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The Weekly Florists' Review^ 



Septembeb 10, 1008. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



Terbe Haute, Ind. — The David Dick- 

 eon Produce Co., of Pittsburg, recently 

 purchased sixty-three acres of land in 

 Honeycreek township, south of this city. 

 The company has filed a certificate of in- 

 corporation, with $40,000 capital stock, 

 and will at once proceed to erect a large 

 range of greenhouses for vegetables. 



FORCING TOMATOES. 



On page 25 of the Eevievv^ for Sep- 

 tember 3 there was a description of the 

 houses used for the experiments in to- 

 mato forcing conducted at Macdonald 

 College, Quebec. 



Starting the Plants. 



The plants for house No. 1 of this 

 paper were started from seed sown Sep- 

 tember 36, in flats. These were pricked 

 off into 3Mj-inch pots three weeks later, 

 and carried in these pots to November 

 22, or nine weeks, when they were set 

 into the permanent bed, being about 

 twelve inches high at that time. 



The plants for house No. 2 were 

 started December 15, in flats, and pricked 

 off a month later into 3 V^ -inch pots. 

 They were again shifted to 5-inch pots 

 February 20, nnd set into benches March 

 12. The plants at that time were 

 eighteen inches high. It will be seen 

 that these plants were carried three 

 months before benching. It is safe to 

 say, therefore, that the period between 

 sowing the seed and pricking off will be 

 from ■ three to four weeks. The plants 

 can then be carried in 3 V^ -inch pots from 

 four to five weeks, but if a longer period 

 is required a shift to 5-inch pots is neces- 

 sary in order to keep the plants growing 

 and healthy, it is also well to bear in 

 mind that while it is possible to carry a 

 plant in a 3i^-inch pot during the early 

 part of the winter, yet, owing to a much 

 more rapid growth toward spring, this 

 would be impossible without stunting the 

 plant. In no case is it advisable to carry 

 the plants longer than three months be- 

 fore benching. 



Fruiting Period. 



Plants set into benches in house No. 

 1, November 22, gave their first ripe 

 fruit the middle of March. The time, 

 therefore, required for the plants to come 

 into fruiting was 113 days. These con- 

 tinued in fruit until the middle of May, 

 or sevei\ty-one days. Those set into 

 benches in house No. 2, !March 12, gave 

 their first fruit May 12, or in sixty-one 

 days, and continued in fruit till the end 

 of July, a period of seventy-seven days. 



It will be seen that the plants oc- 

 cupied the benches in house No. 1 about 

 fifty-two days longer than those in house 

 No. 2 before coming into fruiting. The 

 fruiting period was of about the same 

 duration in both houses. Allowing, 

 therefore, that the plants set in house 

 No. 1 could have been carried two weeks 

 longer by shifting into a 5-inch pot, it 

 still would have been necessary to carry 

 these plants five weeks longer in benches 

 in order to get ripe fruit during March 

 and April than to secure fruit in house 

 No. 2 during May and June. 



Distance Apart. 



The plants in house No. 1 were set 

 diagonally in rows twelve inches apart 

 .ind fourteen inches apart in the rows. 



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CABBAGE 



Wakefield and Succession, 25c per 100, 

 $1.00 per 1000. 



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Wishes a position on first-class place; under- 

 stands the business thoroughly under glass and 

 outdoors: also understands the flower business 

 thoroughly; can take full charge; full particulars 

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This would bring the plants about four- 

 teen inches apart each way. House No. 

 2 was set diagonally in rows fifteen 

 inches apart and twenty-two inches apart 

 in the row, bringing the plants about 

 eighteen inches apart each way, which 

 distance is the one generally recom- 

 mended. 



The Yield. 



The yield of ripe fruit from these 



houses and the cash returns for fruit 



sold for each period of two weeks are 



as follows: 



Average 

 No. of Value of per lb. 



Ilons-^ No. 1. pounds, fruit sold. Cents. 



March 15 to April 1.. SlVj $19.15 2.3.49 

 April : to April 15.. 193% 49.98 25.81 



April ir, to May 1 248^ 53.44 21.55 



.Mnv 1 to May 15.... 59V4 14.05 23.71 



May 15 to May 25... 59V6 13.15 22.10 



House No. 2. 



Mav 12 to June 1 129% 25.75 19.84 



June 1 to June 15 205% 31.03 15.10 



Juno 15 to July 1.... SOSy* 50.22 10.45 



July 1 to July 15.... 196^! 32.76 10.68 



July 15 to July 29.... 187% 23.55 12.56 



Average price per pound for house No. 1, 23 

 cents. 



Average price per pound for bouse No. 2, 16 

 cents. 



The following table gives the area in 

 plants and the average yield per plant 



and per square foot: 



Av'ge 



price 



Bench Av. per Av. per per 



area. Fruit. plant, sq. ft. lb. 



Hous*. Sq. ft. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Cts. 



No. 1 220 650>A 3.20 2.95 23 



No. 2 384 1.024% 5.28 2.67 16 



(To be Continued.) 



Madison, N. J.— C. H. Totty and 

 family, who have been vacationing in 

 England, sailed for home September 2. 



Pekin, III. — George A. Kuhl and Mrs. 

 Kuhl have been at Old Orchard, Me., 

 since the convention. They will visit 

 Boston next week. 



THE cost of labor saved 

 ' in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



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Mr. Eugene Davis, Grand Rapids, Mich., origin- 

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 three years' subscription to the Journal. Allow 

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 Mr. Waid, Mr. Massey. and 'Grower.' The arti- 

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FLiOBISTS have a splendid o% por- 

 tunit^ of raisinK Bfaahrooma by 

 ntiliiinr the waste i^ace under the 

 benches, and then utilizina: the wait* 

 material of expendea mushrooB 

 beds in growinsr flowers. Ijambert'a 

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Ripley, Mich. — A. M. York is building 

 a new boiler house, with concrete walls 

 sixteen feet high. 



Coldwater, Mich. — D. Voght has torn 

 down one of his old greenhouses, which 

 had been in use since he began business 

 here eighteen years ago, and is replacing 

 it with a new house, 22x90 feet, with a 

 foundation of cement blocks. 



Grand Eapids, Mich. — Freyling court 

 is being paved, and when the improve- 

 ment is completed the Wealthy Avenue 

 Floral Co., whose property has a front- 

 age of 400 feet on the court, will plant 

 shrubs and flowers and otherwise adorn 

 its grounds and make them an ornament 

 to the neighborhood. 



