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APBIL 11, 1907. 



The Weekly Florists' Review* 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



St. John, Mich. — J. W. Irving has 

 bought five acres of land for market 

 gardening and will at once put up a 

 greenhouse. 



Aurora, III. — W. B. Davis & Co. are 

 preparing fifteen acres of land adjoin- 

 ing their greenhouses for growing out- 

 door crops in the summer. 



Bluffton, Ind. — Spring trade is be- 

 ginning in nice shape. Myers & Co. have 

 over 100,000 cabbage plants on the place. 

 They expect to grow between 250,000 

 and 300,000 of all kinds of vegetable 

 plants. These plants are wholesaled to 

 local grocers and retailed at the green- 

 houses, showing what a business in this 

 line of stock can be worked up by grow- 

 ing first-class stock. 



VEGETABLE MAHKETS. 



Chicago, April 10. — Cucumbers, 75c 

 to 90c doz.j leaf lettuce, 25c case. 



Boston, April 8. — Beets, $1 to $1.50 

 doz. bunches; carrots, 25c to 75c doz. 

 bunches; radishes, $2 to $2.50 box; let- 

 tuce, 50c to $1 doz.; mint, 75c doz. 

 bunches ; tomatoes, 40c to 50c lb. ; mush- 

 rooms, $1.50 to $2.50 per 4-lb. basket; 

 romaine, $1 to $1.25 doz.; escaroUe, 75c 

 to $1 doz.; rhubarb, 6c to 7c lb.; cu- 

 cumbers, $3.50 to $8 box. 



New York, April 8. — Mushrooms in 

 light receipt and firm. Cucumbers 

 steady. Lettuce firm. Mint scarce. 

 Radishes and rhubarb selling well when 

 showing attractive quality. Tomatoes 

 quiet and easy. Beet greens, 75c to 

 $1.25 bu. ; cucumbers, 50c to $1.25 doz. ; 

 lettuce, 60c to $1.25 doz.; mushrooms, 

 20c to 65c lb.; mint, 60c to 75c doz. 

 bunches; radishes, $3 to $5 per hundred 

 bunches; rhubarb, $3 to $7 per hun- 

 dred bunches; tomatoes, 15c to 25c lb. 



IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SEEDS. 



In a recent talk on vegetables, before 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 John W. Duncan said: "It would be 

 impracticable for me, at this time, to say 

 which are the best varieties of vege- 

 tables, but I wish to pass a few remarks 

 on some varieties of the more common 

 kinds of vegetables which possess par- 

 ticular merit and which may be helpful 

 at this season in the selection of seeds 

 from the alluring catalogues of the many 

 reliable seed houses — and, by the way, 

 the procuring of high-grade seeds is one 

 of the most important steps towards 

 having good vegetables. By high-grade 

 seeds I mean seeds that are of the finest 

 selection of the variety or species they 

 represent.. I have yet failed to find the 

 seed store that could supply the highest 

 grades of all kinds of vegetables that 

 a gardener may wish to grow, and the 

 gardener will invariably find that he 

 may get an excellent selection or strain 

 of one kind of seed from one particular 

 seed store and another from some other. 

 This is true of fine strains of flower 

 seeds, and it is equally or more so of 

 vc;rotable sep<ls. " 



TOMATOES. 



Those who grow vegetable plants for 

 spring sales, as well as all others han- 

 dling tomatoes, will be interested in the 



EN6USH Pot%own GRAPE VINES 



Our stock is strongrer and handsomer than ever this year. We bave a quantity of each 



of the followiDg: kinds: Extra strooR plants, $5.00 eacb; second size, S2.50 each. Special 



prices on quantities: Blaol( Alicante 



Groa Dore Black Etemburg: White Nice 



Bldwell'a Seedllns Muscat Hamburg: Muscat d'Alexandre 



Buokland Bw^eetwater Muscat Cannon Ball Gros Colmar 



Muscat Bowood Golden Champion Muscat Camlnada 



Trained FRUIT TREES 



Apples, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Otaerries, Nectarines, etc., for immediate delivery. Ask 

 for prices. 



Visitors Invited. Ask for Catalogue. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS, 



Nurserymen 

 and Florists 



: Rutherford, N. J. 



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We recommend for forcing : 



Gundestnip's Cauliflower New Snowball 



better than Dry Weather for forcing, ijer oz., 12.00. 

 Lettuce Grand Rapids, per oz., 10c; M-lh., 26c. 

 Improved Arlington White Spine Cncnm> 

 ber, per oz , lOe; H-lb., 26c. Uandestrnp'a 

 Karly Scarlet Turnip, white tip for forc- 

 ing:, M-lh., 2Uc; 1-lb., 76c. Celerlac, Gunde- 

 •trup^s Oval King, 1-oz., 26c; M-lb., 60c. 



OUNDBSTRUP'S SEED STORE 

 4878 Milwaukee Ave. CHICAGO 



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Comet Tomato 



Those who force tomatoes should give 

 "Comet" 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 oz. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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100.000 Tomato Plants 



Beauty. Stone, IXL, Crimson Cushion, 



Great Baltimore, 

 25c per lOO; $1.26 per 1000; $9.00 per 10,000. 



B. E. WADSWORTH 



Box 224 . DANVILLK, ILL. 



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following descriptions of varieties, with 

 hints as to their special uses, taken from 

 a bulletin of the Maryland Experiment 

 Station, where a scientific study of the 

 tomato has been made: 



The Greater Baltimore is a handsome 

 fruit of the same general type and color 

 as the Stone, the so-called "red" or 

 canning tomato. This seems to be a 

 valuable addition to the list of varieties. 



The Stone is too well known to need 

 a description here. 



Chalk's Early Jewel is a good variety 

 for market or home use. It is fairly 

 early and will yield larger crops and 

 over a longer period than will Sparks ' 

 Earliana. 



Livingston's Globe is a fine, meaty to- 

 mato. It is globe shaped and on this 

 account is considered desirable for slic- 

 ing for the table. 



Salzer's Bountiful is a new and pro- 

 lific variety, but is poor in color, being 

 a yellowish red. 



Success is the same general type as 

 Stone, Paragon, etc. 



Truckers' Favorite is a purple tomato 

 suitable for market, although usually a 

 little more irregular in shape than the 

 Beauty. 



Matchless is an old standard variety 

 suitable for market or canning purposes. 



The Five Million Dollar is of the 

 same type as the Stone and has given 

 heavy yields in the two years just past. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



100 1000 



$1.00 

 1.25 

 1.26 



.25 



2.00 



2.00 



2.00 



1.00 



1.00 



LETTUCE, Grand Rapids, Big Boston, 



Boston Market, and Tennis Ball 20c 



PABSLET, Moss Curled 25c 



BEKTK, Eclipse 25c 



CELEBT, White Plume, White solid 



and Celerlac, Giant Prague. . . 20c 



EGG PLANTS, N. Y. Improved, small 



for transplanting 25c 



PBPPEB, Bull Nose and Sweet 



Mountain 25c 



TOMATO, Earliana, Early Jewel, 



Lorillaid and Mayflower 30c 



TOMATO, Stone, Perfection and other 



late kinds 20c 



CABBAGE, Ready May 10, standard 



sorts in any variety 



Cash with order. 



R. VINCENT Jr. & SON, White Marsh, Md. 



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Vegetable Growers Should 



Send 5 Dollars 



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

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

 to try for yourself the Wlttbold Waterlns 

 System, or send for circular of testimonials. 



The Wittbold Nozzle, for ?^-inch hose $1.00 



The Special Bose Nozzle 1.00 



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



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Skinner's Irrigation. 



For greenhoases, gardens and lawns. 

 Latest improved gasoline pampin^ out- 

 fits at low price. Estimates furnished 

 on request. Address, 



Cr W. SKINNER, Troy, O. 



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Sparks' Earliana is one of the earli- 

 est of the smooth, regular tomatoes, but 

 it needs rich soil and close planting in 

 order to get large crops for market or 

 home use. 



Wood's Improved Ponderosa is much 

 like the old Ponderosa with large fruit. 



Livingston's Beauty is the old stand- 

 ard purple variety and is an excellent 

 market sort where this color is in de- 

 mand. 



The Acme is similar to Beauty, but is 

 earlier and not quite so large. 



Burpee's Earliest Pink is similar to 

 Acme or Beauty in color, biit is very 

 early. It is too rough for a good mar- 

 ket sort. 



All our replies have mentioned the 

 Review. — Goshen Floral Co., Goshen, 

 Ind. 



Have dropped all others in preference 

 to the Review. — Isaac Husbands, Belle- 

 vue, 0. 



