February, 1914 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



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An Exterior View of Two of Mr. Dunlop't Greenhouses. They are 61 by 400 feet. They 'are worth a visit 



malch stalk or a grain of corn into this 

 incision to prevent it closing and healing 

 up, cover with moss (asphagnum is best), 

 and wrap securely. Keep the moss moist 

 at all times, and place the plant in a 

 warm, moist place. If you have a warm 

 greenhouse so much the better. When 

 the young roots show through the moss 

 it should be removed, and the young 

 plants severed from the old one and pot- 

 ted up into a good growing medium. The 

 old stems of these plants may be used 

 for increasing your stock by cutting them 

 up into short lengths, taking care to have 

 one or more joints to each piece and 

 placing them in sand with a good bot- 

 tom heat. 



Bouvardias are rather shy in throw- 



ing out suitable material for propagat- 

 ing purposes. A better way than wag- 

 ing for the old plants to throw out young 

 growths is to make root cuttings. Re- 

 move the soil to get at the roots, and 

 take off cuttings half an inch to an inch 

 and a half long. Place some coarse soil 

 in a box and over this an inch of sandy 

 soil. On this place the cuttings and 

 cover with the same material. Water 

 well and place where a little bottom heat 

 is to be obtained. Within a month you 

 will have young plants. 



When rooted all cuttings should be 

 potted into a good, light soil in jxits two 

 to three inches in diameter, and treated 

 carefully by shading- and watering for a 

 few days until they become established. 



Tomatoes Under Glass 



Jack W. Collins, Moncton, N.B. 



Mow I grew one of my best crops of 

 lomatoes in Canada, will perhaps be in- 

 teresting to some readers of The Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist at this time of tTie 

 year. 



The variety selected was Livingstone's 

 'ilobe. The seed was sown the begin- 

 ning of Etecember. The plants were 

 planted in fruiting hou.ses 'in February, 

 and ripe fruit was gathered in quantity 

 by the end of April. I had forty-two hun- 

 dred plants planted in five houses. From 

 these I sold thirty-five thousand pounds 

 of fruit. This gives an average of eight 

 and one-third f)Ounds f>er plant. The 

 plant.s were planted at an average dis- 

 tance of two feet apart. This gave a 

 fairly good return per square foot of 

 ground. 



The method of growing was as fol- 

 lows : Seed was sown in flats in a tem- 

 jKirature of from sixty to sixty-five de- 

 grees, covered until the seed had ger- 

 minated, and then transplanted toa light, 

 sunny position to develop into strong, 

 stocky plants ; as soon as large enough 

 they were potted into three and a half 

 inch pots, and kept growing rapidly, but 

 with plenty of light and air until about 

 two weeks before planting out, when 

 they were transferred to a cooler temper- 



ature to make the plants good and hardy. 

 I find they do not flag when planted and 

 start off much more quickly when given 

 this treatment. I planted in the row at a 

 distance of two feet between rows, as 

 follows : The first two rows at a dis- 

 tance of one and a half feet, then a space 

 left qf two and a half feet, then two 

 more rows of one and a half feet, and 

 so on. This gave an average of two feet 

 for each plant. The two and a half 

 feet between each two rows, made it 

 much easier to get along each row, to 

 trim, tie and to gather the fruit. In 

 training the plants a wire was stretched 

 over each row right along the houses, 

 eight feet from the ground. A cane was 

 placed to each plant, and then made fast 

 to the wire overhead. The plants were 

 tied to this as they needed it, which 

 kept them in position, and also present- 

 ed a very neat appearance. In trimming 

 out some of the foliage I never cut out 

 more than was absolutely necessary, and 

 then always the entire leaf. Cutting a 

 leaf only half back tends to make that 

 leaf sprout again. That is only wasted 

 energy on the part of the plant. Another 

 method which I pursued, which I know 

 does not find favor with many growers, 

 was tp train two stems to each plant. 



Als» I never used 

 stable manure or 

 any manure at all 

 when preparilngthc 

 ground but gave 

 fertilizers after five 

 to six trusses of 

 fruit had set. 1 

 find this makes 

 shorter jointed 

 plants and the 

 fruit sets more 

 freely. 



The only fault 

 to find with Liv- 

 ingstone's Globe, 

 if there is a fault 

 to Ix; found with it, is that it is thin-skin- 

 ned and liable to crack under certain 

 conditions. One reason for cracking is 

 shutting down with a lot of moisture in 

 the houses. I found it much more pro- 

 fitable to keep a little steam going and 

 the ventilators open a little all night. 



Success With Garden Annuals 



p. D. Powe, CainsTille, Ont. 



Good seed is a prime essential in at- 

 taining success with any class of plants. 



Nothing but the best seed is cheap in 

 the end. Cheap seed as sold by some 

 firms, is nearly useless. It is apt to be 

 largely the left over stock of former 

 years or seed that has been bought from 

 a grower who having allowed his stock 

 to degenerate, is forced to sell it ch^ap 

 in order to procure a market. No re- 

 liable firm sells cheap seed, or will han- 

 dle it under any consiideration. Mo.st 

 firms demand that growers send them 

 samples of their seed, which they then 

 put through the most rigid tests. 

 Though seed may be procured from 

 many of the general stores we would 

 advise its purchase from some reliable 

 seed company, as by so doing you can 

 get your own choice of seed and not be 

 bound down to a small assortment. 



Before beginning to plant assort your 

 seed into two classes, namely, those for 

 starting in house, hotbed or cold frame, 

 and the seed that succeeds best when 

 planted out of doors. As many of our 

 best annuals cannot be started with suc- 

 cess, except in a hot or cold frame, that 

 may be said to be the most commonly 

 used rhethod. First obtain a shallow 

 box (such as baddies come in) from your 

 grocer. These usually cost five cents 

 each. If these are not obtainable, any 

 box about two and one-half inches deep 

 by about twenty-four inches long, and 

 fifteen inches wide, will do. These boxes 

 are known to the florist as flats. 



In the bottom of this box place an 

 Inch of coarse soil and place on top of 

 this an inch of rich soil mixed with one- 

 fifth sand. Level the soil with a piece 

 of lath or other smooth wood, and you 

 will then be ready to sow. 



