JANUABV 10. 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



569 



Comet Tomato 



Tbose who foi;ce tomatoes should give 

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

 nf eardeners around Boston the past season. 

 Those who have seen It growing declare there's 

 nothing to compare with It. Seed, $5.00 per o>. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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The rows should be, at least, three feet 

 apart, but, of course, your walks would 

 count' for space. If your benches are 

 three and one-half feet wide they will 

 Hccommodate two rows nicely, the plants 

 being set near the edges of your bench. 

 Hut if only two feet wide, only one row 

 ( ould be given justice. 



It is not so much the amount of root 

 space required, as cucumbers grow in a 

 comparatively small amount of soil, con- 

 sidering the size of the plants, as it is 

 the air space and amount of light that 

 tne plants require. The height the plants 

 may be allowed to attain will depend on 

 the headroom available, but, allowing 

 them a height of five feet, it will be 

 seen that one row would shade the other, 

 unless sufficient space were allowed. 



The date of planting will depend on 

 your command of heat and the amount 

 of coal you calculate to burn. In winter, 

 the higher price of the product may be 

 counted on to pay for the extra expense 

 and trouble, when as the season ad- 

 vances and the weather becomes warm, 

 less expense and less trouble being re- 

 quired to produce the crop, the price 

 naturally falls. So, as far as the paying 

 end of it goes, it does not make much 

 difference at which season you grow the 

 crop. 



For a beginner, however, the best 

 time to plant would be after the middle 

 of February, as they are easier handled 

 (luring the warmer spring months than 

 through the dull weather in winter. It 

 takes four to five weeks, to have the 

 plants large enough for setting out, from 

 the time the seeds are planted. 



A cucumber plant will produce from 

 two to three dozen cucumbers, according 

 to the care given and success of the crop. 



The rotation of crops you suggest 

 should work out all right. If good plants 

 of lettuce are set out, after the chrys- 



A BED or MUSHROOMS 



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VEGETABLE 

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 .$1.25 per 1000. 



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 PARSLEY Moss Curled, $1.25 per 1000. 



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



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Vegetable Growers^ should 



Send 5 Dollars 



for a swivel wheel and 20 >iiinch nozzles. It will 

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

 to try for yourself, the Wlttbold Waterlnc 

 System, or send for circulars of testimonials. 



Louis Wittbold, 1708 N. Halsted St., Chicago 



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anthemums are over, they ought to be 

 cleared out in about ten weeks, which 

 would give you nice time for a spring 

 crop of cucumbers. W. S. Croydon. 



A MICHIGAN LETTUCE FACTORY. 



There was a time when vegetable grow- 

 ers thought any old-fashioned house was 

 good enough for lettuce, but in these 

 modern days it has been found that let- 

 tuce is deserving of as good a house as 

 any other crop. One of the up-to-date 

 establishments with which the state of 

 Michigan is dotted is that of Chamber- 

 lain & Bunker, at Fremont. They have 

 in the last two or three years erected a 

 large establishment, partly devoted to 

 carnations and spring bedding plants, 

 but principally devoted to the forcing of 

 lettuce, radishes, cucumbers, parsley and 

 tomatoes. They put their lettuce up in 

 fifteen-pound baskets and find a wide 



Lambert's Pore Cnltiire 

 Mushroom Spavin 



Produced by new grraftlng 

 process from selecteo and 

 prolific specimens, thor- 

 oughly acclimatized. 

 Has never failed to ran 

 Sold by Leading Seedsmen. 

 Practical instructions on 



"Muahroom Culture" 

 mailed free on application. 



American Spawn Co. 

 St. Paul, Minn. 



Wittbold's Watering System at Chamberlain & Bunker's, Fremont, Mich. 



PURE CULTURE 



MUSHROOM SPAWN 



Per 10 bricks. $1.50. Per 25 bricks, $3.60. 

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



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

 W. C. BECKERT, Allegheny, Pa. 



Skinner's Irrigation. 



For greenhouses, gardens and lawns. 

 Latest improved gasoline pumping out- 

 fits at low price. Estimates furnished 

 on request. Address, 



C, W, SKINNER, Troy, O. 



market for it among the retail grocers. 



Their houses are wide, long, high, light 

 and airy. They would do for American 

 Beauties as well as for lettuce. One of 

 these houses is shown in the accompany- 

 ing illustration. Of course, the lettuce 

 being on the ground level instead of on 

 raised benches adds something to the ap- 

 pearance of the height in the house. But 

 Chamberlain & Bunker say that they find 

 the larger body of air confined in these 

 high houses aids materially in maintain- 

 ing an even temperature. A sudden 

 change does not penetrate to the plants 

 so quickly as it does in small houses. 

 Once the house is raised to the proper 

 temperature it is carried there with little 

 expense of attention or fuel. 



Chamberlain & Bunker were among the 

 first growers to make a test of mechan- 

 ical watering and the picture shows the 

 Wittbold sprinkling apparatus in opera- 

 tion along one side of this house. It is 

 difficult to get a photograph which shows 

 the sprinklers working, for the spray is 

 so misty that the camera fails to catch 

 it and it appears only as a fog on the 

 negative. In this case, however, the light 

 was .just right to show the waterfall. 

 Chamberlain & Bunker have equipped 

 their entire establishment with this me- 

 chanical sprinkler. They say they are 

 more than pleased with it and like it bet- 

 ter the more they use it. ' ' It does the 

 work in every way far more satisfactor- 

 ily than we aared hope when we first put 

 it' in. " 



The Rural New Yorker recently con- 

 tained a two-column writeup of mechan- 

 ical watering in which its many advan- 

 tages were pointed out, and the state- 

 ment was made that its adoption by the 

 vegetable growers is becoming general 

 and that mechanical watering promises 

 to revolutionize the trucking industry in 

 the south. Indeed, A. H. Ahten, a well- 

 known New Orleans grower, says it 

 saves him $3 or $4 a day in cost of labor, 

 besides doing the work better than by the 

 old-fashioned means. 



