THE VEGETABLE DEPARTMENT. 



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An Established Industry 



S. WARD KENNEDY, LEAMINGTON, ONT. 



EARLY vegetable growing in Essex 

 county is an established industry. 

 It has been proven to be extremely profit- 

 able by some well-known growers. The 

 work is on a satisfactory basis and will 

 warrant a considerable increase, but I do 

 not believe in exceptional cases of success 

 being cited to mislead the public. There is 

 considerable risk in the work, and those not 

 understanding the raising of plants under 

 glass can easily lose a great deal of money. 

 Hot air, hot water and steam have been 

 tested for heating greenhouses and the re- 

 sults have been published. All have proved 

 practically successful if rightly installed, 

 the choice resting with the amount of glass 

 and sash at one's disposal. It is possible 

 useful experiments might be carried on to 

 determine whether to plant seeds early to 

 grow slowly ; or to plant later, thereby sav- 

 ing fuel, and growing them a little faster. 

 Should plants be fed quite heavily, in the 

 greenhouse, with nitrogen, pnosphoric acid, 

 and potash is a point on which there is some 

 doubt, and experiments might be carried on 

 in the field to determine how much fertilizer 

 or fertilizers can be used profitably with 

 regards to ripening, as a difference of lo to 

 14 days is often the difiference between profit 

 and loss. 



The Cabbage Black Rot Germ 



THE Vitality of the Cabbage Black Rot 

 Germ on Cabbage Seed, is the title 

 of a bulletin recently issued by Messrs. H. 

 A. Harding, F. C. Stewart and M. J. 

 Prucha, of the New York Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station. Black rot of cabbage is 

 a distinctive bacterial disease for which no 

 satisfactory method of controlling it in the 

 field has yet been found. Concerning the 

 ability of the disease germs to survive the 

 winter on the seed, there has been a differ- 



Rev. Father A. E, Burke 



The success of the ninth annual convention of the Prince Edward 

 Island Kruit Growers Association, held Dec. 20 and 21, at Char- 

 lottown, P.E.I., and described in this issue, wa;- due in a lorge 

 measure to the en-rgetic and capable efforts of the president, Rev. 

 Father A. E. Burke, of Alberton, P.E.I., who is well known to 

 f eaders of The Horticulturist. 



ence of opinion. The bulletin gives an ac- 

 count of some investigations bearing on this 

 point. 



The conclusion is that much of the cab- 

 bage seed on the market is contaminated 

 with germs of the black rot disease and 

 that some of these germs may survive the 

 winter and become a source of infection to 

 the young cabbage plants. As a precau- 

 tionary measure, it is advised that all cab- 

 bage seed be disinfected before sowing, by 

 soaking for 15 minutes in a i-iooo corrosive 

 sublimate solution or in formalin, one pound 

 to 30 gallons. It is not expected that this 

 treatment will prevent either leaf or root 

 infection in infected soils ; but it may be 

 safely relied on to prevent all danger from 

 infected seed. It will not injure the ger- 

 mination. 



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