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The Weekly Florists* Review. 



OCTOBKB 15, 1908. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



MUSHROOMS AND RHUBARB. , 



I have just erected a greenhouse, 

 25x75, to be used for general stock, and 

 I wish to know if I can grow mushrooms 

 successfully under the west bench and 

 rhubarb under the east bench. The house 

 runs north and south. If so, would you 

 recommend U. S. spawn and when should 

 it be started? H. W. W. 



If there are no heating pipes under 

 the bench where you intend to grow the 

 mushrooms, there is no reason why they 

 could not be grown successfully. But, 

 seeing it is an outside bench you mention 

 as the one you want to use, in all prob- 

 ability the heating pipes will run under 

 it. In this case the drying heat from 

 the pipes would prove too much for 

 mushrooms, as one of the most essential 

 conditions to their successful culture is 

 a moist atmosphere. If the spawn' is 

 fresh, the kind you mention can be relied 

 on to give good results. You may start 

 any time from now on to the beginning 

 of March. 



Ehubarb would also be better under a 

 bench where there are no heating pipes, 

 but it could be grown otherwise by hav- 

 ing boards between the roots and the 

 pipes and keeping the roots as far away 

 from the heat as possible, providing they 

 are kept well watered. 



William Scott. 



TOMATOES AND LETTUCE. 



Can tomatoes and lettuce be grown at 

 a profit in a house 25x100 feet for win- 

 ter trade when we have good demand for 

 them? In other words, will tomatoes 

 bear well in the winter months in a 

 greenhouse and what degree of heat 

 should I keep? Tennessee soil and no 

 zero weather. H. H. C. 



Lettuce and tomatoes require different 

 houses, or a partition in the house, so 

 that they may each have their proper 

 temperature, which is very important. 

 Lettuce requires a night temperature of 

 45 degrees and tomatoes a night tempera- 

 ture of 65 degrees. The temperature in 

 the daytime runs about 15 degrees high- 

 er, providing the weather is bright, but if 

 the weather is cloudy or stormy and 

 dark, the temperature should be kept 

 down accordingly. Many growers make 

 the mistake of trying to make up for the 

 dark weather by putting on a few de- 

 grees more heat, and thereby injure their 

 crops. 



A house 25x100 would be best in one 

 crop only^ either tomatoes or lettuce; 

 either will do well if properly cared for. 

 Tomatoes will pay the best, if well done, 

 but are more difficult to handle and it 

 might be well to try a small number of 

 plants first, before going into it too 

 heavily. Tomatoes in winter sell for 

 20 cents to 40 cents per pound and 

 should average 25 cents to be profitable. 

 The outdoor varieties are not suitable 

 for forcing. Hothouse varieties are 

 smaller and more prolific. Comet is con- 

 sidered the best variety for use in green- 

 houses. One row of plants to a bench, 

 three to four feet wide, is all that should 

 be planted. If the bench is nearly six 

 feet wide two rows may be put in. The 

 plants should be one foot apart and all 

 branches and the points of the leaves 

 where they overlap cut off before they 



A BED or MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will bear lonser and yield better than from any other variety of 

 Spawn. Tbiii Is proven by facts. Full parnculars aud iuformation how to succeed iu mushroom 

 raising free. We warrant you, if usIdk our method of Rrowing muBhroomB, that all will go well. 



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Seeds for Forcing 



LIVINGSTON'S TRUE BLUE STRAINS 



Lettnce- Grand Rapids.... 14-lb., 35c; lb., $1.25 



RadUb-Fireball ^-Ib., ISc; lb., .50 



Radlsh-Im. SoarletGIobe.i^-lb., 20c; lb., .60 



Radish— Rosy Gem ^-Ib.. 15c; lb., .50 



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get large. The single-stem system is 

 best, like a single-stem chrysanthemum. 

 The fruit grows from the main stalk, 

 which should have a cluster on it for 

 every three leaves. H. G. 



LETTUCE THAT WILL NOT HEAD 



Will you please tell me how to get the 

 Big Boston lettuce to head? I have had 

 some trouble getting it to head. I have 

 used barnyard fertilizer. If there is a 

 good commercial fertilizer for lettuce, 

 will you please publish it? P. W. M. 



Not knowing the general conditions and 

 the cultural methods employed, it is im- 

 possible for me to say just why the let- 

 tuce does not head up. It may not be 

 doing well for several reasons. The 

 plants may be diseased, too close together 

 or not the variety you think you have. 

 The seed should be purchased of only 

 reliable seedsmen. The plants should be 

 transplanted twice, the last time about 

 eight inches apart, and if in good, loose 

 soil and carefully watered, they should 

 grow rapidly and be headed up and sold 

 before the tenth week , is gone, after 

 planting the seed. 



If any further trouble is encountered, 

 send more particulars and I will try to 

 give the desired information. 



As to fertilizer, there is nothing better 

 than well rotted barnyard manure, well 

 forked into the soil before planting the 

 crop, but an application of nitrate of 

 soda is beneficial. Dissolve about a 3-inch 

 potful in a barrel of water, and water 

 the plants with it about once a week, in- 

 stead of using pure water on that day. 



H.G. 



THE NEW SEASON 

 IS NOW AT HAND 



Ton can g^et your shar* ot 

 the g^ood biiBlaeas wbioh 

 will soon b« going' on by 

 kaTlng jonr advcrtlse- 

 m«nt appear regnlarly in 



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NOW IS THE TIME TO 



BEGIN ! 



iVE ACRES with the 

 Skinner Irrigation will 

 produce as much crops as 

 TEN ACRES without it. 



The Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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Vegetable Plants 



CABBAGX-Wakefield and Succeseion, 26c 

 per 100; $1.00 per 1000. 



LKTTUCE— Boston Market, Tennis Ball and 

 Grand Rapids, 25c per 100; $1.00 per 1000. 



PARBLKT-StroDgr plants, $1.25 per 1000. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Cultnre Masiiroom Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper grades is 

 thus easily exposed. Fresh sample 

 brick, with illustrated book, mailed 

 postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ceipt of 40 cents in postage. Address 



TradeMark. American Spawn Co., St Paul, Miiuu 



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Geand Rapids, Mich. — The Grand Rap' 

 ids Greenhouse Co. has erected, at its 

 plant on Burton avenue, a fireproof oflSce 

 building and a large show house. N. B. 

 Stover is in charge. 



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