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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 11, 1906. 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



New York, Oct. 10. — There again is 

 a market here for the products of the 

 near-Boston vegetable growers. Indoor 

 cucumbers are bringing 60 cents to $1 

 per dozen; head lettuce, $1 to $1.5D 

 per strap; mushrooms, 50 cents to $1 

 per pound. 



It is an ill wind that blows no one 

 good. The heavy storms in ' the south 

 are said to have largely reduced the* 

 crops of vegetables there and early, 

 crops of greenhouse stock may there- 

 fore be expected to realize better prices 

 than otherwise would be the case. 



BENCHES NOT ADVISABLE. 



•i I am building a greenhouse, 12x60, 

 with 3-foot walls, for lettuce and cu- 

 cumbers. I use Grand Rapids seed. Can 

 I do as well without benches for both, or 

 must I use benches? The climate here 

 is heavy in winter, with hardly any sun- 

 shine. I put in benches eight inches 

 from the glass. If thaj; is not right 

 please give full particulars. C. J. J. 



J; You are better without benches for 

 both the lettuce and cucumbers, but I 

 would advise you to raise the beds about 

 one foot above the floor level, leaving a 

 passageway in the middle of the house. 

 This passageway can be bordered with 

 boards to keep the beds in shape. A 

 12-inch board. along each side, fastened 

 to posts sufiSciently strong to keep it 

 where it belongs, is all that is needed. 

 Such a passageway not only makes it 

 easier to reach the bed when work is 

 being .done on it, but the bed being 

 taised above the ground level brings it 

 nftirer the light for such a crop as JiV- 

 tuce and insures against stagnation, as 

 the water can pass off much more freely. 

 Having a regular raised bench does not 

 make so much difference for the growing 

 of cucumbers, as these will do well either 

 way if properly handled, but for lettuce 

 the case is different, as it does far better 

 in a solid bed. W. S. Croydon. 



TELEGRAPH CUCUMBERS. 



I have some Telegraph cucumbers in 

 3-inch pots. "Will you be so kind as to 

 assist me in the culture of themf I 

 have an ideal house and would like some 

 hints on the amount of soil to use, and 

 as to pinching. A neighbor planted some 

 Telegraph cucumbers and they have 

 grown fully five feet high, with fruit 

 about four inches long, and they seem 

 to drop off, and after a while the plants 

 die. I notice that the plants split at the 



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trunk. I would like to know the cause 

 of it. Is it from too muen manure? 

 It seems to be a dry split. This neigh- 

 bor also had a house of melons which 

 were doing finely until he put on a top- 

 dressing of rose soil, and then the fruit 

 turned yellow and dropped off. Please 

 give the reason. H. L. A. 



The cause of stem-rot, which seems to 

 me to be the trouble with your neigh- 

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 around the necks of the plants. To 



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guard against this the plants should be 

 set on hills of a few shovelfuls of soil, 

 rounded well up so that the water will 

 pass off freely. A good, fibrous loam 

 without the addition of any sort of ma- 

 nure should be used for planting, but 

 after the plants attain size and the roots 

 begin to appear on the outside of the 

 soil a stronger soil can be used. This 

 soil should be placed around the outside 

 of the hills, but placed in such a way 

 that the plants will still be standing on 

 the highest point. On the first appear- 



