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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



■ Janlary 31, 1907. 



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V^etable Forciog. 



Please send the Review the names of 

 those in your vicinity who grow vege- 

 tables under glass. 



'^^The grower of cucumbers under glass 

 is sdways ready to try a few seeds of any 

 special strain. His purchase of the same 

 stock in quantity for tie following sea- 

 son naturally depends on the result. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Jan. 30. — Cucumbers, $1.50 

 to $1.75 doz. ; lettuce, 25c to 35c case; 

 mushrooms, 50c to 60c lb.; hothouse to- 

 matoes, 25c to 35c lb. ; radishes, 35c to 

 45c doz. bunches. 



Boston, Jan. 29. — Mushrooms, 50c to 

 75c lb.; rhubarb, 12%c to 15c lb.; pars- 

 ley, $1 to $1.25 box; tomatoes, 25c lb.; 

 cucumbers, $4 to $13.50 box; lettuce, 50c 

 to 75c doz.; romaine, 75c to $1 doz; 

 escarolle, 75c to $1 doz; radishes, $1.25 

 to $1.50 box. Trade is affected by the 

 severe weather and is only moderate. 



New York, Jan. 28. — Cucumbers of 

 fancy quality are still scarce and would 

 bring pretty good prices, but the market 

 IS dull for medium and ordinary quali- 

 ties. Lettuce also shows irregular qual- 

 ity; very fancy headed stock would ex- 

 ceed quotations. Mushrooms steady. 

 Other kinds quiet and unchanged. Cu- 

 cumbers, fancy, $1.25 to $1.75 doz.; No. 

 2, 75c to $1 doz.; lettuce, 25c to $1 doz.; 

 mushrooms, 25c to 75c lb; mint, 50c to 

 $1 doz. bunches; radishes, $3.50 to $4 

 per 100 bunches; parsley, 15c doz. 

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

 barb, 40c to 60c bunch. 



ENGLISH FORCING STRAINS. 



Watkins & Simpson, London, England, 

 write in part as follows under date of 

 January 12: 



"We are considerably interested in a 

 paragraph on page 433 of the issue of 

 the Review for December 27, where it is 

 said that there is a large trade to be 

 done in forcing strains of lettuce, etc., 

 by one who establishes a reputation for 

 first-class strains. "We may say that we 

 are having a crusade here in England to 

 try and induce the English people to take 

 up the Parisian methods of forcing vege- 

 tables. We noticed in an issue of a few 

 ■weeks ago that these forcing lettuces, 

 etc., were largely grown in the States, 

 and we intended to have written you, but 

 we have been so extremely busy, as usual 

 at this time of the year, that we have not 

 been able to. However, your little note 

 brings the matter in front of us again. 



"We may say we have some of the 

 finest strains for this class of work that 

 are to be obtained. The lettuces that we 

 offer are specially adapted for either 

 coldframe or greenhouse work, and the 

 Early Six Weeks cauliflower is the finest 

 cauliflower for forcing that we know of. 

 It may be had in any time of the year 

 six weeks after planting out. We think 

 we may say that we supply more forcing 

 frame cucumber seed than any other firm, 

 as we devote ourselves specially to a mar- 

 ket gardening trade, and seeds for market 

 gardeners must be exceedingly good. ' * 



TOMATOES, BEANS AND BEETS. 



I want to build a house 12x60 for 

 tomatoes. Would a wall four feet high 



CAILIFLOWERSEED 



Earliest Dwarf Erfurt 



The earliest and beet variety in existence 

 for either forcln? or open ground. We hold a 

 teBtea stock of exceptionally high germlnat- 

 Inir power. All we gnaraijtee to be 1906 crop. 

 $7.00 per pouud. Mailed free on receipt 

 of cash by International P. O. O. 



C. S. DANIELS A SON 



WYMONDHAM, NORFOLK. KNGLAND 



Mention The Reylew when you write. 

 FARQUHAR'S PERFECTION 



FORCING CUCUMBER 



A much Improved strain of White Spine, longr, 

 smooth, rich green, robust, 10 days earlier than 

 the old strains and more produAlve. Unequalled 

 under glass. Pkt.,26c; M oz., 36c; oz., tl; M lb., 

 13 lb. tlO. Write for complete catalogue. 



R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., BOSTON, MASS. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Walters' Improved 

 Telegraph Cucumber 



the finest flavor and most prolific grown; as sup- 

 piled to the largest English growers; disease un- 

 known; per oz., $4.00; price per lb. on application. 



A. A. Walters & Son, Bath, Kngland 



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be high enough for a bench, or will the 

 plants do better on a raised bed? Can 

 beans and beets be grown under glass? 

 C. J. J. 



In a house as narrow as twelve feet 

 a wall four feet high would not be high 

 enough for a raised bench, as it would 

 give your plants very little head-room. 

 The plants could, of course, be carried 

 over on a line with the roof a foot or 

 more away from the glass, but trained 

 that way only two rows could be accom- 

 modated, and your house would be pretty 

 well shaded by the foliage. A tomato 

 plant will fruit much better with the 

 roots confined, so that the solid or raised 

 bed is not the most suitable place for 

 them. 



I think your best plan would be to 

 grow them in boxes. Make these about 

 one foot wide and nine or ten inches 

 deep and any length you desire. They 

 could be made continuous for the whole 

 length of the house, or in lengths that 

 could be easily moved around. Set the 

 plants about fourteen inches apart in 

 the boxes. 



With a good light house four rows of 

 plants could be grown without the one 

 shading the other much if they were 

 trained to upright trellises. The height 

 of your plants would, of course, be regu- 

 lated by the height of your house and 

 they would have to be stopped before 

 they reached the glass. The two out- 

 side rows would not have as much head- 

 rodm as the two in the center of the 

 house; but if you have an east and west 

 house it may be best to stop them all 

 about an even height, so that the cen- 

 ter rows would not shade the back row. 

 If it is a north and south house it will 

 be all the better for your plants, as 

 then the light will strike on both sides 

 of the rows some part of the day and 

 give them all an equal chance. 



Beans, and I presume you mean string 

 beans, can be successfully |frown under 

 glass; but they require a minimum tem- 

 perature of 60 degrees. Probably this 

 is where you have failed. A raised 

 bench is best for their cultivation, one 



Vegetable Seeds 



Prices to BlArket Gardeners 



SPBCIAI. CUCUMBERS ^-Ib. lb. 



Landreth's extra early W. Spine. .40c ll.OQ 



Extra early Arlington W. Spine... 60c 1.26 



Landreth'B extraordinary W.SplnetiOc I.50 



Landreth's Long Green aherkln. .60c 1.60 



SPSCIAI.. LETTUCB 



Landreth's forcing:, heading: 66c 1.80 



May King, heading 70c 2.W) 



Virginia Solid Header fl.OO 2.60 



SPECIAL RADISHES 



Wonderful Halflong Red ,80c .80 



Landreth's White Box 26c .60 



Extra Early Scarlet Whlte-tlpped.20c .60 



Bloomsdale Spinach 20c .40 



Moss Curled Parsley 80c .40 



Landreth's Earliest Tomato.. 11.26 4.60 



Spark's Earllana Tontato 1.10 8.00 



Landreth's Red Rock Tomato I.IO 3.75 



Cash with order. Postage paid. 



Send for complete list. 



LANDRETH SEED CO., BRISTOL, PA. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



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Hothouse Specialties 



Our Mr. Rawson belog one of the 

 largest growers of Vegetables under 

 glass In this country, we have devel- 

 oped many special strains, including: 



Rawson's Hothouse Cucumber 



which we confidently believe superior to any 

 other on the market; 60c per oz.; 11.60 per U-lb.: 

 $6.00 per lb. 



RAWSON'S SCARLET CONICAL RADISH 



Best for forcing: many largest growers use It 

 exclusively. Brllliiuit scarlet, conical, short- 

 topped, remarkably uniform, tenoer, crisp: 90c 

 lb.; 101bB.,t8.0l; IbO lbs., (76.01'. 



These and many other specialties fully 

 described in our Market Gardener's List for 1907, 

 just issued. Sent free on request. 



W. W. RAWSON & CO., 5 Union St., Boston 



Mention Tlie Bevlew when yon writs. 



Comet Tomato 



Tbose who force tomatoes ihould rive 



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 



Dothlng to compare with it. Seed, $6.00 per os. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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that will accommodate about five inches 

 of soil. This should be of good quality 

 and fairly well enriched with well de- 

 composed manure. We have found the 

 Mohawk variety a suitable one to grow. 

 The most troublesome part of their cul- 

 tivation is the getting of the beans up. 

 They are apt to rot in the soil unless 

 this is only moderately moist at plant- 

 ing and water is withheld until they 

 show well above the soil. After they are 

 well up they need quite a little water, 

 but at no stage of their growth should 

 the soil be kept too wet. 



We plant the beans about three inches 

 apart in rows across the bench, the rows 

 being about twelve inches apart. After 

 the plants are about six inches high we 

 pull a little soil around them from either 

 side. This encourages them to make 

 roots around the neck of the stem, and, 

 as the soil is highest around the plants, 

 insures against their being too wet im- 

 mediately around the stems. Some sort 

 of support is necessary to keep the 

 plants erect and prevent the one row 

 from falling over on the other. For 

 this purpose there is nothing better than 

 light pieces of brush set along each side 

 of the row. Light brush will give no 

 shade and give all the support that is 

 needed. 



It is not good policy to grow beans 

 in the same house with tomatoes, as 

 here the white fly may prove trouble- 

 some. Grown apart from tomatoes they 



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