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The Weekly Rorists' Review* 



Decbmbkb 19, 1907. 



Beauties, Violets, Valley 



ROSFS PITTSBURG CUT FLOWER CO. Ltd. 



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The organization is to be congratulated 

 in having secured the services of a care- 

 ful, conservative and well trained man in 

 the person of Professor Johnson, and all 

 possible success is hoped for the under- 

 taking. It is a new field of work and 

 will of course present innumerable 

 problems, a few only of which can be 

 taken up and solved at once. It will be 

 necessary to devote years of careful 

 study and research to this industry, 

 which has sprung up and grown to such 

 gigantic proportions in comparatively 

 few years, for it involves many problems 

 peculiar to itself, which have never been 

 touched upon by the regular experiment 

 station workers of the countrj'. It is 

 fortunate, therefore, that this station 

 has been established in a region so pre- 

 eminently devoted to trucking as is the 

 territory in the neighborhood of Norfolk 

 and Portsmouth, Va. L. C. Corbett. 



ELECTRiaTY IN GREENHOUSES. 



Have any readers had any experience 

 in the growing of mushrooms by elec- 

 tricity? If so, will they kindly give their 

 experience? L. F. M. 



Lettuce, radishes and some other vege- 

 . table crops have been forwarded to some 

 extent by the use of electric light and 

 some of the large market growers, such 

 as W. W. Bawson, of Arlington, Mass., 

 have experimented a good deal along 

 these lines. A good many experiments 

 have also been made at Cornell and other 

 agricultural colleges. I am unaware if 

 mushrooms have been included in the in- 

 vestigations. Any advantage to them 

 must come from applying an electric cur- 

 rent to the soil, as mushrooms are of 

 a whiter color when grown in the dark. 

 Mr. Bawson has found that some vege- 

 tables come to maturity earlier where 

 electricity has been applied to the soil 

 and there would seem to be no good rea- 

 son why a gentle, steady current in 

 mushroom beds would not bring the crop 

 along earlier. 



It is possible experiments may have 

 been made along these lines and I trust 

 any other readers who may have knowl- 

 edge of such will send a few lines to 

 the Eeview on the subject. C. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Dec. 18. — Cucumbers, 60c to 

 80c doz.; leaf lettuce, 10c to 12Vl.c ease. 



Boston, Dec. 11. — Cucumbers, $5 to 

 $6 box; tomatoes, 10c to 12c lb.; rad- 

 ishes, $1.50 to $2 box; mint, 50c doz.; 

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

 doz.; lettuce, 25e to 50c box; mushrooms, 

 50c to 60c lb.; parsley, 75c to $1 box. 



New York, Dec. 16. — No. 1 cucum- 

 bers, 75c to 90e doz.; No. 2, $2 to $3.50 

 box; lettuce, 40c to $1 per strap of 3 

 doz.; mushrooms, 15c to 50c lb.; mint, 

 30c to 50c doz. bunches; radishes, $1.50 

 to $2.50 per 100 bunches; tomatoes, 5c 

 to 15c lb. 



I oouLD not do without the Eeview. 

 — ^Warren L. Johnson, Andover, Mass. 



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Pittsburg. Dec. 18. 

 Per doi. 



Beauty, Specials $3.00to 16.00 



Fancy 2.00to 2.60 



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Per 100 



Bride and Bridesmaid, Fancy $8 00 to $12.00 



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Short 2.00 to 4.00 



Richmond 6.00 to 16.00 



Klllamey 600 to 12.00 



Ohatenay O.OOto 15.00 



Perle 6.00 



Ooain 6.00 



Carnations, Ordinary 8.00 



Fancy 4.00to 5.00 



Adlantum l.OOto 1.25 



Ajparagus Plumosas, Strings 60.00 



" Sprays, bunch, 40o-60c 

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Smllax 18.00 



Valley 4.00 



Lilies 20.00 



Violet! l.OOto 1.26 



Oattleyas 76.00 



Paper Whites 8.00 to 4.00 



Romans l.OOto 8.00 



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