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726 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



August 17, 19Q5. 



Vegetable Forciog. 



PLANTING CUCUMBERS. 



One of the most prevalent troubles 

 that beset cucumber plants is damping 

 at the neck, and to prevent this it is 

 necessary to use great care in planting 

 80 that there will be no danger of an 

 over-supply of moisture lodging around 

 the necks of the plants. "Where raised 

 benches are used, and these are the best 

 for cucumber culture, there is not so 

 much danger, but in solid beds, unless 

 the necks of the plants are raised well 

 above the level of the soil, trouble is 

 apt to occur. "When raised benches are 

 employed the best plan is not to fill the 

 bench up as would be done for other 

 crops but to place a few shovelfuls of 

 soil in a round pile where the plants are 

 to be set. This soil should be a good, 

 turfy loam not too finely broken; the 

 rougher the better, as it insures the 

 freer passage of water. It is necessary 

 to have some well decomposed manure 

 mixed with the soil and this should also 

 be lumpy rather than finely broken. 



A great deal depends upon the nature 

 of the soil at command. Some soils are 

 much more productive of fungus dis- 

 eases than others, but as a rule soils 

 from high ground are the best to use. 

 Some claim a stiff, retentive soil is 

 the more productive of disease, but we 

 have seen cucumbers attacked just as 

 badly when a light, sandy soil was used, 

 so that it is hard to judge the soil from 

 general composition; the only means of 

 knowing is by trial. Should a trial prove 

 that the plants are attacked by stem-rot 

 in the soil used, it is a good plan to use 

 a little air-slaked lime in the soil, mix- 

 ing it in some time previous to using, 

 and after the plants are set to use some 

 powdered charcoal around the necks of 

 the plants taking care when watering to 

 keep the charcoal dry. 



It will be some time after planting 

 before the plants can utilize the little 

 heaps of soil provided but as soon as 

 the roots begin to appear on the outside 

 more soil should be added, only a few 

 inches at a time however, and according 

 as the plants attain size. The soil sup- 

 plied in this way may be made a little 

 richer than that first used, bone-meal or 

 some other good commercial fertilizer 

 being employed. 



"Where solid beds are used it is neces- 

 sary that some means be adopted to con- 

 fine the roots of the plants somewhat as 

 cucumber plants fruit much more freely 

 and run less to growth when the quan- 

 tity of soil is limited and root-space 

 curtailed. 



The plants should be set at distances 

 of four feet apart along the trellis to 

 which they are to be trained, and where 

 several trellises are used in the width 

 of the house they should be far enough 

 apart so that the one row will not throw 

 too much shade over the other. The dis- 

 tance will depend a good deal on the 

 width and construction of the house but 

 it is well to, if possible, have the trellises 

 at least feur feet apart. 



A house eighteen feet wide will ac- 

 commodate four rows of plants, the 

 passage-ways acting as intervening 

 space. W. S. Croydon. 



Queen Beatrice 



DREER'S ARAICARIAS 



We have a fine stock of these 

 which 'we offer at very favorable 

 prices. Now is the time to lay 

 in your supply and secure the 

 benefit of the summer's growth. 



ARAUGARIA EXGELSA 



Inch pots Helgbt Tiers Each 



4 6 to einchet 2 10.86 



5 8 to lOinobes 8 60 



6 12 toUincbes Sto4 76 



6 li to 16incbeB......4 1.00 



6 16 to ISincbee 4 1.85 



7 20 to24incbeB 4toB 1.60 



Araucaria Excelsa Glauca 



Incbpots Heigbt Tiers Escb 



6 Sincbes 2 tO.76 



6 13 tolSIncbes 8 1.26 



7 15tol8incbes 4 1.76 



7 22 to24iDCbe8 4 to 6 2.00 



Araucaria Robusta Gompacta 



Incbpots Heigbt Tiers Each 



6 Winches 2 to 3 $1.26 



6 12 inches 8 1.60 



7 16 inches 3 to 4 2.00 



For complete Hat of Seeds, Plants 

 and Bul1>B tor Immediate plantiniTi see 

 car Wholesale Price Ztlst. 



HENRY A. DREER 



ABAUCABIA BZCEX.SA. ^ 1 4 Chestflut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 



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 BRIDES, BRIDESMAIDS, GOLDEN GATES, KAISERINS, 3>^-inch 

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20,000 Own Root ROSES 



SUNRISE, 3-inch pots, $9.00 per 100. 

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Carnations 



FIELD PLANTS 

 CLEAN AND HEALTHY 



Boston Market (best white), Glacier 

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SOLD OUT. 



ROBERT C. PYE 



Nyack, N. Y. 



ROSES 



Ohatenay. Golden Gate and Uncle John. 2^- 

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Chrysanthemums 



BOOTBB OXTTTUrOS of ttae following— 

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