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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil V, 1906. 



y^etable Forcing. 



All forcers of cucumbers and toma- 

 toes will bo interested in the article on 

 "The Greenhouse White Fly," which 

 appears elsewhere in this issue. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, April 5.— Leaf lettuce 45c 

 to 50o case; head lettuce, $2 to $4 bbl.: 

 cucumbers, 35c to $1.75 doz, 



Boston, April 4.— Lettuce, $1.25 to 

 $3 box; spinach, 50c to 75c bu.; aspara- 

 gus, 40o bunch; cucumbers, $3 to $10 

 box; tomatoes, 40c lb,; rhubarb, 3c to 

 6c lb.; beets, $1.50 to $1.75 doz. 

 bunches; parsley, $1 bu.; mushrooms, 80c 

 to $1,10 lb. ' 



New York, April 3.— No. 1 cucumbers 

 $1.25 to $1,75 doz.; lettuce, 50c to 

 $1.50 doz,; mushrooms, 25c to 60c lb.; 

 radishes, $2 to $3.50 hundred bunches; 

 tomatoes, 10c to 30c lb. 



NITRATE OF SODA. 



What effect would about 500 pounds 

 of nitrate of soda have on a piece of 

 ground or a greenhouse 32x200? The 

 ground had never been broken up be- 

 fore and was heavily manured in the 

 first place. When the lettuce came up 

 or was transplanted and had taken a 

 good hold, the nitrate of soda was put 

 on, not mixed in water at all, but put 

 on the ground and worked in. The 

 first crop had about 250 pounds and 

 the second the same. The first crop 

 was good but the second crop, of let- 

 tuce, was no good at all. Can you tell 

 us what the effect will be on a third 

 cropf G, & S, 



Nitrate of soda is used at the rate 

 of about 300 pounds to an acre, so you 

 have certainly been using it pretty freely 

 when you have put 500 pounds on that 

 small patch, and I am not surprised that 

 your crop of lettuce has failed. The 

 ■oil would get so overcharged with it 

 that it would be impossible for the 

 plants to make healthy roots. I would 

 not advise planting a third crop 

 of lettuce. Better grow some gross 

 feeding crop, such as cauliflower, for a 

 time to help work the surplus nitrate 

 out of the soil. Before planting such 

 crop I think it would be advisable to 

 give your soil a thorough soaking of 

 water, so as to wash part of the manure 

 out or it may prove too hot quarters 

 even for such a gross feeder as cauli- 

 flower, w. 8. Croydon. 



GREENHOUSE BEETS. 



Though beets can be grown in a let- 

 tuce house temperature, it is not the 

 most profitable temperature to grow them 

 in, as growth is too slow. Houses that 

 have grown lettuce all winter and are 

 now getting a little too warm for that 

 crop can be employed to better advant- 

 age if devoted to beets now. It should 

 be quite easy to run such houses at a 

 night temperature of from 55 to 60 de- 

 grees from this out without hard firing 

 and the sun heat on most days will be 

 sufficient to maintain a day temperature 

 of from 75 to 80 degrees, at which beets 

 ought to mature in about four weeks 

 from time of planting, providing good 

 plants are used. 



L 



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The seed could be sown right in the 

 bench and thinned to the proper dist- 

 ance if necessary, but the better pian is 

 to sow in flats and transplant to the 

 bench afterwards. This is a consider- 

 able saving of bench room, as for nearly 

 half the period of their growth they are 

 occupying but small space in the flats. 

 If the seeds are sown rather thinly in 

 the flats it will not be necessary to 

 prick them over until they are large 

 enough to be set in the bench, but if by 

 some mischance they are too thick in 

 the flats and are thought to be in dan- 

 ger of becoming drawn and weakly be- 

 fore they are large enough for setting 

 in the bench, it would certainly be better 

 to prick them over and insure good 

 plants. 



Rich soil is unnecessary for the growth 

 of this crop, so that any soil in which 

 some other crop had been grown would 

 be all right without the addition of ma- 

 nure unless the soil was very much ex- 

 hausted, in which case the addition of a 

 little well decomposed manure would be 

 advantageous. 



There are several varieties of the 

 Egyptian type, such as Crosby's, Eclipse, 



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OolofB : Wbite, Daybreak and mixed. $2.00 



Ser 1000 seeds. No less tban 1000 seeds sold. 

 To Airsnts. Don't send cbecks. 



J. H. LOCK, Originator, 41 Manchester Ave. 



TORONTO, ONT. 



Mention Tha Rerlew when yon write. 



etc., all of which are adapted for the 

 purpose in hand, being round, dark red 

 and quick maturing. 



Beets as a rule are not much troubled 

 with insects. Greenfly will sometimes 

 attack them if the atmosphere of the 

 house is kept too dry. Should these make 

 their appearance, tobacco, or any of the 

 ordinary remedies can be employed to 

 keep them in check, but with plenty of 

 moisture both atmospheric and at the 

 root there will be little danger from any 

 serious attack. W. S. Croydon. 



Whilb we would all like to curtail ex- 

 penses, I believe it is no economy to try 

 to get along without the Eeview.— ^eo. 

 D. Dudley, New Market, N. H. 



