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The Weekly Rorists^ Review. 



NUhch 26, 1908. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



It is stated that when Florida truck- 

 ers get a cent apiece, net, for cucumbers, 

 or the same return for head lettuce, 

 they are making a good profit. C. W. 

 Skinner, the irrigation man, adds to 

 this that the only drawback to Florida 

 as a market gardening state — the one 

 thing that stands in the way of its 

 being the truckers' paradise — is the poor 

 railroad service and high transportation 

 charges. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Chicago, March 24. — Cucumbers, 50c 

 to $1.75 doz.; leaf lettuce, 20c to 22i/oc 

 case; watercress, 10c to 20c doz.; rad- 

 ishes, 15c to 50c dozen bunches; mush- 

 rooms, 30e to 50c lb. 



Boston, March 23. — Eadishes, $1.75 to 

 $2 box; cucumbers, $2.50 to $8 box; 

 tomatoes, 40c lb.; parsley, $1 to $1.25 

 box; lettuce, 50c to 75c 2-doz. box; 

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

 chicory, $1 doz. ; mint, 75c to $1 doz. ; 

 mushrooms, $2 box; rhubarb, 7c to 8c lb. 



Xew Yobk, March 23. — Mushrooms 

 in fair demand and rather firm. Cu- 

 cumbers firm for fancy. Lettuce gen- 

 erally poor. Eadishes and rhubarb steady. 

 Tomatoes in light supply, but moving 

 slowly. Beet tops, $1 bu. box; No. 1 

 cucumbers, $1 to $1.50 doz.; No. 2 cu- 

 cumbers, $3 to $4.50 box; lettuce, 25c 

 to 75c doz.; mushrooms, 25c to 50c lb.; 

 radishes, $2 to $4 per 100 bunches; rhu 

 barb, 40e to 50c doz. bunches; tomatoes, 

 15c to 25c lb.; mint, 20c to 30c doz. 

 bunches. 



FORaNG ASPARAGUS. 



Forced asparagus brings a high price 

 "luring the winter in the large markets. 

 The usual plan is to dig up roots that 

 are not less than four or five years old 

 for this purpose. Those two or three 

 years old do not produce stalks of suffi- 

 cient thickness. When doing away with 

 an old bed, it will pay to dig up the 

 roots and store them in a shed where 

 they are cool, but just clear of freez- 

 ing. As many roots as there is space 

 for can then be housed at a time. The 

 roots are better for being well frozen be- 

 fore being lifted. 



Forcing can be done either in a green- 

 house, on the benches, or underneath. A 

 warm cellar where mushrooms and rhu- 

 barb are forced also answers well. The 

 stalks usually seen in winter are grown 

 in the dark and are really more tender 



A BED OF MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will b«ar loncer and yield better than from any other variety of 

 Spawn. ThlB 1b proTen by facts. Full partioolars and information how to succeed in mnahrooa 

 raising free. We warrant you If uslnr our method of rrowing mushrooms that all will go well. 



KIRKEBY & 6UNDESTRUP, tSSS,, 4273 Milwaukee Aye., Chicago 



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VEGETABLE PLANTS ! 



TOMATO. Mayflower, Lorillard, Earl- 

 iana, Early June Pink and Early Jew- 

 el, 30c per 100, $2.00 per 1000. 



BEETS. Egyptian and Crosby's, 20c 

 per 100, $1.25 per 1000. 



CELERY. White Plume & Golden Self- 

 Blanching, 20c per 100, $1.25 per 1000. 



PARSLEY. Moss Curled, 30c per 100, 

 $2.00 per 1000. 



CAULIFLOWER. Early Snow Ball, 

 50c per 100. 



LETTUCE. Grand Rapids, $1.00 per 1000 



PEPPER & EGG PLANTS. Ready for trans- 

 planting, 40c per 100, $2.00 per 1000. 



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



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FLORISTS have a splendid opper- 

 tunity of raising^ Mnshrooms b; 

 utilizintr the waste space under the 

 benches, and then utilizing: the waste 

 material of expended mushroom 

 beds in grrowing: flowers. Lambert's 

 Pure Culture MUSHROOM 

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

 leading seedsmen. A fresh sample brick, enougrh for 

 a trial Ded, togrether with illustrated book on "Mush- 

 room Culture," will be mailed postpaid upon receipt 

 of 40c in postagre stamps. Address American 

 Spawn Company, St. Paol, Minn. 



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and of better flavor than when produced 

 in the light. All that is necessary to do in 

 forcing asparagus is to spread out the 

 roots, pack the plants as closely as pos- 

 sible, and cover the whole with fine earth, 

 giving a good soaking of water as soon 

 as the covering is on, and keeping them 

 moist at the root. In a night tempera- 

 ture of 65 degrees asparagus will be 

 fit to cut in a little over two weeks and 

 will continue to bear about three weeks. 

 As soon as stalks become thin, throw out 

 the roots and bring in another batch. 

 In bunching for market, tie six or eight 

 of the thickest stalks in each bunch. The 

 smaller stalks should be tied together and 

 will sell, but at a lower price. W. 



LAINSOlSrS VEGETABLE PLANT. 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the two greenhouse plants of F. L. Lain- 

 son, who grows greenhouse vegetables at 

 Council Bluffs, la. Mr. Lainson has two 

 separate ranges, heated from the same set 

 of boilers. The new house built last sum- 

 mer is the one to the left in the illustra- 



THE cost of labor saved 

 in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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Rhubarb Crowns 



WANTED 



We want from 2000 to 5000 No. 1 

 crowns for forcing purposes. They must 

 be at least two years without pulling, 

 and in prime condition. Address No. 

 147, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



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tion and it is said to be the largest vege- 

 table house west of Chicago, being 50x200 

 feet and sixteen feet to the ridge. It has 

 four sets of ventilators, one run in each 

 side and double runs of ventilators at the 

 ridge. The sashes at the ridge are oper- 

 ated by the apparatus manufactured by 

 the John C. Moninger Co., Chicago, and 

 those on the side by the Evans Ctmllenge 

 machines. "With so much ventilation it is 

 easy to control the temperature, even in 

 warm weather. The house has concrete 

 gutters on the ground to carry the water. 

 The glass is 16x18, double strength. The 

 radiation is all 1%-inch pipe, being fed 

 with a 5-inch steam main, branching off 

 into 2-inch flow pipes. The boiler-house 

 shown in the illustration was destroyed 

 last spring by fire and with it went 110 

 feet of adjoining greenhouse, but this 

 was all back in working order in three 

 days. The two ranges are heated by two 

 eighty horse-power boilers. 



Vegetable Growing Establishment of F. L. Lainson, Cottndl Bluffs, la. 



