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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



JUNB 9, 1904. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



Cucumbers are worth at Chicago from 

 $1.50 to $4 per hundred, leaf lettuce from 

 15 to 25 cents a case. 



Lettuce growers who have tried it 

 speak enthusiastically of To-bak-ine 

 liquid as a means of keeping the houses 

 free from insects. 



SEND IN YOUR QUERIES. 



During the hot summer months the 

 vegetable! forcer finds himself with 

 empty houses and little to do but plan 

 for next season. If there are any de- 

 tails of the work with which he is not 

 thoroughly acquainted, he should write 

 out a statement of the points about 

 which he is in doubt and send it to the 

 Review. It will be answered by one of 

 the most expert vegetable forcers in 

 the country. This opportunity to get a 

 personal opinion on an individual case 

 is open to every subscriber of the Re- 

 view. Sign your name, but not for 

 publication. 



SOILS FOR CUCUMBERS. 



Cucumbers, unlike lettuce, are not 

 susceptible to minute variations in soil 

 texture. A great variety of soils can 

 he utilized successfully for cucumbers if 

 plenty of organic matter is supplied. 

 Those who make a specialty of growing 

 cucumbers under glass general!}' use a 

 soil made up of three-fourths decomposed 

 sod and one-fourth horse manure. This 

 makes a light soil, containing a large 

 amount of organic matter, which is re- 

 plenished each year by adding more horse 

 manure. 



The fertilizers usually employed are 

 ground bone, wood ashes, and frequently 

 some" complete commercial fertilizer. As 

 far as our observations go, cucumbers 

 do not respond so readily to fertilizers 

 as many other plants, i. e., the applica- 

 tion of a fertilizer does not manifest itr 

 self so conspicuously as in other plants. 

 They do respond, however, quite freely 

 to the influence of sterilized soil. In 

 supplying organic matter to the soil we 

 have frequently practiced sowing some 

 leguminous crop such as white lupine 

 or Canada peas in the beds during Aug- 

 ust and September when the houses were 

 empty, and turning this crop under be- 

 fore replanting. Both of these plants 

 are rapid growers, and the lupine readi- 

 ly forms large nodules, which, when 

 turned under, supply the soil with nit- 

 rogen as well as organic matter. — Geo. 

 E. Stone in Bulletin of Hatch Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Shippensbueg, Pa. — The Byer Floral 

 Co. has started building greenhouses and 

 auxiliary structures preparatory to en- 

 tering the wholesale florist and seed 

 business. They already have quite a 

 stock of vegetable plants. 



Elizabeth, N. J. — In the suit of the 

 Elizabeth Nursery Co. against the Lis- 

 ter Agricultural Chemical Works, of 

 Newark, the jury returned a verdict 

 awarding the plaintiff damages in the 

 sum of $5,782.85. The contention was 

 that the use of impure bone meal in 

 the rose houses caused a loss for which 

 the seller of the fertilizer was respon- 

 sible. 



AMERICAN SEED TRADE ASSOOATION. 



Pres., S. F. WlUard, Wetherafleld, Conn.; Flret 

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

 S«c'y and Treas., C. B. Kendel, Cleveland, O. 

 The Wd annual meeting will l)e held at St. LoulB, 

 Mo., June, 1901. 



There has been no ' ' corn weather ' ' so 

 far, 



S. F. Leonard, Chicago, was a recent 

 visitor at Louisville, Ky. 



Thomas A. Cox, of the Cox Seed 

 Co., San Francisco, is on a six weeks' 

 eastern trip. 



The anticipated reports of poor pros- 

 pects for cabbage seed crops are com-^ 

 ing to hand. 



Arnold Eingier, of W. W. Barnard & 

 Co., Chicago, has returned from a trip 

 to New York. 



Beports from the pea growing dis- 

 tricts are to the effect that so far every- 

 thing is satisfactory. 



The sweet corn contest is over. It is 

 said, however, that there sMU remain a 

 few lots to be picked up at several points 

 in Nebraska. 



Sufficient acreage for a normal 

 year's crop of cucumbers has been se- 

 cured, but this is no assurance that the 

 delivery will be more than twenty-five 

 per cent. 



Scarcely a week goes by without an 

 importer of canary seed protesting that 

 it is free of duty as grass seed. Nord- 

 linger vs. United States (T. D. 24976) 

 decided this contention in the negative. 



James G. Ficklin, of King City, Mo., 

 is known locally as the ' ' blue grass 

 king" as he harvests 15,000 to 20,000 

 bushels of blue grass in Gentry, Andrew, 

 De Kalb, Nodaway and Worth counties. 



For twenty years there has not been a 

 season which has shown so much unpre- 

 pared garden land in the vicinity of Chi- 

 cago at this date as the present one. This 

 only shows how backward the spring has 

 been. 



Reports from the different onion set 

 points show the growth far enough along 

 to give something of an idea what the 

 crop may be. At Chicago many fields 

 on the low grounds, where lumps threw 

 the seed drill out, are ragged and un- 

 even. The damp, cool weather of the 

 past week has pushed the weeds along 

 faster than the onions, causing extra ex- 

 pense to keep the ground clean. The 

 crop is two weeks behind last year, with 

 the acreage less, and a prospect for two- 

 thirds of last year 's harvest. At Indiana- 

 polis and vicinity the acreage is a trifle 

 more than last year, condition of crop 

 not up to last year for evenness of growth 

 and the prospect is for less than last 

 year's harvest. At Louisville, Ky., the 

 stand is not up to the average, some acres 

 plowed up, and original planting less 



than last year, with the prospect for a 

 crop not as good as a year ago at this 

 time. 



THE SEED TRADE. 



G. B. McVay, president of the Amzi 

 Godden Co., Birmingham, Ala., writes as 

 follows under date of June 6: 



The season of 1903-4, which has just 

 now passed with us, has been a very 

 curious one in several particulars. The 

 demand for goods in our line early in 

 the season bid fair to exceed any previ- 

 ous year's sales, but the unusually cold, 

 dry spring very much retarded our busi- 

 ness and the final conclusion has been 

 most unprofitable and unsatisfactory. 



The acreage in most all vegetable 

 crops has been largely curtailed, partly 

 owing to high prospective prices for 

 cotton and the unfavorable season for 

 vegetable crops. This is notably ap- 

 parent in vine seed crops such as melons, 

 canteloupes, squashes and cucumbers. 

 The season has been most unfavorable 

 for the germination of this particular 

 class of seeds, which has something to do 

 Avith the limited acreage planted. 



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