded relief, 

 but wiien the plants .ire seriously at- 

 tacked I don't think there is anything 

 that can be depended on as a cure. 



By sbnlyir.g the cpndit)'.;is most con- 

 ducive to the developmetit of the disease 

 and avoiding such conditions as far as 

 possible much trouble may be prevented. 

 Location has much to do with it; in low 

 situations all fungous diseases are more 

 prevalent than on higher and driei 

 ground. In the bouse it.<e!f the atmos- 

 phere should be kept as ,lry as possible, 

 watering being ahvays done in the morn- 

 ing, to give the moisture a chance' of 

 drying up before the house has to be 

 closed down. During dull. dami> spells. 

 I'hen little air can be oiv(-ri, a corrc- 

 spondingiy less supply of wacer will be 

 needed by the plants and just enou?h 

 should be given to keep them from suf- 

 fering from excessive dryness. Light and 

 air plav a most important part in the 

 prevention of this disease. If the plants 

 are huddled together to the obstruction 

 of both liaht and air it is hardly to h? 

 expected that they will remain in a 

 healthy condition. Cold draughts and 

 siulden changes of temperature are fruit- 

 ful causes of the development of disease, 

 so great care should be exercised in the 

 matter of airing. 



Being fortunate in having a good loca- 

 tion, and by the observance of the above 

 |)oints. we have experienced very little 

 trouble with the disease this season. 

 Whenever the disease mad? its appear- 

 ance, which is first indicated by brown 

 spots on the under surfaces of the lower 

 leaAcs. we removed tb- olfected leaves 

 at once and painted the pipes in a few 

 jdaces with sulphur diluted in linseed 

 oil. Thus we managed to hold it in 

 check, though we know from former ex- 

 perience that this is not snibcient to ar- 

 rest a serious attack. 



\V. .S. CnoyDON. 



ORDERS COME SWIFT. 



Ed. Florists' Review. — Please stop 

 inv advertisement for a • while until I 

 catch up. Orders are coming in too 

 swift for me at the present and 1 nnist 

 liave a chance to see if I will have any- 

 thing left after filling the, orders I now 

 have on band. G. Obermeyer. 



Parkersburg. W. Va. 



THE BEST PEONIES. 



G. C. Watson, of Philadelphia, who is 

 a pronounced peony enthusiast, gave the 

 following as his selection of fifty stand- 

 ard varieties in his lecture before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society on 

 April 2: 



In May flowering sorts; Temiifolia 

 plena and officinalis in three colors. 



Among June varieties the following 

 are reliable sorts to plant: 



Whites — Duke of Wellington. Festiva 

 maxima. La Tulipc, La Vestale, Marie 

 Lemoine, Duchesse de Xemours, Neorai^ 

 Demay. Alice .Tulvecourt, Baroness 

 Scbroeder, Grandiflora nivea, Helene Les- 

 lie, Mme, Dupont, Triomphe de Paris 

 and Viscountess Folkestone. 



Pinks — Belle Donissine, Caroline Al- 

 lain. Delicatissima. Duchess of Suther- 

 lanc"!, Eugene Verdier, Faust. General Be- 

 deau, Leonie, Madame Breon, Lady 

 Bramwell. Madame de Vatry, Paganini, 

 Princess May, Humei earnea. Rosea 

 grandiflora. Alexandre Dumas. Glorie de 

 Patrie. Josephine Parmentier, Reine des 

 Fleurs and Washington. 



Deep rose varieties — Dr. Bretonean. 

 Abel de Pn.iol, Etendard du Grand 

 Homme, John Fraser and Sir Charles 

 Dilke. 



Deep crimson varieties: Rubra su- 

 lierba. Marshal MacMahon. Souvenir d' 

 -Auguste Miellez, Francois Ortegal. Rubra 

 triumphans, Delachei and Louis Van 

 Hoiitte. W. X. I 'r.AKi. 



