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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



March 8, 1906. 



Y^etable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Marcli 7.— Cucumbers, $1.20 

 to $1.75 doz. ; leaf lettuce, 35c to 45c 

 case; head lettuce, $3 to $5 bbl.; toma- 

 toes, $3.50 to $5 <'ase. 



New York. March 5.— Boston cucum- 

 bers, No, 1, $1.50 to $2.25 doz.; No. 2, 

 $4 to $S box; head lettuce, 50c to $1 

 doz.; radishes, $2 to $3 100 bunches; 

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

 to 50c doz. bunches; mint, 50c to 75c 

 doz. bunches. 



Boston, Mass., March 5.— Cucumbers, 

 $5 to $15 box; lettuce, 25c to 75c doz.; 

 Iiothouse ."pinach, $1 box; parsley, $1.50 

 to $2 box; bunch beets, $1.25 doz.; rhu- 

 barb, 5c lb.; tomatoes, 50c lb.; mush- 

 rooms, $1 to $2 per four-pound basket; 

 mint, 60c doz. bunches. 



GREEN LICE ON LETTUCE. 



Wh^t is the best way to kill the green 

 lice on lettuce ^'rowing in greenhouses, 

 and where can the preparation be 

 bought.' 1 have used tobacco s.noke, 

 but don't like it. W. E. B. 



Hydrocyanic acid gas is the cleanest 

 and surest insecticide we have tried for 

 this purpose. So much has been written 

 about this recently that no doubt you 

 will be alive to the danger of handling 

 it. It is a deatlly poison if inhaled, but 

 if one keeps this in mind and gets out of 

 the house immediately after the cyanide 

 is dropped in the jar, locking the door 

 after, there is no more danger with it 

 than with anything else. We use it at 

 the rate of one ounce of cyanide, one-fifth 

 of a quart of sulphuric acid and the 

 same quantity of water as of acid to 

 2,000 cubic feet of space in the house. 

 Tlie water and acid are first placed to- 

 gether in a stone jar, Avhich is put near 

 the center of the house ; then the cyanide 

 is dropped in and, as I said before, the 

 operator gets out as quickly as possible. 

 He will have plenty of time to get out 

 before the acid is spread sufficiently 

 tiirough the air in the house without any 

 danger of its catching him. Be sure and 

 lock the door, so that no one can acci- 

 dentally go into the house. We operate 

 the last thing at night and by morning 

 the house can safely be entered. 



If the house is over fifty feet long, 

 the gas will be more evenly distributed 

 by using two jars. In a house 100 feet 

 long we would set the jars twenty-five 

 feet from each end and drop the cyanide 

 in the one farthest from the door first, 

 dropping it in the other in passing out. 

 Both jars should be made ready by hav- 

 ing the acid and water in them when 

 they are placed in position and nothing 

 left to do but drop the cyanide in. You 

 can procure the cyanide of potassium and 

 sulphuric acid at any drug store. The 

 acid need not be what is known as chem- 

 cially pure, what is known as the com- 

 mercial quality being just as good for 

 the purpose in hand. We have used noth- 

 ing else in the way of insecticides for 

 the last three years, and used at this 

 rate, have never had the lettuce hurt in 

 the least. Of course, a good deal will 

 dei>end on the closeness of your house. 

 If this is in any way open, a stronger 

 solution would be necessary, but try it 

 at this rate first and if it does not do 

 the work try it a litle stronger next time. 



W. S. Croydok. 



NEV YORK. 



The Market 



Last week was a trying one for the 

 market and in addition to the influence 

 of Lent, the culmination was a fierce 

 storm that completely spoiled the Satur- 

 day business. This was followed by a 

 veritable spring day, with warmth and 

 sunshine, to be followed Monday with 

 temperature below freezing. Memories 

 of the blizzard of March 12, 1888, are 

 still vivid. Nobody seems to be banking 

 on a very early spring, though signs 

 of it are many. 



Beauties are still scarce and the best 

 command a good figure, some holding at 

 60 cents. But the tendency is downward. 

 Brides and Maids barely hold at 10 

 cents for the finest and lower grades are 

 retrograding fast. Carnations have lost 

 twenty-five per cent and have gone as 

 low as they are likely to before Easter. 

 Novelties hold their own fairly well. 



Owing to bad weather and immense 

 shipments, violets were a drug on Satur- 

 day and the surplus fell as low as 15 

 cents a hundred. The top price is 50 



Here is a dollar for another year's 

 visits of 



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It is well worth the price, even to 

 those who only work for others. 

 It has been a true friend that visited 

 my home every Saturday. I congrat- 

 ulate every young man when The 

 Review finds its way to his home. 



OLAF PETERSON. 

 Cromwell, Conn., Feb. 26, 1906. 



cents. An average of 120 boxes daily in- 

 dicates the great supply the market is 

 called upon to receive. Bulbous stock is 

 enormous in quantity and a lot of it 

 from the south is now arriving. 



Orchids are growing scarce and will 

 be so from now on. 



Various Notes. 



Fern balls seem not yet to have gone 

 out of fashion. In the seed stores they 

 retail at 50 cents. In the department 

 stores the same stock apparently is 

 boomed at 25 cents. One of the most 

 successful departments in these big stores 

 is managed by Trefel, of Losier's, 

 Brooklyn. He often handles 25,000 vio- 

 lets in a day, and carnations and narcissi 

 in great abundance. Popular prices and 

 jiulicious advertising are the secrets of 

 his success. 



Eobert G. Wilson, of Brooklyn, will 

 open a wholesale and retail store on West 

 Thirtieth street, next door to McManus, 

 \'ith Arthur Dicre as manager. Mr. Wil- 

 son is a young man of great ambition 

 and energy and will succeed. 



The auctions begin at Elliott's Tues- 

 day, when he will offer hardy roses and 



shrubs, his first importation of the sea- 

 son. Every Tuesday and Friday the auc- 

 tions will continue until June. A week 

 later Cleary's Horticultuial Hall opens 

 with a sale of hardy stock. 



Harry Bunyard is back from the gold- 

 en west with his belt laden with many 

 scalps. 



H. H. Berger & Co. announce the 

 heaviest early demand in their quarter 

 century in the seed trade, 



A. J. Fellouris has leased the entire 

 building, 52 W. Twenty-eighth street, 

 next door to A. L. Young & Co., and 

 will open a branch of his business there 

 next month. He is tireless and attentive 

 to his business and deserves prosperity. 

 Improvements of the place are in prog- 

 ress. It is a good stand. 



Wm. Starke has leased the entire 

 building at 52 W. Twenty-ninth street 

 and will erect a conservatory. 



The Hinode Co., at Whitestone, are 

 erecting several new houses this spring 

 and making rapid progress. They have a 

 great stock for Easter, much of it al- 

 ready spoken for. 



C. Bonnet, of Bonnet & Blake, Brook- 

 lyn, has had a week's tussle with the 

 grip. His brother-in-law, John M. Lyons, 

 the rose grower of Madison, was stricken 

 last week with apoplexy and died the fol- 

 lowing day. Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Lyons 

 are sisters. 



The sympathy of the trade everywhere 

 goes out to F. L. Moore and family, of 

 Chatham, in the loss of their eldest son, 

 Ralph C. Moore, 24 years of age, a stu- 

 dent at Columbia College, a fine Greek 

 scholar and a young man of splendid 

 character and ability. He Avas highly 

 esteemed by all who knew him and gave 

 promise of a brilliant career. 



The veteran, Samuel Henshaw, was in 

 the city on Monday looking as young as 

 ever after his winter's hibernating and 

 overflowing with reminiscences. With 

 Julius Roehrs, Jr., and Wm. Plumb he 

 occupied the "amen corner" at Cleary's 

 and regaled his listeners with tales of 

 the potting shed that Jaggs would have 

 envied. 



An immense horseshoe of Richmond 

 roses was shipped the first of the week 

 by Frank Millang to a big store in 

 Kalamazoo, Mich. 



The next meeting of the Florists' 

 Club will take place Monday, March 12. 

 It is ladies' night and will include a 

 collation and musical entertainment. It 

 is orchid night and a feature will be 

 an illustrated lecture by Prof. Nash, of 

 Bronx park, and a competitive exhibition 

 by some of the best orchid growers of 

 the country. Ex-President Traendly will/ 

 be back from the meeting of the execu- 

 tive committee at Dayton, with news 

 of the S. A. F. convention. The ques- 

 tion box will be opened and the young 

 folks will have an opportunity for danc- 

 ing. Altogether this should be the big- 

 gest meeting the club has had. At 4 

 p. m. the outing committee will meet at 

 Fenrich 's new store, where Joe will keep 

 open house. 



A good many are talking Boston and 

 the Rose Society's convention. The at-, 

 tendance from New York will be larger 

 than at the carnation convention. Ar- 

 rangements are contemplated for a union 

 of all from this section and visitors from 

 the west to go via the Fall River line 

 the evening before. The fare is only 

 $2 from New York to Boston and the 

 steamers are palatial. The boat leaves 

 at 5 p. m., so that westerners can make 

 a note of this and arrange to arrive in 

 time. Those desiring to go in this way 



