Januabt 2, 1908. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



39 



Vegetable Fordflg. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Chicago, Dec. 31. — Cucumbers, 60c to 

 80c doz.; leaf lettuce, 12%c to 20c case. 



New Yoek, Dec. 30.— No. 1 cucum- 

 bers, 75c to $1.25 doz, ; No. 2 cucumbers, 

 $2 to $3.50 box; head lettuce, 10c to 40c 

 doz.; mushrooms, 10c to 40c lb.; mint, 

 30c to 50c doz. bunches; radishes, $2 to 

 $3 per 100 bunches; tomatoes, 4c to 12c 

 lb. 



Boston, Dec. 30. — The unseasonable 

 warm weather the past week has hurt 

 trade, which is rather quiet. Cucumbers, 

 $5 to $7 box; tomatoes, 15c to 18e lb.; 

 romaine, 75c doz.; escaroUe, 75c doz.; 

 lettuce, 25c to 40c box; mushrooms, 30c 

 to 50c lb.; parsley, $1 to $1.50 box. 



VEGETABLES AS A SIDE LINE. 



There are probably no readers of the 

 Review who could be more benefited by 

 reading the articles on vegetables indoors 

 than the small growers who do a retail 

 trade with at least a part of the stock 

 grown. Such places we find in every 

 city and in many small towns. We have 

 met some growers who grow both flowers 

 and vegetables and who make use of 

 every foot of space in their houses at all 

 times, but such places are seldom found, 

 and more often the visitor will see empty 

 benches and half filled houses, or houses 

 partly or completely filled with worth- 

 less stock because there does not seem 

 to be any need of the room at the mo- 

 ment. Such a condition is more likely 

 to be noticed by the traveling salesman 

 or the visitor than by the proprietor, be- 

 cause the one who is in charge often 

 permits his houses to get into such shape 

 gradually and unnoticed, with his mind 

 intent on funeral work and retail sales, 

 or planning on bedding stock, etc., for 

 the coming spring; and before he is 

 aware of it his place looks as if it was 

 very much mismanaged. 



Whether it is mismanagement or lack 

 of knowledge, it would be well for us 

 all to shake ourselves occasionally and 

 look around. Perhaps some one else has 

 been learning all the time we were 

 dreaming. Suppose we go out and visit 

 our competitors and others and see how 

 they are doing; read the Review care- 

 fully, and ask ourselves if after all it 

 might not pay better to throw out a 

 lot of rubbish and get something grow- 

 ing that will bring in some money. 



It takes no more rent or interest, no 

 more coal and little more expense to 

 have the houses full, and full of some- 

 thing that will sell, than to be wasting 

 fuel, time, etc., on half-filled houses or 

 poor stock. 



Vegetables* as a side crop would actu- 

 ally double the profits on many green- 

 house establishments, and it would be 

 well for all growers to get posted on 

 vegetable forcing and then get expe- 

 rience. How often we see the mum house 

 standing with the last remnants of the 

 crop hanging on the strings for weeks 

 after it has ceased to pay for the fuel 

 it takes to keep the frost out, when a 

 fine crop of radishes or lettuce could be 

 had in a few weeks if the grower had 

 only looked ahead and planned what to 

 put in as soon as he could possibly cut 

 the last of the bench of blooms. 



It takes only a little work to get a 

 nice batch of lettuce plants up and 



Seeds for the Market Gardener 



Is our specialty. Quality our first consideratioD. We have a very large and complete 

 stock of all kinds of seeds and everything: In the line of fruit trees, berry bushes, etc. 

 Our new 104-paKe catalogue contaiDs true descriptions and no overdrawn illustra- 

 tions. Our prices are right, quality considered. Market Gardeners are requested to 

 write for our M. Q. Wholesale Catalogue, sent free on request. 



GERMAN NURSERIES & SEED HOUSE, '"S'.^" BEATRICE, NEB. 



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A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Balaed from our Spawn, will bear lonKer and jrlcld bettar than from any other variety of 

 Spawn. This Is proven by facts. Full particulars and Information how to sueceed in mushroom 

 raising free. We warrant you if usins our method of growing mushrooms that all will go well. 



KIRKEBY & 6UNDESTRUP, ?r<S, 4273 Milwaukee Ave., GhioagO 



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SEASONABLE SEEDS 



LiviDgston's True Blue Strains. 



.M-lb., 86c.; lb., 11.26 



.J<-lb.,20c.;lb., .60 

 .)i-lb.,(iOc.;lb., 2.00 



Ijettiioe>Grand Raplda. . . . 

 Cnoamber-Select White 



Spine 



Cnonmber-DaTis Perfect. 

 Caoamber<Rawaon*e Hot 



Hoaae Forclnor M-lb., 11.60; lb., 6.00 



Caiillflower-L.iTlnKstoii's 



Oreenliooae Forcer M-oz., 76c.; oz., 2.60 



Badlsh'KlrebaU M-lb.,20c.; lb., .60 



Kadlsh-Im. Scarlet Globe. M-lb., 20c. ; lb., .60 



Badlsh«Kosy Uem M-lb.,20c.; lb., .60 



Tomato-L'aStone.oz.,26c.; M-lb., 7&c.; lb., 2.60 

 Tomato-L'aGlobe,oz.,40c;M;lb.,ll.40; lb., 6.00 

 TomatO'Ii'a Beaaty.oz.,26c; }i-lb.,60c: lb., 1.76 



If to be mailed add 8c. per lb. for postage. 



LIVINGSTON SEED CO., ?o^' Columbus, 0. 



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Grand Rapids 

 Lettuce Plants 



$1.00 par 1000. $9.00 p«r 10.000. 



B. E. WADSWORTH 



BOX 224 DANVIIXS, ILL. 



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transplanted into flats, or on a bench 

 like young carnations, and have them 

 just right when the house or bench will 

 be ready to clean out. The soil could 

 be manured and forked over and the 

 plants all transplanted the second time 

 in a day. Or radishes could be planted 

 and in a month sold and cleaned up be- 

 fore the room is needed for the bulb 

 stock or bedding plants which are being 

 potted up, and toward spring, when the 

 violets are about done, the room could 

 all be used for something. G. H. 



North Germantown, N. Y. — H. "W. 

 Albreeht and S. W. Albrecht have 

 started a violet house here. 



Milwaukee, Wis. — H. W. Koerner 

 says that his business in 1907 was more 

 than double what it was in 1906, and 

 there is every indication of a further 

 increase in 1908. 



Springfield, Mo. — The Pioneer Floral 

 Co. has just completed an addition of 

 6,000 feet of glass, which will be de- 

 voted especially to the growing of carna- 

 tions. Christmas trade here was brisk. 

 Nearly every florist cleaned out at good 

 prices. 



"Wilton Junction, Ia. — E. Friederich- 

 sen & Sons, whose houses include 12,000 

 square feet of glass, had an excellent 

 business in flowering plants and cut 

 flowers during the last year. Trade in 

 vegetables, they say, has been a little 

 slow the first part of this winter. 



FIjORISTS have a splendid oppor- 

 tunity of raising: Mushrooms by 

 utilizing: the waate space under the 

 benches, and then utilizing: the ivaste 

 material of expended mushroom 

 beds in g:rowing: flowers. Now is the 

 time to make your beds. ]L.anibert'a 

 Pnre Culture MVSHKOOai 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 postpaid upon 

 receiptof 40c in postage stamps. Address American 

 Spawn Company, St. Paul, Minn. 



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Lettuce Plants 



Grand Rapids, Boston Markat and Blc 

 Boston, 26c per 100; $1.00 per 1000. 



TflilATn Mayflower and LorlUard, 

 I UIVIAI U 60c per 100. 



R.VINCENT,Jr.&SONSCO.,WhiteMarsh,Md. 



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Skinner's Irrigation. 



For greenhonees, gardens and lawnB. 

 Latest improved gasoline pumping out- 

 fits at low price. Estimates fumished 

 on request. Address, 



C. W. SKINNER, Troy, O. 



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COMET TOM/ITO SEED 



Grown from true stock. Excellent for forcing. 

 60c and tl.OO per pkt. H. M. SANDEB<*ON. 

 Ill LINCOLN ST., WAI.THAM, MASS. 

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Wholesale Gut Flower Prices. 



Milwaukee. Dec. 81. 

 Per 100 



Beaaty, Long $35.00 to $50 oo 



Medliun 1600 to 



Short S.OOto 



Bride and Bridesmaid 6.00 to 



Golden Oate, Ohatenay 6.00 to 



Richmond 6.00 to 



Perle 6.00 to 



Carnations 4.00 to 



Valley 



Violets 



Asparagtu Plumosns, Strincs 



" " Sprays 



Sprengeri, " 



Smllaz 



Adiantimi 



Lilies per dos., 12 00 



Paper Whites 



Romans 



Stevia 



25.00 



12.00 



10.00 



10.00 



15.00 



8.00 



6.00 



8.00 



1.60 



50.00 



8.00 



8.00 



ao.oo 



1.00 



8.00 

 2.00 

 1.50 



Cleveland, Dec. 81. 

 Per 100 



Kaiserin $ 4.00 to$ 8.00 



Bride and Bridesmaid S.OOto 15.00 



Carnations 4.00to 6.00 



Adlantum Cuneatnm i.oo 



Asparagus Plumosus, Strings 26.00 to 50.00 



" " Sprays 1.00 to 3.00 



Sprengerl, 2.00 to 4.00 



Smllax 1500to 20.00 



Paper Whitea 3.00to 4.00 



Romans S.OOto 4.00 



Violets 1.60to 2.00 



SweetPeas l.OOto 1.60 



Lilies per doz., $1.60to$t.00 



