Decembek 7, 1905. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



145 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, December 6. — Leaf lettuce, 

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

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



New York, December 5. — Cucumbers, 

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

 No. 2, $1.50 to $3.50 box; head lettuce, 

 20c to 60c doz.; radishes, $2.50 to $3.50 

 100 bunches; mushrooms, 20c to 60c; 

 tomatoes, 10c to 15c lb. 



Boston, December 5.— Tomatoes, 20c 

 lb.; lettuce, 25c to 35c doz.; radishes, 

 $2 to $2.50 box; parsley, $2 box; cu- 

 ciunl)ers, $1.50 to $6.50 box. 



House of Seedling Geranium Ora D. Hill, Grown by E. C. Hill. 



the case of L. candidum should be early 

 in August, and planted a few inches 

 apart in a bed of loam and leaf-mold, 

 giving a good coating of sand to the bulb- 

 lets. Do not use any manure in the soil. 

 Keep the ground free of weeds and give 

 a light Winter coating of leaves or 

 meadow hay and in two or three years 

 they will attain flowering size. The 

 flowering size bulbs of this lily are, 

 however, to be purchased at such low 

 rates that it hardly pays to raise theut 

 from bulblets, although in the case of 

 L. Henryi and some of the choicer sorts 

 it ought to be done. W. N. C. 



A NEW GERANIUM. 



E. C. Hill, of Erie, Pa., says that the 

 house of geraniums shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration was not in espe- 

 cially good shape when photographed 

 July 3, 1905, though it makes an ex- 

 ceedingly fine showing. The variety i« 

 Ora D. Hill, a semi-double cerise seed- 

 ling which originated with Mr. Hill. He 

 has grown it several years and finds it a 

 more serviceable variety than any other 

 on the place, and a number of those in 

 the trade who have visited him agree 

 with his opinion of its usefulness. It is 

 a very easy grower and free bloomer, the 

 large trusses of bloom being carried well 

 above the foliage on stems a foot long. 

 It is very easy to propagate and is en- 

 during both as a bedder and as a house 

 plant. Mr, Hill proposes to let the trade 

 in on his good thing for next season and 

 IS busy propagating. 



his last name by anyone wlio has ever 

 met liim before. He is Leonard to 

 everybody in the trade. In the center is 

 Mr. Kill's assistant, counselor and best 

 friend, Archibald ('. Spencer, none tiie 

 less good natured for being thinner and 

 never addressed by anytiiing but an 

 abbreviation of his given name by any- 

 one but the Greeks who want to buy 

 Beauties on a stift' market. They are a 

 splendid team. The picture is com- 

 pleted by the presence of Cliarles Mc- 

 Clooii, who is known to most of the 

 florists in Chicago and to many outside, 

 partly because of the warm friendshij) 

 which exists between Mr. Kill, Mr. Spen- 

 cer and himself, and partly because of 

 his service in several seasons as press 

 agent for the flower show. At present 

 he is advertising and press representa- 

 tive of the Auditorium theater. 



Turners Falls, Mass. — J. J. Long 

 has been in the hospital the greater part 

 of the past year but is now feeling 

 much better. 



The Review will send ^Montgomery 

 on Grafted Roses on receipt of 25 cents. 



POLLINATING CUCUMBERS. 



WiJl you pleas^o inform me if there is 

 i an artificial way of fertilizing cucumber 

 I blossoms in mid-winter? I am not pre- 

 y pared to keep bees to visit the flowers. 

 I Are tliere any varieties which, grown 

 I together in a greenhouse, would fertilize 

 j (if themselves? W. L. L. 



1 answered a query recently regard- 

 ing the fertilizing of cucumber blossoms, 



i wliicli you will probably have seen. It 

 ought to fit your case. 



Tlio Unglish frame varieties of cucum- 



! Ixns do not require to be fertilized to 

 produce cucumbers for table use. They 

 attain full si/e without fertilizing but 



I of course produce no seed unless ferti- 



I lized; hence the necessity for fertiliz- 

 ing when growing for seed purposes. 

 There are several varieties in this class 

 but tlie most widely grown and most 

 popular variety is Telegraph. This class 

 (if cucumber is much longer than the 

 White Spine type and I consider better 

 in quality but for some unaccountable 

 reason they have never become popular 

 on this side of the Atlantic for market 

 purposes, though extensively and almost 

 exclusively grown in private gardens. 



W. S. Croydon. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



Cauliflower delights in a very rich soil, 

 say three parts of good turfy loam to one 

 of manure and richer if you have plenty 



THREE JOLLY GOOD FELLOWS. 



The accompanying illustration is from 

 a photograph by Fred Klingle, who 

 debits and credits for Peter Reinberg, 

 at the Chicago office, where he rounded 

 up this "three of a kind." Everyone 

 who visits Chicago, and many others, 

 knows the two at the right. The one 

 you would know by 'his looks to be good 

 °^tu^ed is Leonard Kill, brother-in law 

 of Mr. Reinberg, his next-^oor-neighbor 

 and manager of the selling end of his 

 business. His populasity. is so universal 

 that the dignity which might be ex- 

 pected to result from such responsibili- 

 ties as so large a business entails is 

 somewhat lost sig^t of and there are 

 those who doubt if he is addressed by 



Three Very Excellent Gentlemen. 



