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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



NOVEMDBB 30, 1906. 



Y^etable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



New York, November 27. — Boston 

 cucumber, No. 1, 75c to 90c doz. ; No. 

 2, $1.50 to $3 box; Boston head lettuce, 

 prime, 60c to 85c doz. ; poor to good, 

 25c to 50c; radishes, $2,50 and $3.50 per 

 100 bunches; mushrooms 25c to 65c lb.; 

 tomatoes, 10c to 15c lb. 



Chicago, November 28. — Leaf lettuce, 

 10c to 20c case; head lettuce, $3 to $5 

 bbl. ; cucumbers, 75c to $1.15 doz. 



Boston, November 27. — Lettuce, 35c 

 to 50c. doz.; cucumbers, $2 to $8 box; 

 tomatoes, 15c to 25c lb.; mushrooms, 50c 

 to 60c lb. 



THRIPS ON LETTUCE. 



I am up against a little brown mite, 

 so small that one can hardly see it. 

 They can jump about an inch. Water 

 does not hurt them and they seem to 

 fatten on tobacco smoke. But they get 

 away with the small lettuce plants very 

 rapidly. They suck the juices and the 

 leaf fades away. Can you help me out? 

 J. -J. T. 



I think this little jumping customer 

 must be a species of thrip, of which there 

 are several that prove quite troublesome 

 on different species and varieties of 

 greenhouse plants. In one of the species 

 the mature insect, which is only about 

 one-twentietli of an inch long when he 

 attains his full growth, ia of a dull brown 

 color, while the young are dull yellow. 

 This is probably the one that has taken 

 up his abode on your lettuce plants. 



All thrips are much alike in their 

 tenacity of life and are one of the 

 hardest insect pests to be rid of. They 

 will survive fumigating with hydro- 

 cyanic gas strong enough to kill most 

 any other insect, and I have found them 

 alive after the gas had been applied 

 strong enough to injure the plants. 

 Fine tobacco jiowder dusted over the 

 plants seems to make their habitation 

 uncomfortable and will chase them 

 quicker than anything I know. 



As a rule, however, they are not very 

 troublesome in a lettuce house tempera- 

 ture, 1 have noticed that they are most 

 trouble on small lettuce plants when 

 these have been started and kept for 

 some time in a higher temperature than 

 that usually maintained in a lettuce 

 house. A change of temperature, though 

 it may check the growth of the plants 

 for the time being, will usually serve 

 the purpose of getting rid of thrips. I 

 have often set the seed pans in a cold 

 frame, just protecting them from frost, 

 for a week or so and found that it will 

 upset the family arrangements of Mr, 

 Thrip, The plants will soon regain lost 

 ground when brought back into a lettuce 

 house temperature. 



Though it may not apply to your case, 

 it is quite a common custom to start let- 

 tuce seeds in a warm house and keep 

 them there until the plants are ready for 

 the first pricking out ; and some even keep 

 them there after this, but it is a mistake. 

 The attack of thrips is but one of the 

 several disadvantages to which the 

 plants are subjected under such treat- 

 ment. It is much better to start the 

 plants in a normal temperature, even 

 although they take a little longer to 

 reach the planting stage. The plants 



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In starting the plants in a house other 

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 thrips from other plants with which they 

 come in contact. They may not be 

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