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The Weekly Rorists' Review, 



Mat 14, 1908. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



If Vaporite, the new English product, 

 will do what it is said to do, the life of 

 the market gardener will become one of 

 luxury and ease. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Chicago, May 12. — Cucumbers, 25c to 

 75c doz. ; leaf lettuce, 20c to 25c case; 

 watercress, 10c doz.; radishes, 15c to 35c 

 doz. bunches; mushrooms, 35c to 60e lb. 



Boston, May 11. — Radishes, $1.50 to 

 $1.75 box; cucumbers, $2 to $5 box; to- 

 matoes, 20c to 25c lb.; lettuce, 50c to 

 $1 doz.; mint, 75c to $1 doz.; mush- 

 rooms, $2.50 4-lb. box. 



New York, May 11. — Mushrooms in 

 light supply and high. Cucumbers 

 steady. Radishes and rhubarb quiet. 

 No. 1 cucumbers, $2.50 to $4 box; No. 2 

 cucumbers, $1.50 to $2 box; lettuce, 35c 

 to 75c doz.; mushrooms, 30c to 90c lb.; 

 radishes, $1.75 to $2.50 per 100 bunches; 

 rhubarb, $1.50 to $2 per 100 bunches; 

 mint, 25c to 50c doz. bunches. 



BEANS UNDER GLASS. 



' ' While beans are not grown commer- 

 cially under glass, ' ' said Wm. Turner, of 

 Oceanic, N. J., in a talk before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 "they are very acceptable for the pri- 

 vate table, and far superior to any that 

 can be procured in the open market dur- 

 ing the winter months; therefore, for 

 private greenhouses beans are to be 

 highly recommended as a forced vege- 

 table. When grown successfully it is 

 surprising the quantity that can be gath- 

 ered from them. There are two methods 

 of growing this crop — in pots or on 

 raised benches. If grown in pots, half 

 fill 6-inch or 7-inch pots with fairly rich, 

 porous soil, then plant about six beans 

 in a pot.' As the beans grow keep adding 

 soil by degrees, until filled. It takes 

 about seven weeks to mature a crop 

 grown in a temperature of 60 to 65 de- 

 grees at night, with 70 to 75 day tem- 

 perature. The bench system is my 

 preference, as there is not so much labor 

 and attention required, and results are 

 equal, if not better." 



ONIONS UNDER GLASS. 



I noticed a short time ago a very 

 useful article on celery. Would you 

 give us one on onions f Will it be any 

 advantage to sow in a greenhouse and 

 plant out like setsf What varieties are 

 most profitable and would they grow well 

 in a black soil with clay subsoil f It 

 is a little wet, but I thought I could 

 make raised beds. J. M. 



It is advantageous to sow onions in- 

 doors and plant out later, insofar that it 

 lengthens the season and gives a much 

 larger onion, but our experience is that 

 the onion does not keep so well as small- 

 er sized onions grown entirely outdoors. 

 You are too late for this season to give 

 this method a fair trial, as for best re- 

 sults seeds should be sown in January, 

 in flats, pricked over once to prevent 

 the plants from becoming drawn and 

 weakly, and the plants should be hard- 

 ened oflf gradually before setting out 

 time, which in your section would be 

 about the beginning of May. 



Your soil ought to suit them, as onions 



Vegetable Plants.... 



CABBAGB-Wakefield, L. I. SecoDd Early, 

 Early Plat Dutch, Early Summer, Wlnningstadt 

 and other late varieties, $1.00 per 1000; $8.50 per 

 10,000. 



BKXTS— EclipBe, Crosby's and Egyptian, 25c 

 per 1 00: $1 .26 per 1000. 



LKTTUCK- Boston Market, Tennis Ball, Big 

 Boston and Grand Rapids, 20c per 100; $1.00 per 

 1000. 



CELKRT- White Plume and G. S. Blanching, 

 20c per 100; $1.00 per 1000. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



R.VINCENT,Jr.fcSONSCO.,WhiteMarsh,Md. 



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like a rather heavy soil. The varieties 

 usually grown are the large growers, 

 like Prizetaker and Elsa Craig, but 1 

 have tried some of the older kinds, such 

 as Yellow Globe Danvers and Southport 

 White Globe, with good results. 



Wm. Scott. 



MUSHROOMS ON TOMATO BEDS. 



I have 250 feet of hotbed, with eight- 

 een inches of manure for bottom heat. 

 It was planted to lettuce and in April 

 I grew tomato plants. After May 15 

 the bed will be vacant and I should 

 like to know if I could grow mush- 

 rooms on it. Would it be profitable? 

 If so, please state how to plant them. 

 I have about four inches of soil on the 

 manure. C. R. 



I am sorry to have to throw cold 

 water on your idea, but I do not for 

 one moment think that you would have 

 any success. In the first place, your bed 

 would be too far spent to supply suf- 

 ficient heat to get the spawn to spread 

 freely. And in the second place, if you 

 did succeed in getting mushrooms they 

 would be rendered useless by the attack 

 of the mushroom mite, which I find 

 always proves troublesome with us 

 through the late spring and early summer 

 months. Wm. Scott. 



DETROIT. 



The Market 



There was a marked scarcity of stock 

 last week, brought about by cloudy weath- 

 er and a good demand. Of course, the 

 falling off of spring stock had its ef- 

 fect as well. Business remains quite 

 brisk. 



The unveiling of the Schiller monu- 

 ment on Sunday called for aoout thirty 

 wreaths for the different German so- 

 cieties. Most of these were made of 

 leucothoe, laurel, boxwood, etc. Many 

 were also made of flowers, and some of 

 these were wonderful creations, to place 

 on a newly unveiled monument. 



With the advent of the warm weather 

 there is a demand for laurels and box- 

 woods, and as but few in the trade han- 

 dle them in this city, these reap the 

 profits. 



Qub Meeting. 



The last regular meeting of the De- 

 troit Florists' Club was held on the 

 evening of May 6. There was but a 

 small attendance and the meeting was 

 not called to order until late in the 

 evening. 



Michael Bloy was unanimously elected 

 a member of the club. Mr. Bloy but 

 recently took up his residence in Detroit, 

 where he has purchased the Rackham 

 place. 



A. Coggan, of Canada, made applica- 

 tion for membership in the -club. His 



With the Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Irrigation ONE 

 MAN can do the work 

 of FORTY MEN wa- 

 tering with a hose. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, 0.::r' ! 



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FLORISTS have a splendid oppar- 

 tunity of raising BXnabroomi DT 

 utilizing the waste apace under the 

 benches, and then utillxinKthe wane 

 material of expended mushroom 

 beds in grrowingr flowers. Iiambert'l 

 Pure Culture MUSHROOM 

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

 leading seedsmen. A fresh sample brick, enough for 

 a triailbed, together with illustrated book on Mnsh- 

 room Culture," will be mailed postpaid upon receipt 

 of 40c in postage stamps. Address Amerloan 

 Spawn Company, St. Paul, Minn. 



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2,000,000 TOMATO PLANTS 



Dwarf Stone, New Stone. Livingston's Beauty, 

 $1.26 per 100 : $10.00 per 10,000. 



....GERANIUMS.... 



Rlcard. Nutt, rooted cuttings, $1.50 per 100; 

 $12.50 per 1000. German Ivy, 3-in.. $3.00 per 100. 



B. E. WAD8W0RTH, Box 224, Danville, III. 



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application will be voted upon at the 

 next meeting. 



The president called on the different 

 members present for their version of 

 the Easter trade, and a summing up of 

 the whole showed general satisfaction. 



There was some talk of a ball game 

 between teams representing the two 

 wholesale houses, but nothing definite 

 was done. 



For some reason there is a lack of 

 interest in the affairs of the club and 

 the attendance does not compare favor- 

 ably with meetings of previous years, 

 when fully fifty per cent turned out^ 

 The program committee has promised 

 something startling for the next meet- 

 ing, and it is to be hoped that the boys 

 will turn out in large numbers. 



Various Notes. 



Assistant Park Commissioner William 

 Dilger acted as chief marshal in the 

 parade on Belle Isle, Sunday, May 10. 

 He made a striking appearance on horse- 

 back. 



Maurice Wolf is having a streak of 

 hard luck. After being stung twice 

 in succession by check forgers, his lease 

 in the Ix>raine was taken from him with- 

 out a day's notice, and then, to cap the 

 climax, about $28 worth of goods he 

 had purchased at an auction sale was 

 stolen while he was in search of an 

 express wagon. 



Philip Breitmeyer and Harry Hunter 

 have been appointed members of a com- 

 mittee for the inspection of fruit trees 

 and orchards, organized under a state 

 law. This gives them the right to em- 

 ploy tree inspectors and to condemn 

 those trees found to be diseased. D. 8. 

 Kimball has been hired as tree inspector 

 and given orders to clean out the dead 

 trees first. 



The Lohrman Seed Co. removed May 

 11 from its old quarters just around the 



