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Mabch 2, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



821 



ers exhibited as follows: Lady Boun- 

 tiful, The Belle and a pink sport, by 

 W. J. Palmer & Son; Enchantress, Flam- 

 ingo and Harlowarden, by the William 

 Scott Co.; "^hite Lawson and Enchant- 

 ress, from F. R. Pierson Co. This vase of 

 White Lawson was grand, and would 

 about convince you that it was all the 

 white you needed. Fred B. Lewis, of 

 Lockport, sent vases of Red Lawson and 

 Enchantress. Mr. Witterstaetter sent a 

 few flowers of several beautiful varie- 

 ties, besides a grand vase of Aristocrat, 

 and it is an aristocrat among carnations, 

 from almost every point of view. There 

 was seedling 1021 B, a finely formed, 

 pleasing shade of the Scott pink, and 

 a very large, well shaped scarlet with- 

 out name or number. H. Weber & Sons 

 sent My Maryland, which to us ap- 

 peared a grand white in size, form and 

 stem, but showed the effects of such a 

 long journey and the judges thought it 

 unfair to score it. The writer has been 

 through this scoring business a good 

 many times and, while we can see no 

 other way to convey the apparent quali- 

 ties of the exhibits before the judges, 

 yet how far short it comes of giving all 

 the desirable qualities of the new va- 

 rieties! The judges are not supposed 

 to take into consideration what they 

 know personally of the habit or free 

 flowering qualities of the variety, 

 whether it has suffered on the journey, 

 whether it is just unpacked or has had 

 a few hours in a. cool room to straighten 

 out, whether the grower had a thou- 

 sand blooms to select fifty from, or 

 fifty was about all he could pick. When 

 it comes to awarding a premium for the 

 best fifty white or scarlet, then it is 

 quite difi"erent. It is partly to variety, 

 but mostly to high culture that the 

 premium rightly goes, and much could 

 be said on this point. Yet, as there is 

 nothing better in sigrht, this fallacious 

 plan of scoring is the best we can do, 

 and here is the result of our humble 

 efi'orts : 



Exhibitor. Variety. Points. 



Guttman & Weber Victory 87 



Lake View Rose Garden. Gladys 87 



i^tten & Co Mikado 81 



^urchle . Fred Bnrkl 85 



S" Witterstaetter After Glow 88 



£• J?- P'eraon Co Dahelm 84 



D- ^V.-.?'"?"" ^ Var. Lawson 89 



5" Wtterstaetter Aristocrat M 



B. Witterstaetter J.A.Valentine 87 



y* -i; ^^"^J * Son.... Red Lawson 88 



& Y- Y^^ Lieut. Peary 89 



Ward and Thompson Robert Craig 93 



We would have liked an exhibit of 

 Fiancee and the great Cardinal, but 

 they did not come. Gladys has not 

 been much advertised or seen. It is a 

 very fine white, which Mr. Roney says 

 is remarkably free, and Mr. Roney was 

 with us. \y s_ 



V^etable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, March 1.— Cucumbers, 35c to 

 $1.50 doz.; head lettuce, $2 to $5 bbl.; 

 leaf lettuce, 18c to 20c case: tomatoes, 

 $2. to $4 case. 



Boston, Feb. 28.— Lettuce, 75c to $2 

 box of three doz. heads; parsley, $1 

 bushel; mint, 50c to 75e doz.; radishes, 

 25c doz. bunches; cucumbers, $4 to $10 

 box; tomatoes, 40c to 50c lb.; spinach, 

 $1.50 bushel; dandelions, $1.75 to $2 



Carnation Winsor, Purchased by the F. R. Pierson G>. 



bushel; mushrooms, 60c lb.; rhubarb, 

 6c lb. 



VEGETABLES UNDER GLASS. 



[A paper by W. W. Rawson. read b<'fore the 

 Boston Gardeners' and Florists' Club, February 

 21, 1905.] 



Increase in Glass. 



In looking back over a period of twen- 

 ty-five years we can see many changes 

 that have taken place, not only in busi- 

 ness, but in the growing of crops and 

 the quantity grown; also in the manner 

 of selling them. The idea has been and 

 is growing more so, of concentration; 

 that is, growing more and larger crops 

 on smaller area. In order to do so the 

 I'se of greenhouses has become more and 

 more extended and today no one in the 

 vicinity of large markets can afford to 

 be without a number of houses. There 

 are today fully twenty times as many as 

 there were twenty-five years ago; then I 

 had three, today thirty-six. Not only 

 has the number increased, but also the 

 knowledge of the management of them 

 has become more universal. 



Number of Oops. 



In most houses today three crops are 

 grown and in some cases four; the first 

 is lettuce, the second either lettuce or 

 radishes and the third cucumbers. When 

 four are grown, three are lettuce and the 



fourth cucumbers, but the crop is some- 

 what later than when only two crops of 

 lettuce are grown before the cucumbers; 

 that is, the first crop of lettuce is pulled 

 for market about November 1, the sec- 

 ond about the middle of January, then 

 the crop of cucumbers is set out and 

 they will begin to bear about March 1. 

 Where three crops of lettuce are grown, 

 the first cucumbers will not be picked 

 before April 10. When there are but 

 few houses, two crops of lettuce is the 

 better plan, but if there are a number 

 of houses both ways are adopted. 



The consumption of these two vege- 

 tables has increased many fold within 

 the past twenty-five years and the quality 

 has also improved. So it has with many 

 of our popular flowers. It is very diflS- 

 cult to grow good headed lettuce in the 

 months of December and January be- 

 cause the weather is very cold and 

 stormy and the nights are long and dark; 

 We try to off-set some of this by the 

 use of electric light, but it is not quite 

 equal to the sun. The crop will grow 

 as much in one day in March as two 

 days in December and January. 



The crops of lettuce and cucumbers are 

 very unhke; one requires a low tem- 

 perature, the other a high temperature, 

 and for that reason very few houses are 

 run to cucumbers in the months of De- 

 cember and January. It would require 



