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Januaby 3, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



499 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Jan. 2. — Cucumbers, $1.50 to 

 $2 doz.; leaf lettuce, 35c to 40e case-; 

 spinach, 40c to 50e box. 



New York, Jan. 2. — Cucumbers in 

 light receipt and firm. Lettuce steady. 

 Kadishes of best grade in strong demand. 

 Parsley selling well. Tomatoea firm. 

 Mint scarce. Mushrooms in fair supply 

 •and finding good outlet. Cucumbers, 

 No. 1, $1.75 to $2.25 doz.; No. 2, $1 to' 

 $1.25 doz.; culls, $2 to $4 box; lettuce, 

 25c to 40e doz.; radishes, $2 to $3 per 

 100 bunches; spinach, 15c to 20c doz. 

 bunches; mint, 50c to $1 per doz. 

 bunches; tomatoes, 15c to 30c lb.; mush- 

 rooms, white, 30c to 75e lb.; brown, 25c 

 to 65e lb. 



Boston, Jan. 2. — The market is quiet. 

 Cucumbers, $4 to $15 box; parsley, $1.50 

 to $2 bushel; radishes, $1.75 box; mint, 

 75c doz. bunches; lettuce, 25e to 40c 

 doz.; romaine, 50c doz.; tomatoes, 30c to 

 35c lb. ; mushrooms, 35c to 75e lb. 



PACKING VEGETABLE PLANTS. 



I note several inquiries, with interest- 

 ing answers, and often note you speak of 

 stock as being well packed, » how neces- 

 sary it is that it be well packed, etc. As 

 many readers would undoubtedly order 

 more than they do were they sure of 

 receiving stock that had been well 

 packed to stand 100 to 1,000 miles of ex- 

 press travel, will you kindly state how 

 best to pack live plants, tomato, cabbage, 

 cauliflower, celery, strawberries, etc.? 



F. M. P. 



Packing is purely a matter of experi- 

 ence. I know of no school for packers. 

 I must say that in the great majority of 

 cases we receive plants of all kinds most 

 admirably packed at all seasons. The 

 larger the firm, the better they pack, be- 

 cause they have experienced men who are 

 constantly employed at the job. 



The season has much to do with the 

 question. If packed too tightly such 

 seedlings as tomato, cabbage, cauliflower, 

 celery, etc., would heat. I would say lor 

 these seedlings that they should be sort- 

 ed into lots of twenty-five in a parcel. 

 The roots should be about even and laid 

 on a piece of, paper large enough to go 

 twice around the bundle of plants and 

 projecting five or six inches beyond the 

 roots. If the shipment were destined to 

 go 1,000 miles you should scatter a little 

 damp sphagnum moss on the paper be- 

 fore you laid the plants on it ; then when 

 the paper is wrapped around the plants 

 the moss would be in touch with the 

 roots. Wrap the paper around the 

 plants and when once around fold in the 

 paper that projected beyond the roots 

 and you have a tight little parcel which 

 will not unfold in transit. 



In summer-time, or before danger of 

 frost, these bunches of twenty-five plants 

 can be stood upright in a shallow box 

 and on the top of the box a few slats 

 nailed. If the weather is cold the bun- 

 dles of plants can be laid flat in a box 

 in four or five layers and the cover nailed 

 down tight. Between each layer of bun- 

 dles you should have at least two layers 

 of newspapers or perhaps better still an 

 inch of excelsior, this to prevent heating. 



In the case of strawberries and toma- 

 toes, perhaps twelve pfants will be enough 



A BED or MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will bear loneer and yield better than from any other variety of 

 Spawn. ThlB Is proven by facts. Full particulars and information how to succeed in mushroom 

 raislusr free. We warrant you if using: our method of growing: mushrooms that all will go well. 



KNUD GUNDESTRUP & CO.. 427?'KX a^chi«oo 



VEGETABLE 

 PLANTS 



PARRAAF New Early and Succession 

 \//\UUrt\7l- ji 25 per 1000. 



I FTTI IPF Grand Rapids, Big Boston, Bos- 

 I.I.I li;\/L. ton Market and Tennis Ball, 



$1.00 per 1000. 

 PARSLEY Moss Curled, $1.25 per 1000. 



R. Vincent, Jr. & Son, white Marsh, Md. 



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Comet Tomato 



Tbose who force tomatoea should give 

 "Oomet" a trial. This variety has been the talk 

 of gardeners around Boston the past season. 

 Those who have seen it growing declare there's 

 nothing to compare with it. Seed, $6.00 per os. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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Vegetable Growers should 



Send 5 DollarS| 



for a swivel wheel and 20 ^^-inch nozzles. It will 

 fit a run of 100 feet of pipe and give you a chance 

 to try for yourself, the Wlttbold watering 

 Bystoin, or send for circulars of testimonials. 



Louis Wittbold, 1 708 N. Halsted St., Chicago 



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in each bunch. In the closed box always 

 have the box firmly filled, with no 

 chance for the bundle of plants to shift, 

 for when the box is closed on all sides 

 expressmen cannot be expected to know 

 on which side the box should lie. We 

 have received 2,000 or more small lettuce 

 plants with not a plant dead or bruised 

 after a journey of 500 miles. "Then again 

 we have received a few hundred pansies 

 which were so mixed up with the soil 

 that we had to run the whole mass 

 through a coarse sieve to separate the 

 plants from th6 soil. W. S. 



FARTHEST NORTH. 



The firm of Ashworth & Holmes has 

 established the Saskatoon Nurseries, at 

 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, said 

 to be th^ farthert north of any green- 

 house plant in Canada. The nurseries 

 will be under the management of Ar- 

 thur Marriott, who for the last' two years 

 hag made a distinct success of growing 

 early vegetables, flowers, etc., under the 

 limited glass at his disposal. There will 

 be 10,000 square feet of glass in the 

 Saskatoon Nurseries to start with and 

 in addition to this there will be put 

 down forty acres in nursery trees, includ- 

 ing maple, poplar, birch and all kinds 

 suitable for this country. The new con- 

 cern expects to be able to supply Sas- 

 katoon at least with early cucumbers, 

 tomatoes, celery, lettuce and other vege- 

 tables, as well as all lines of cut flowers, 

 pot plants and bedding flowers. 



Excavation has been made for the hot- 

 beds and the manager's house is well 

 under way. The glass-covered portion, 

 will be walled in with concrete walls five 

 feet high, four feet of which will be 

 below the ground level. The iron-frame 

 roofing has been ordered and shipped 



Lambert's Pare Cnltore 

 Mushroom Spavrn 



Produced by new grafting 

 process from selected and 

 prolific specimens, thor- 

 oughly acclimatized. 

 Has never failed to run 

 Sold by Leading Seedsmen. 

 Practical instructions on 

 "Mnshroom Culture" 

 mailed free on application. 

 American Spawn Co. 

 St. Paul, Blinn. 

 Mention The Review when yon write. 



PURE CULTURE 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



. Per 10 bricks. $1.60. Per 25 bricks. $3.60. 

 Per 60 bricks, $6.50. Per 100 bricks, $12.00. 



Fresh Tobacco Stems, in bales of 300 lbs., $1.50. 



W. C. BECKBRT, Allegrheny, Pa. 



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MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Originators of improved varieties of culti- 

 vated mushrooms. "Tissue Culture Pure Spawn" 

 of 7 varieties now ready. Oet our booklet. It's 



Pnr« Culture Spawn CSo. 

 609 W. Fourth St. CINCIimATI. O. 



Chicago Branch, 604 LaSalle Ave. 

 Mention The Beview when y<m write. 



Skinner's Irrigation. 



For greenhouses, gardens and lawns. 

 Latest improved gasoline pumping out- 

 fits at low price. Estimates tarnished 

 on request. Address, 



C. We SKINNER, Troy, O. 



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from the King Construction Co. and aJso 

 the Kroesehell boiler, from Chicago. The 

 boiler is capable of supplying heat for 

 10,000 feet of 4-inch pipe. 



The ' promoters of the concern are con- 

 fident that a big field awaits an industry 

 of this kind and nothing will be left 

 undone to develop business. The man- 

 ager's house will adjoin the glass houses 

 at the north and a doorway will allow 

 passage from one to the other without 

 going outside. 



Greenwich, Conn. — Hitchings & Co. 

 are building a fine range of fruit houses 

 at Conyers Manor, where Henry Wild, 

 late of Brookline, Mass., is superinten- 

 dent. An immense amount of planting 

 had been recently done on this fine es- 

 tate. 



Fairhaven, Mass. — Peter Murray did 

 a big Christmas trade in pot plants. He 

 had a grand let of Lorraine begonias. 

 His Winsor carnation proved extremely 

 popular with the pubKc. Orders continue 

 to come in almost daily for this fine 

 new carnation. 



Brockton, Mass. — W. W. Hathaway, 

 the well-known Main street florist, had 

 the best Christmas trade on record. Poin- 

 settias, azaleas, Lorraine begonias and 

 other well-flowered plants met with a fine 

 sale. Roses, carnations, valley, violets, 

 poinsettias and other seasonable flowers 

 all sold well, while the demand for holly 

 and other greenery was better than ever. 



