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ThcWcckly Florists' Review. 



Decembeb 29, 1904. 



Seed Trade News. 



AMCRKAN SCED TRADC ASSOCUTKW. 



Prea., C. N. Pagre, Des Moines. la ; First Vlce- 

 Pres., L. Ii. May, St. Paul; Sec'y and Treas., C. E. 

 Kendel, Cleveland. The 23rd annual meeting 

 vrill be held on the St. Lawrence, June, 1905. 



A REPORT is current in Chicago that an 

 effort is being made by a syndicate of 

 «peculators to obtain practical control of 

 fliazseed supplies. 



A. LeCoq & Co., Darmstadt, Germany, 

 advise that they have been awarded the 

 grand prize for their exhibit of grass, 

 clover, field and forest tree seeds at the 

 St. Louis World 's Fair. 



The first of the eastern general seed 

 catalogues to come to hand was that of 

 the D. Landreth Seed Co., mailed Decem- 

 ber 20. Barteldes & Co. mailed their 

 catalogue December 21. 



THE ROUTZAHN LOSS. 



The loss in the fire of the Eoutzahn 

 Seed Co., Arroyo Grande, Cal., Decem- 

 ber 15, is supplemented by the following 

 telegram received December 27. 



Total loss, 120,000; Insurance, $12,000. Con- 

 tents of warehouse, pole beans, vine seeds, 

 flower seeds. Stock seeds saved. Company not 

 orlppled for 1906 business. 



CATALOGUES RECEIVED. 



D. Landreth Seed Co., Bristol, Pa., 

 seeds; H. H. Groff, Simcoe, Ont., glad- 

 ioli; W. F. Kasting, Buffalo, cut flowers 

 and green; F. Barteldes & Co., Lawrence, 

 Kan., seeds; Richard Vincent, Jr., & 

 Son, White Marsh, Md., geraniums; Flo- 

 ral Gem Nursery, Webster, Tex., roses. 



Calendars. 



We acknowledge receipt of handsome 

 calendars from E. H. Hunt, Chicago; 

 Bums Boiler & Mfg. Co., West Bfe Pere, 

 Wis. 



Y^etable Forcing. 



CYANIDE AGAIN. 



In the Review of November 10 you 

 speak of the quantity of cyanide to use 

 for 2,000 cubic feet of space and of the 

 method of using it. I have two houses, 

 each of 10,000 cubic feet or over. I grow 

 Grand Rapids lettuce and every winter 

 am more or less troubled by green fly. 

 Sometimes we are able to control it by 

 smoking with tobacco stems. This sea- 

 son it is unusually bad and excessive 

 smoking is hard on the lettuce, so I hail 

 with delight a sure and safe destroyer. 

 Will you tell me how you would use the 

 cyanide so as to safely disseminate the 

 fumes through so large a space f Each 

 house is 24x100. W. M. P. 



In a house 24x100 feet I would advise 

 the use of three jars and it will be better 

 to have two-gallon jars to prevent boil- 

 ing over. Have one jar at each end of 

 the house and one in the center. Use one 

 pint of acid and two and one-half ounces 

 of cyanide for each jar. Put the acid 

 with an equal amount of water together 

 in each jar. Then begin at the end far- 

 thest from the door Ut drop in the cya- 

 nide. Have this wrapped up in thick pa- 

 pers, two and one-half ounces in each. 



RATEKIN'S Seed House 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWEF^S 



SEED CORN, OATS, SPELTZ, BARLEY 



SHENANDOAH, IOWA. 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



LEONARD SEED CO. 



WHOLESALE SEED GROWERS 



ONION SETS ^„,«-^^ 

 79 and 81 East Kinzie Street, t>I1IV>/%UlV 



Mention The Review when yon write. 



( Burpee's Seeds Grow | 



Drop in paper and all and you will be 

 able to drop in all three and get to the 

 door before the acid has eaten through 

 the paper, which it has to do before the 

 gas begins to be given off. Make sure 

 to lock the door, so that no one can get 

 in. Operate at night and by next morn- 

 ing the house can safely be entered. Be 

 sure that the foliage is dry and the tem- 

 perature below 60 degrees, which it 

 would of course be in a lettuce house. 

 The quantity given here is not so strong 

 as usually recommended but I have found 

 it quite strong enough to kill green fly. 

 If your house is very close and the night 

 still a smaller quantity might do the work 

 but I have used it stronger than this, 

 when experimenting with no bad results. 



W. S. Croydon. 

 [We fear that Mr. Croydon has not 

 made sufficiently clear, in the above, the 

 deadly character of the gas. Under no 

 circumstances delay one instant in get- 

 ting out of the house after having 

 dropped the package of cyanide in the 

 jar of acid. — Ed.] 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Dec. 28. — Cucumbers, 50c to 

 $1.15 doz. ; leaf lettuce, 30c to 40c case ; 

 head lettuce, $3 to $4 bbl. 



Boston, Dec. 27. — Cucumbers, $5 to 

 $12 box; lettuce, 25c to 35c doz.; rad- 

 ishes, 25c to 35c doz. bunches; tomatoes, 

 30c lb. ; mushrooms, 75c to 80c lb. ; mint, 

 $1.25 doz.; parsley, 25c box; asparagus, 

 $5 doz. bunches. 



LETTUCE. 



The season so far has been favor- 

 able for the growth of lettuce, as we 

 have had very little dull, damp weather, 

 but we are not out of the woods until we 

 get through the month of January. So 

 far this season we have had no trouble 

 whatever with leaf bum or similar dis- 

 eases. As a preventive against these it 

 is well to keep the soil rather on the 

 dry side now, to keep the plants firm and 

 to keep the soil weU stirred and all de- 

 cayed or yellow leaves picked off as soon 

 as they appear. 



If raised benches are employed for 

 growing lettuce it will be necessary to 

 apply water oftener to prevent the beds 

 from becoming dry. I think this fre- 



HtrttthM Brand. 



LONG ISLAND CABBAGE SEED 

 AMERICAN CAULIFLOWER SEED 



And other Special Seed Stocks. 



Francis Brill - Grower, 



Hempstead, L I., Kew York. 



Mention Th* Rerlew when you wri te. 



RALPH M. WARD & GO. 



Exporters and Importers 

 17 Battery Place, NEW YORK 



Bulbs, Plants. 



Valley our Spiclilly *'°'if;°.7.':.''3:.d. 



Mention The BeTlew when yon write. 



Gladiolus Bolbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than tbe reit. 

 TBT TBKVL. 



Cushman Gladiolus Go. 



STIiVAVZA, OHIO. 



Mention Tho 11»t1»w whpp yon writ*. 



quent application of water necessary for 

 raised benches is one of the chief rea- 

 sons why lettuce does not succeed as well 

 on benches as in solid beds and I would 

 advise those who go into lettuce growing 

 to any extent to try, if possible, and do 

 away with raised benches altogether and 

 adopt the solid beds. In the solid bed 

 the natural moisture of the soil is a 

 great advantage. The fact that in the 

 solid bed the roots of the plants are 

 cooler than the overhead temperature is 

 also very advantageous. 



It is not always possible to arrange 

 the benches just as one would want them. 

 A good many small growers grow lettuce 

 as a sort of catch crop and most depend 

 on the benches for growing other crops 

 at other times. Where the Grand Rapids 

 variety can be sold it is undoubtedly the 

 best variety for bench purposes. But the 

 grower is often confronted with a de- 

 mand for head lettuce only and it is 

 often no easy matter to produce good 

 head lettuce in raised benches. The plants 

 do just as well up to a certain stage. It 



