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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 17, 1907. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



W. W. Rawson states that all the soil 

 used at his big vegetable forcing plant 

 at Arlington, Mass., is sterilized. 



W. B. Davis & Co., large vegetable 

 growers at Aurora, 111., say that they 

 now employ no other insecticide than 

 hydrocyanic acid gas. 



It is worth while keeping an eye on 

 the pages of European advertising in 

 the Review. There are many offers 

 there that will mean money to you to 

 know about. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



New York, Oct. 14. — Mushrooms, 20c 

 lb. 



Chicago, Oct. 15. — Leaf lettuce, 20c to 

 35c each; mushrooms, 20c to 35c lb. 



THE GROWING OF VEGETABLES. 



[A paper by W. W. Rawson, of Boston, Mass., 

 read before the Congress of Horticulture at 

 tbe Jamestown Exposition, September 23, 1907, 

 continued from the Review gt October 10.] 



- Greenhouse Construction. 



Now a word about greenhouses and 

 their construction. The foundation 

 should be of cement, the frame of iron, 

 and the purlins, in cold climates, of 

 wood. The glass should be as large as 

 possible, 20x30 inches having been found 

 to be the most economical. As to the 

 size of the houses, I would recommend 

 one twenty feet wide to be 100 feet long, 

 one thirty feet wide to be 200 feet long, 

 one forty feet wide to be 300 feet long, 

 and one fifty feet wide to be 400 feet 

 long. This proportion has proved to be 

 the most satisfactory, but I should rec- 

 ommend the larger sizes as being much 

 more economical to heat and regulate. 



I have only mentioned the way to pro- 

 duce crops as a whole in the market gar- 

 den. Each one of the crops mentioned 

 above could easily be made the subject 

 of a lecture by itself, but I have not the 

 time to go into the matter now. 



This subject of the commercial culture 

 of vegetabifes has been studied deeply in 

 New England, and the prosperity of the 

 majority of our market gardeners shows 

 with what success. 



Intensify and Specialize. 



There are many branches of agricul- 

 ture and horticulture which may be fa- 

 miliar to many men, but the method 

 today is to intensify and specialize, and 

 the truly successful man is the one who 

 cultivates only a few crops, those to 

 which his land and climate are best 

 adapted and those which have the great- 

 est demand in his market. 



We have fotmd in New England that 

 while we depend upon the farmer and 

 agriculturist of the west and south for 

 many of the necessities, they look to us 

 for many of the finer vegetables, to be 

 suppUed to them at certain seasons of 

 the year. While corn, wheat, oats and 

 potatoes are their agricultural products, 

 lettuce, cucumbers and celery are ours. 



Massachusetts is not an agricultural 

 state, but it produces annually at the 

 present time $65,000,000 worth of prod- 

 ucts, its -largest crop being cucumbers 

 under glass. In the little town where I 

 live there are today over 100 acres of 

 glass where thirty years ago there was 

 not one acre, and we produce in Arling- 

 fon more products for-^#r acreage than 



A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Raised from my Spawn, will b«ar loiic«r and yield better than from any other variety oi 

 Spawn. This is proven by facts. Full particulars and Information how to succeed in mushrooa 

 ralslngr free. We warrant you if usinr our method of arrowing- mushrooms that all will ro well 



KNUD 6UNDESTRUP 



Muahroom 

 Specialist, 



4273 Milwaukee Ave., Chicago 



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FOR FORCING 



LETTUCE 



BlK Boston 16c per oz.; $1.00 per lb. 



Grand Raplda 16>: peroz.; 1.00 per lb. 



CUCUMBER 



stokes* Perfection, hot house forcing, green- 



house-Krown seed 75c peroz ; K lb., $2 00 



Davis Perfect 250 per oz.; ^Ib., .75 



CAULIFLOWER 



stokes* Standard Poroine, the earliest cau- 

 liflower on earth, pkt. 25c; M oz., $2.50; loz., $4. 



RADISH 



Scarlet Globe Porcine French seed, flnest 



color, 1 oz., 10c: I lb., 70c; 6 lbs., $3 00. 

 Snow-Wlilte Box, 1 oz., lOc; 1 lb., 60c; 5 lbs., 



$2.50. 

 I am a Market Gardener's Seedsman. Send 



me in your list ot wants for next season. Ton 



will like my stocks and my prices. 



819 Market St., Philadelphia 



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any other town in the country and, I may 

 say, the world. There are many hun- 

 dreds of acres under glass in the state 

 of Massachusetts, all producing crops of 

 lettuce and cucumbers, where forty years 

 ago no glass was used. 



The men of those days did well on 

 their outside growing, but by the intel- 

 ligent use of all the new methods and 

 inventions great changes have been made. 

 The sons of those men followed their 

 fathers and are cultivating successfully 

 today the same land with the improved 

 methods, and ever looking forward to 

 still greater improvements and thereby 

 larger and better crops. The most suc- 

 cessful of these market gardeners at 

 present confine themselves to a few crops 

 having a ready sale all the season, 

 thereby having a continuous crop and 

 steady returns. 



Profits of Market Gardeniog. 



All of these men will testify that the 

 business of market gardening can b« 

 made as profitable as any other business 

 and they can live better, feel better and 

 know that what they enjoy really be- 

 longs to them and is not obtained by 

 speculation. 



The time is coming when the business 

 of agriculture will stand as high as any 

 calling, and in the future those engaged 

 in it will be looked up to as men of in- 

 telligence and knowledge and be re- 

 spected as exponents of the leading in- 

 dustry of mankind. 



To the young man of today I would 

 say: Study agriculture. Apply yourself 

 to that part of it to which you are 

 adapted and which you like best, and 

 you may be sure there is no calling in 

 which you will take greater pleasure. The 

 profit is sure to come to those who follow 

 it, and among the first branches of agri- 

 culture will be found the commercial 

 growing of vegetables. 



Thk Bivnw will send Smith's Mum 

 Manual for 40 rants. 



FLORISTS 



Have a splendid opportunity 

 of raising Mnsbroonia by 

 utilizing the waate space 

 under the benrhea, and 

 then utilizing the » aaie ma* 

 tertal of expended mush- 

 room beds in growing flowers. 

 Now is the time to make your 

 beds. 



Lambert's Pure Caltnre 

 MUSHROOM SPAWN, 

 the best Mushroom Spawn in the market, is sold by all 

 leading seedsmen. A fresh sample brick, enough for 

 a small trial bed, together with large illustrated book 

 on "Mushroom Culture," will be mailed post- 

 paid upon receipt of 40c in postage stamps. Address 

 Amertcan Spawn Company, St. Paul, Atlnn. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Skinner's Irrigation. 



For greenhouses, gardens and lawns. 

 Latest improved gasoline pumping out- 

 fits at low price. Kstimates furnished 

 on request. Address, 



C. W. SKINNER. Troy, O. 



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1,000,000 

 Lettuce Plants 



Grand Rapids, Black* Seeded Simpson, 



$1.00 per lOlO; $9.00 per 10,000. 



B.E.Wadswortli,Box224.DanvillB,lll. 



KANSAS aXY. 



Eugene Rust, general manager of the 

 Union Stock Yards Co., is the moving 

 spirit in the flower ghow held in the 

 stock pavilion this week as an adjunct 

 to the American Royal Live Stoek show. 

 When Mr. Rust conceived the idea of 

 adding the floral feature to the Amer- 

 ican Royal he secured the cooperation 

 of W. L. Rock, who in turn enlisted the 

 aid of the local people and secured a 

 number of exhibits from out-of-town 

 growers, including a splendid vase of 

 the Mrs. Marshall Field rose from Peter 

 Reinberg, Chicago. The show occupies 

 40,000 square feet of space in the pa- 

 vilion. Monday was garden flower day, 

 Tuesday was rose day and chrysanthe- 

 mums and carnations the special attrac- 

 tions for Wednesday and Thursday. Fri- 

 day and Saturday the program calls fot 

 violets, valley and orchids. It was Mr. 

 Rock's idea to designate one day spe- 

 cially for br'des-to-be and make a fiuiture 

 of a display of wedding arrangements. 



The American Pomological Society at 

 its biennial session at the Jamestown ex- 

 position, September 24, awarded to Ell- 

 wanger & Barry the Wilder medal, for 

 their display of fruit, consisting of 111 

 varieties of pears, ninety-six varieties of 

 apples and forty varieties of grapes. The 

 firm has just received an order for nurs- 

 ery stock from the United States gov- 

 ernment to be shipped to the Philippine 

 islands. 



New York, N. Y. — A stone green- 

 house, 136x159 feet, will be erected in 

 Bronx Park Botanical Garden, at a cost 

 of $62,796. The architects are Brinley 

 & Holbrook. 



