June 13, 1007. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



31 



Vegetable Forcing. 



The shortage of tomato plants is this 

 year the greatest ever known and ex- 

 tends to every section of the country. 



The U, S. Department of Agriculture, 

 in one of its recent bulletins, says "the 

 only satisfactory basis on which to sell 

 any vegetable crop is that of weight." 



The sale of vegetable plants has 

 been greater than ever this year. Prac- 

 tically every florist who handles any 

 kind of spring plants can do well with 

 vegetable plants in season. 



EvEEY florist producing stock for a 

 local trade should plan to have part of a 

 bench of lettuce for next winter; it pays, 

 and it brings many people to you who do 

 not buy flowers frequently. 



B. E. Wadsworth, Danville, 111., re- 

 ports that while he was advertising to- 

 mato plants on this page of the Eeview 

 he sold "over 700,000 plants, mostly to 

 canning factories in the west, one buyer 

 placing a single order for 125,000. ' ' 



The Maryland Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, at College Park, has is- 

 sued a bulletin which will be of interest 

 to every trucker or grower of vegetables 

 under glass who sends for it. The title 

 is ' ' Marketing Fruit and Truck Crops. ' ' 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, June 12. — Cucumbers, 25c to 

 90c doz.; leaf lettuce, 40e to 45e case. 



New York, June 10. — Cucumbers 

 plenty, and meeting with a fair outlet at 

 former prices, except a few fancy marks,, 

 which command a premium. Mushrooms 

 selling slowly, unless fancy, when prices 

 are occasionally exceeded. Tomatoes 

 dull. Cucumbers, 40c to 65c doz. ; mush- 

 rooms, 10c to 50c lb.; tomatoes, 15c to 

 20c lb. 



Boston, June 10. — Owing to cool 

 weather, all hothouse vegetables con- 

 tinue to sell well. Beets, $1 to $1.50 

 doz. bunches; carrots, 75c to $1 doz. 

 bunches; cucumbers, $2 to $3.50 box; 

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

 doz.; romaine, $1 doz.; chicory, $1 doz.; 

 tomatoes, 25c to 3oc lb.; parsley, $2.50 

 box. 



WHITE FLY ON VEGETABLES. 



The white fly is now an established 

 pest in almost every greenhouse used 

 for growing tomatoes, cucumbers, mel- 

 ons and other broad-leaved plants requir- 

 ing warm temperatures. It is also pres- 

 ent in many cooler houses devoted to 

 vegetable crops, such as radishes, lettuce 

 and cauliflower, but increases at a com- 

 paratively slow rate and does little harm. 

 It is occasionally abundant outside dur- 

 ing summer in the vicinity of propa- 

 gating houses and other greenhouse es- 

 tablishments, being chiefly found on sal- 

 vias, petunias, geraniums and other 

 broad or soft leaved plants, and has 

 even been noticed in quantity on straw- 

 berry foliage. It does little harm out- 

 side, and is not likely to increase to any 

 great extent, as it is apparently unable 

 to survive our winters without glass pro- 

 tection and artificial warmth. It is a 

 particularly formidable nuisance to the 

 tomato forcer, and must be diligently 

 controlled if profitable yields are ex- 

 pected. While very resistant to ordi- 



A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Raised from my Spawn, will bear longer and yield better than from any other variety of 

 Spawn. This Is provea by facts. Full particulars and Information how to succeed In mushroom 

 raislngr free. Wu warrant you if using our method of vrowlnr mushrooms that all will go well. 



KNUD GUNDESTRUP 



Muahroom 

 Specialist, 



4273 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 



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nary insecticides, it, fortunately for the 

 grower, readily yields to hydrocyanic 

 acid gas. Multitudes of trials have es- 

 tablished, says Dr. F. W. Van Fleet, 

 in the Rural New-Yorker, that in ordi- 

 pary greenhouses the most practical dose 

 is two and one-half ounces ninety-eight 

 per cent potash cyanide for each 1,000 

 cubic feet of air space, to be decomposed 

 in a mixture of three ounces each com- 

 mercial sulphuric acid and water. 



Directions have repeatedly been given 

 in these columns, but it may be well to 

 repeat that the cyanide should be 

 weighed out in parcels of two and one- 

 half ounces, and each lot securely 

 wrapped in paper. The acid should pre- 

 viously be poured in the needed quan- 

 tity of water, making the dilution in 

 an earthen vessel, and distributed in a 

 suflScient number of jars, not over fifty 

 feet apart, properly to distribute the 

 gas. At night, when the plants and air 

 are reasonably dry and the temperature 

 not over 60 degrees, the packages of 

 cyanide are rapidly dropped in the jars 

 of diluted acid, beginning with the one 

 farthest from the door, which is imme- 

 diately closed and locked when the last 

 package is in. The operator should on 

 no account lose a moment in getting 

 himself outside and should avoid deep 

 breathing when distributing the cyanide, 

 as the gas is as deadly in its effects on 

 humans as on insects. The paper wrap- 

 ping of each parcel delay;s action suffi- 

 ciently to allow an active operator to 

 distribute the cyanide in a long house 

 without danger, but he should never turn 

 back or delay after commencing the op- 

 eration. 



The house may be entered in an hour 

 after the fumigation if first ventilated 

 from the outside by opening doors or 

 ventilators, but would usually better be 

 left closed until morning. Complete 

 darkness and comparative coolness are 

 necessary, when the gas is used in this 

 strength, or there may be serious injury 

 to plants. Never use it during daylight 

 or when the plants are covered with 

 moisture. The computation of space is 

 made on the basis of the empty house; 

 no allowance being made for the room 

 occupied by benches or plants. 



Wellston, Mo. — Henry Raterman, of 

 the Raterman Poultry Farm, announces 

 that hereafter his establishment will be 

 conducted under the name of the Rater- 

 man Floral Co. 



Erie, Pa.— The Erie Floral Co. has 

 just started a new two horse-power 

 Standard pumping engine. Although 

 they have city water throughout their 

 establishment, and have a steam pump 

 which they use while their boilers are in 

 operation, they find it advantageous to 

 use a Standard pumping engine for 

 pumping their manure water. Mr. Wise, 

 the superintendent, is delighted with the 

 performance of his new machine. The 

 Schluraff Floral Co., having seen this 

 pumping engine in operation, have 

 placed their order for a similar one for 

 use in their new establishment. 



VEGETABLE PUNTS 



100 1000 

 LETTUCE PLANTS, ready now, Grand 

 Rapids, Big Boston, Boston Market, 



and Tennis Ball 20c tl.OO 



PAB8LET. Moss Curled 25c 1.26 



BEETS, Eclipse 86c 1.26 



CELEBT, White Plume, Giant Pascal, 

 Golden Heart and other varieties. . . 100 



TOMATO, Earliana. Early Jewel, 

 Lorillard and Mayflower 30c 2.00 



TOHATO, Stone. Perfection, Beauty 

 and other varieties 1.00 



GABBACIB. Flat Dutch, Drumhead, Hol- 

 lander, Savoy, and other varieties.. 1.00 

 Gash with order. 



R. VINCENT JR.&SONS CO. 

 White Marsh, Md. 



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Lambert's Pare Cnltare 

 Mushroom Spawn 



Produced by new grafting 

 process from selected and 

 prolific specimens, thor- 

 oughly acclimatized. 

 Has never failed to mn 

 Sold by heading Seedsmen. 

 Practical Instructions on 



"Moflhroom Cnltnre" 

 mailed free on application. 



American Spawn Co. 

 St. FaiU, Minn. 



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Vegetable Growers Should 



Send 5 Dollars 



for a swivel wheel and 20 }^-incta noxslea. It will 

 fit a mo of 100 feet of pipe and rive you a ctaanoa 

 to try for yourself the Wlttbold Wat«rliiK 

 >T*t«in, or send for circular of teitimoniali. 



The Wlttbold Nossle, for ^-Inch hose fl.OO 



Tke Special Boss Noaale 1.00 



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



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CABBAGE 



K. J. Wakefield per 1000, $1.60 



Sonbl* Daisy, pink aud \«hite....per 100. 2.00 



Btavla, 2-incb 2 60 



Bmllax, 2-inch " 1.20 



Lobelia, Em peror, 2-iDCb " 2.00 



r. GRISWOLD, Worthington, Ohio. 



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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. 



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Crestline, O.— The Pennsylvania rail- 

 road adheres to its practice of planting 

 station grounds. Gardener McHutchin- 

 son, who has charge of the western divi- 

 sion, is now putting out the soft stock. 



Galesburo, III. — Leslie Mason, of 

 Streator, is making preparations to re- 

 move to this city for the purpose of en- 

 gaging in business as a wholesale and re- 

 tail florist. Arrangements have already 

 been completed for the erection of his 

 greenhouses. 



