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The Weekly Florists' Review* 





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May 30, 1907,. 



Riliabig SOW NOW Seeds 



OBCONICA PRIMROSES 



My New Hybridized Strain, as: 

 Carmine, Fink, Purple, Violet, Pure 



"White, each color separate. 

 Fringed Hybrids, in splendid mixture. 

 Compacta, a real Qne potter. 

 Triamph, new, of very high comm. value. 

 . Bach of the above : Per tr. pkt., 50c ; 6 tr. pkts.. 



$2.50; the 8 above varieties together, $3 25. 

 Baby Primrose, tr.pkt.,25c; Ctr. pkts., $1.25. 

 Battercnp Primrose, tr. pkt., 25c; 6 tr. 



pkts., $1.25. 

 Carnations, Hardy Garden, tioest, oz., $2.50; 



tr. pkt., 35c. 

 Cowslips, new upright hybrids, oz., $2.50; 



tr. pkt., 35c. 



Pinks, new early- flowered Dwarf Hardy 



Garden, of greatest merit for early spring 



use, tr. pkt., 50c; 6 tr. pkts.. $2 ."iO. 



Also ask for my Wholesale Catalot?ue, which 



guides' you throvigh Reliable Flower Seeds. 



0. Y. ZAN6EN, Seedsman, Hoboken, N. J. 



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SAGO PALM STEMS 



(CYCAS REVOLtTTA) 



. True Lone-Leaved Variety 



Splendid, shapely stems, ranging in weight to 

 suit the mofct particular buyer. We offer aB fol- 

 lows: 6 lbs. at I2c per lb; 10 lbs. at 10c per lb.; 26 

 lbs. at 8c per lb.; 100 lbs. at 7)^c per lb.; 300 Ibe 

 (case) at 7c per lb. 



JOHNSON SllU uOi) philadklphia 



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Importers and Krowers of high grade 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, ETC. 



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Telephone 4286 Gramercy. 



Gladiolos Bolbs 



Our bulbs are not better than 

 the best, but better than the rest. 

 TRY THBM. 



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^ SYIiVAVIA, OHIO. 



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H. E. FISKE SEED CO. 



Faneuil Hall Square, Boston 



New Crop Seeds now ready 



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Dahlias 



Named Tarieties. 

 Send for list. 



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Vegetable Forciflg. 



Thk Avhite fly that is surh a trouble- 

 some post in some tomato houses, has its 

 counterpart in Florida, where a species 

 nameci Aleyrodcs citri affects oranges, 

 lemons and citrons. To combat this pest 

 experiments are now being made in tlu' 

 use of a fungus, Asehersonia aleyrodes, 

 wliich iy ])arasitic on the white fly. 



VEGETABLE MAHKETS. 



Chicago, May 29. — Cucumbers, 40c to 

 75c doz. ; leaf lettuce, 30c to 32^^»c case; 

 mushrooms, 45e lb. 



Nkw Youk, May 27. — Mushrooms in 

 light supply and firm, with some fancy 

 exceeding outside quotations. Cucumbers 

 steady. Other hothouse stock about out 

 of the market. Cucumbers, 40c to 8.5c 

 doz. ; lettuce, 50c to 75c doz. ; musii- 

 rooms, 25c to 75c lb. 



Boston, May 27. — Weather continues 

 very cold, Avith frosty nights. All hot- 

 house stock continues in good demand. 

 (Jucumbers, .$2 to $4.50 box; lettuce, 50c 

 to .$1.25 doz.; radishes, $1.50 box; par- 

 sley, $2 box; mushrooms, $2 to $3 per 

 4-lb. basket; tomatoes, 20c lb.; romaine, 

 $1 doz.; escarolle, 75c to $1 doz.; beets, 

 $1.50 doz. bunches. 



PINCHING CUCUMBER PLANTS. 



In the growing of cucumbers under 

 glass we wish to know about pruning the 

 plants. Do you remove any of the side 

 shoots as they appear on the main vine, 

 or do you train them up and let them all 

 bear fruit? If two or three little fruits 

 appear in one place, that is, at the base 

 of a leaf, should one be left and the 

 balance be removed, or should all be 

 left? On some nights when it seems too 

 warm to fire, if the temperature fall to 

 50 or 55 degrees, what will be the effect 

 on the crop or the plants? W. 



Pruning is an unknown term in the 

 handling of cucumber plants. We use 

 the term pinching, which nieans that the 

 shoots are stopped at a soft, tender stage, 

 when the operation can be done by the 

 finger and thumb, without the aid of a 

 knife. It would only be a waste of 

 energy to allow the growth to run so as 

 to need the assistance of a knife. The 

 side shoots should in no case be removed, 

 since it is on them that you must depend 

 for your crop, as fruit seldom appears on 

 the main or leading shoots. The idea 

 in pinching is simply to keep the plants 

 in shape and where they belong, so that 

 they won't run into and through one 

 another, which would leave the foliage so 

 thick and so exclude light and air as to 

 hinder the development of the flowers 

 and fruit. The main or leading shoots 

 should be trained upright to the wires 

 and the side shoots trained crosswise, the 

 latter being stopped by pinching out the 

 points so that they will nearly meet but 

 not overreach the shoots on the plants on 

 either side. With the growth properly 

 controlled by pinching, the plants should 

 be vigorous enough to support all the 

 fruit that will set and the pinching off 

 of any of the fruit will be unnecessary. 



A temperature of 50 or even 55 de- 

 grees is too low for cucumbers. For all 

 the little extra trouble or expense at- 

 tached to it, it will be far better to keep 

 up a little heat on cool nights. The cool 



temperature would not injure the plants 

 so much, as they would recover from the 

 check, but would be almost sure to result 

 in the <lropping of the fruit, e^ecially 

 any fruit in the smaller stages or devel- 

 opment, which after such a check would 

 turn yellow and drop off in the course 

 of a few days. W. S. Croydon. 



TRUCKING ON LONG ISLAND. 



The productive market gardens of the 

 towns of Newtown, Jamaica, Hempstead, 

 North Hempstead and Oyster Bay, Long 

 Island, have for years played an impor- 

 tant part in supplying the Manhattan 

 and Brooklyn markets with early pota- 

 toes, cabbage, peas, beans, sweet corn, 

 tomatoes, celery, lettuce, asparagus, 

 onions, rhubarb, radishes, beets, i)ickles. 

 A daily average of from 300 to 500 

 market wagons wend their way to Wal- 

 labout, Washington or Fulton markets, 

 or other smaller markets of down-town 

 Manhattan or to the uptown Harlem 

 markets. Today the market garden zone 

 is being pushed farther to the eastward. 

 The truck growers of Flatbush, .Tamaica 

 and Newtown have sold their truck 

 farms to the big development syndicates 

 at prices that are prohibitive as to farm- 

 ing purposes, and the owners have, in 

 many instances, moved into eastern 

 Nassau or to the towns of western Suf- 

 folk, from which sections the fine im- 

 proved roads enable them to get their 

 products to market with greater facility 

 than was possible from points fifteen 

 miles away from market twenty years 

 ago. 



The fertile towns of Southold, River- 

 head and the Hamptons still hold their 

 pre-eminence as the finest market gar- 

 den areas of the United States, and an 

 average per year of not less than 2,500,- 

 000 bushels of potatoes and 200,000 bar- 

 rels of cauliflower, 40,000 bushels of lima 

 beans, tens of thousands bunches of as- 

 paragus, large quantities of onions, tur- 

 nips and other vegetables; 200 or 300 

 tons of seeds, such as cabbage, cauli- 

 flower, tomato and other varieties are 

 shipped to the New York city and New 

 England markets. 



VEGETABLE PUNTS 



100 1000 

 LETTVCK PLANTS, ready now. Grand 



Rapids, Big Boston, Boston Market, 



and Tennis Ball 20c $1.00 



PABRLET, MosiOarled 26c 1.25 



BBIT8, Eclipse 26c 1.26 



CKLEBT, White Plume, White solid 



andOeleriac, Giant Prague 20c 1.25 



EGG PLANTS, N. Y. Improved, small 



for transplantinR 25c 2.00 



EGG PLANTS, from 2-in . pots $2.00 



PEPPEB, Bull Nose and Sweet 



Moantain 25c 2.00 



TOMATO, Earllana, Early Jewel, 



Lorillard and Mayflower 30c 2.00 



TOMATO, Stone, Perfection and other 



late kinds 20c 1.00 



CABBAGE, Ready May 10, standard 



sorts in any variety 1.00 



Gash with order. 



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Skiooer'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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