APBIL 18. 1907. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



1693 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, April 17. — Cucumbers, 90c to 



),50 doz. ; leaf lettuce, 25c case; mush- 



i;oms, 40e to 55c lb. 



Cleveland, C, April 15.— Business is 



■ght but demand steady. Leaf lettuce, 



3e to 14c lb.; cucumbers, $1.50 doz.; 



., (dishes, 18c to 20c doz. bunches; spin- 



,li, 60c to 75c hamper; rhubarb, 65c to 



. "e doz, ; asparagus, 25c to 30c bunch. 



Boston, April 15. — Mushrooms, $1.75 

 in $2.50 per 4-lb. basket; beets, $2 to 

 .'2.50 doz. bunches; carrots, 25c to 50c 

 Idz. bunches; onions, $1.75 per basket; 

 I iicumbers, $3.50 to $8 box ; rhubarb, 6c 

 ♦(, 7c lb.; mint, $1.00 doz. bunches; let- 

 niee, 50c to $1 doz.; romaine, $1 to $1.25 

 (ioz. ; escarolle, $1 doz.; tomatoes, 40c 

 • |h. ; chicory, 75c to $1 doz.; parsley, 

 >i.-5 box; cress, 75c doz. 



Xeav York, April 15. — Mushrooms in 

 light receipt and firm. Cucumbers plenty 

 .ind weak. Lettuce selling well. Mint 

 scarce. Radishes weak. Ehubarb atoady. 

 Tomatoes dragging. Beet greens, 50c to 

 Toe bu.; cucumbers, 50c to $1 doz.; let- 

 'tuce, 60c to $1.25 doz.; mushrooms, 25c 

 to 65c lb.; mint, 50c to 75c doz. bunchps; 

 radishes, $2 to $3.50 per hundred 

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

 dred bunches; tomatoes, 10c to 20c lb. 



GREENFLY ON LETTUCE. 



Please name some good exterminator 

 of lice on lettuce. We have used tobacco 

 without success. C. G. C. 



I know of no safer means than tobacco 

 for the destruction of greenfly, which I 

 take to be what the correspondent means 

 V)y lice. I use the yellow powdered 

 article, specially prepared for smoMcg. 

 It is clean, easily used and eff ectivg .,iji 

 my experience. Our houses are twenty 

 feet wide and to every fifty feet of house 

 \ve use three pounds of tobacco dust. 

 To kindle it we simply lay on the floor 

 a handful of excelsior, spreading it out 

 so that the dust can be laid on top of it, 

 so as to allow the excelsior to project a 

 little all the way around. When a match 

 is applied to the excelsior in three or 

 four diflferent places, the tobacco is 

 ignited all around the edges of the pile 

 and burns slowly, keeping the house 

 lilled with smoke for the greater part of 

 The night. With this we have no trouble 

 keeping greenfly down, but we are very 

 ' areful to apply the smoke on the first 

 ;^igns of its presence in the house. If it 

 1^ allowed to run until the plants are 

 "adly infected, it is quite a hard matter 

 *o get the fly under control, but smoking 

 ■or three or four nights in succession 

 vill get rid of it, even if the house is 

 ■i''tty badly infested. W. S. Croydon. 



GARDENING IN ALABAMA. 



The shipment of vegetables from 

 !'< lints between Montgomery and Mobile 

 "» the Louisville & Xashville railroad 

 19S assumed large proportions this 

 ■spring and the industry, which is being 

 Jgstered directly by the Louisville & 

 Nashville, is many times more prosper- 

 '^"s this year than at anv time in the 

 i'istory of the road. 



The shipment of early vegetables and 

 '■erries from this section of Alabama be- 



ENGLISD Pot=GrowD GRAPE VINES 



Our stock is stronger and bandsomer than ever this year. We have a quantity of each 

 of the foUowiDg: kinds: Extra strong plants, $5.00 each; second .size. $2.50 each. Special 



prices on quantities: Black Alicante 



Gros Dora Black Hamburg: White Nice 



Bldwell'a Seedling; Muscat Hamburg; Muscat d'Alexandre 



Buckland Bw^eetwater Muscat Cannon Ball Gros Colmar 



Muscat BoTvood Golden Cliamplon Muscat Camlnada 



Trained FRUIT TREES 



ApDles, Pears, Peaches, Plums, Cherries, Nectarines, etc., for immediate delivery. Ask 

 for prices. 



Visitors Invited. Ask for CataIog;ue. 



BOBBINK & ATKINS, ^:r^zzz Rutherford, N. J. 



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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 oi. 



WILLIAM SIM, Cliftondale, Mass. 



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 . DANVUiLB, ILL. 



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gan as early as March 20 this year and 

 the business so far handled is un- 

 precedentedly large. Up to April 13 

 fifty-three ears of strawberries and 

 fifteen cars of radishes had been shipped 

 from the district, passing through Mont- 

 gomery, where they were re-iced en route 

 mostly to the cities of the middle west. 



According to an ofticial of the Louis- 

 ville & Nashville railroad, three years 

 {fgo the railroad put agents into this 

 field for the purpose of fostering the 

 growth of vegetables, berries and fruits. 

 The industries have been carefully nur- 

 tured, and during the first two years the 

 rasults were comparatively light, but 

 with this season the entire section has 

 taken on the air of unlimited prosperity. 

 The shipnieiit.s this season are several 

 times what they were last year at this 

 time. 



Some idea of the value of the indus- 

 tries can be gained from the fact that 

 people of this eeetion are now being paid 

 from $500 to $1,000 for a carload of 

 radishes, and $1,200 for a car of straw- 

 berries, this being the price paid for the 

 products on the track by commission 

 agents who are there ready to take the 

 goods. 



It is expected that during the season 

 at least 300 cars of perishable stuff will 

 have been shipped from the Mobile and 

 Montgomery division. Among the later 

 products will be tomatoes, canteloupes, 

 watermelons, beans and peaches. 



The zone of this activity extends from 

 Greenville south to Bay Minette, includ- 

 ing Boiling, Garland, Owassa, Evergreen, 

 Sparta, Marble, Castleberry, Brewton, 

 Canoe, Atmore and Kobertsdale, Sum- 

 merdale and Fooley on the Bay ^linetto 

 & Fort Morgan railroad. 



I LIKE the Keview^ best of all; it is 

 very interesting and instructive. — LuD- 

 wio ZiMMER, St. Louis, Mo. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



100 1000 

 LETTUCE. Grand Rapids, Big Boston, 



Boston Market, and Tennis Ball 20c $1.00 



PAR8LET, Moss Curled 25c 1.25 



BEKT8, Eclipse 25c 1.25 



CELEBT, White Plume, White solid 



and Celeriac, Giant Prague. . . .20c .25 



EGG PLANTS, N. Y. Improved, small 



for transplanting 25c 2.00 



PEPPEB, Bull Nose and Sweet 



Mountain 25c 2.00 



TOHATO, Earliana, Early Jewel, 



Lorillard and M ayflo wer 30c 2.00 



TOHATO, Stone, Perfection and other 



late kinds 20c 1.00 



CABBAGE, Ready May 10, standard 



sorts in any variety 1.00 



Cash with order. 



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



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Vegetable Growers Should 



Send 5 Dollars 



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

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

 to try for yourself the Wlttbold WaterlnK 

 System, or send for circular of testimonials. 



The Wlttbold Nozzle, for %-inch hose 11.00 



The Special Bose Nozsle 1.00 



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



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Sl^inoer'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. 



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NOTTINGHAM, N. H. 



L. E. Williams says this has been the 

 longest and coldest winter for years. 

 April 9 this region was covered by a 

 raging snow storm. He believes, from 

 present indications, that we shall have 

 a very late spring. It is hard, he con- 

 tinues, for our brethren farther south to 

 realize that up here there are two feet 

 of snow on the ground in the woods, and 

 that the ground is still frozen hard. 

 They should not be disappointed if their 

 orders from this section should be later 

 than usual in arriving. 



Battle Creek, Mich. — There was a 

 hard hail storm here March 20. C. ('. 

 Warburton is authority for the state- 

 ment that hail stones measuring five 

 inches in circumference were numerous, 

 and that his neighbors gatliered enough 

 of these to freeze a gallon of ice cream I 

 As there was no wind little glass was 

 broken. 



