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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



December 6, 1906. 



We Are Always Out 



Looking for more business^ whether it is Red Pots, Flower 

 and Design Boxes, Wire Work, Palms and Ferns, 

 Florists' Supplies, Bulbs, 



The Bear Season. 



Ribbons, Practical Novelties, 

 Fertilizers and Insecticides. 

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 Bear it. 



SPECIALTIES. 



Safrano and Niphetos roses. These old 

 sorts still sell well. 



John McFarland has a fine house of 

 poinsettias for Christmas. He is also 

 producing some excellent lily of the 

 valley. 



The first real cold wave of the season 

 struck us during the night of December 

 J, the temperature at 10 p. m. being 32 

 degrees, at 7 o 'clock next morning nearly 

 zero, with a forty-knot breeze blowing. 

 Snow followed on December 3. 



W. N. Craig. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Dec. 5. — Cucumbers, $1 to 

 $1.50 doz. ; leaf lettuce, 40c to 50c case; 

 radishes, 25c to 35c dozen bunches. 



New York, Dee. 4, — The supplies of 

 southern vegetables are large and poor 

 stock is slow sale. Fancy greenhouse 

 vegetables go promptly. Cucumbers, 

 No. 1, $1 to $1.25 doz.; No. 2, $2 to $4 

 box; Boston lettuce, $1 to $1.50 per 

 strap; mushrooms, white, 60c to $1.25 

 lb.; brown, 50c to 60c lb.; radishes, 

 $1.50 to $2 per 100 bunches; tomatoes, 

 10c to 25c lb. 



Boston, Dec. 3. — Cucumbers, $1.50 to 

 $9 box; radishes, $1 to $1.50 box; let- 

 tuce, 25c to 50c box; mint, 50c doz.; 

 tomatoes, 25c lb.; mushrooms, 75c to 

 $1 lb. 



TOMATOES. 



Trainin£ and Pinching. 



It is generally conceded that the sin- 

 gle-stem system is the most practicable 

 for the commercial grower, the plants 

 being set from twelve to fourteen inches 

 apart, according to variety and width of 

 bench. One stake only is necessary for 

 each plant, but this should be a strong 

 one and should have the support of at 

 least one wire; if two, all the better. 

 Where one only is used it should be near 

 the top of the stakes to which these 

 Bhould be firmly attached. Another wire 

 about half way up the stakes will help 

 to stiffen and strengthen the whole 

 thing. 



The plants should be supported as 

 Boon as planted by being loosely tied to 

 the stakes. Loosely means that the 

 string is tied so as to allow for the 

 swelling of the stem; otherwise it will 

 become girdled as growth proceeds. To 

 make sure that the string will stay in 

 place it should be wrapped around the 

 stake first, then around the stake and 

 stem together and securely tied. Raffia 

 is the best and cheapest material to use. 

 As growth proceeds tying should be fre- 

 quently attended to, as the points will 



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draw over to the light and become bent 

 if tying is too long delayed. 



All the pinching that is necessary is 

 to keep all side growths taken out as 

 they appear, and after the plants have 

 reached the top of the stakes to pinch 

 out the points and stop their skyward 

 journey. We also find that quite fre- 

 quently growths appear on the ends or 

 the bunches of fruit, especially when the 

 plants are growing strong. As these are 

 a decided detriment to the development 

 of the fruit, they should be pinched out 

 as they appear. 



We sometimes have found it necessary 

 to cut away part of the leaves of some 

 varieties to admit the light and prevent 

 crowding, but as a rule varieties that 

 make such heavy foliage as to make this 

 necessary are not the most profitable 

 ones to grow. Though they are gener- 

 ally the producers of the heaviest fruit 

 they will not produce so much weight or 

 fruit per plant as some of the less ram- 

 pant growers. W. S. Croydon. 



CUCUMBEES. 



Pollination. 



The cucumber, like the other members 

 of the gourd family to which it belongs, 

 bears two kinds of blossoms on widely 

 separate parts of the plant. The stami- 



nate or non-fruit-bearing flower, is the 

 first to appear and is in general borne 

 near the base of the plant. The pistil- 

 late blossom with the embryo cucumber 

 at its base appears later and is borne 

 near the extremity of the newly form- 

 ing and rapidly growing shoots. Since 

 these flowers are normally produced in 

 this way, it is necessary that a transfer 

 of pollen be made from the staminate to 

 the pistillate flowers through the agency 

 of insects or by other artificial means, 

 says L. C. Corbett, in a recent buUetia 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Under greenhouse conditions and at 

 the time of year that the cucumber is- 

 forced it is necessary to provide for pol- 

 lination. In small establishments this 

 work can be done by hand. The stam- 

 inate blossoms are removed, the petals 

 turned back so as to allow the anthers 

 to project, and the pencil thus produced 

 is then thrust into the cup of the pistil- 

 late flower in such a way as to distribute 

 pollen upon the stigma of the pistillate 

 flower. In large establishments where 

 hand pollination is out of the question 

 a colony of honey bees frequently is 

 placed in each house to accomplish the 

 work. 



There is no getting along without the 

 Eeview. — J. J. Miller, Peoria, 111. 



