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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Deceubeb 3, 1008. 



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Vegetable Fordflg. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Dec. 1. — Cucumbers, 75c to 

 $1.65 doz.; lettuce, 30c to 32y2C box; 

 radishes, 25c to 50c doz. bunches; mush- 

 rooms, 25c to 45c lb. 



Boston, Nov. 30. — Tomatoes, 20c to 

 25c lb.; mushrooms, $2.50 4-lb. box; cu- 

 cumbers, $1.50 to $9 box; radishes, $1.75 

 to $2 box; escarolle, 50c to 75c doz.; 

 lettuce, 75e to $1 doz.; mint, 40e to 

 50c doz. 



New Yoek, Nov. 30.— Cucumbers, 

 fancy, $1.25 to $1.37 doz.; cucumbers, 

 No. 1, $1 doz.; cucumbers, No. 2, $2.50 

 to $4 box; lettuce, $2 to $2.50 strap; 

 mushrooms, large, 40c to 50c lb; mush- 

 rooms, small, 25e to 30c lb.; mint, 40c 

 to 50c doz. bunches; radishes, $3 to $4 

 per 100 bunches; tomatoes, 12c to 20c lb. 



CYANIDE FOR GREEN FLY. 



We are in trouble and want some help. 

 We have a greenhouse, 50x100 feet, in 

 which we grow lettuce and geraniums. 

 The side walls are only about one foot 

 high, so there are between 35,000 and 40,- 

 000 cubic feet of air space. The green 

 louse is destroying our lettuce. We have 

 used cyanide of potash according to your 

 instructions in the Review of October 

 24, 1907, using it the first time Novem- 

 ber 7 with eight jars, then November 9, 

 16 and 21 with nine jars, and again No- 

 vember 25 with twelve jars, but the lice 

 are just as plentiful as they ever were. 

 If we can not get help in a few days the 

 whole crop will be ruined. If we can 

 not save the crop, please, tell us how to 

 rid the house of the pest. They seem to 

 multiply faster than the multiplication 

 table. S- C. 



I think you did not secure the right 

 kind of cyanide. The kind most druggists 

 keep in stock is not what you require for 

 fumigating. There are several different 

 grades for different purposes. The kind 

 needed for greenhouse use is cyanide of 

 potassium (98 per cent), granular. If 

 your druggist does not have this grade 

 in stock, let him send for it and take no 

 Other. The granular is powdered and de- 

 composes much quicker and is more satis- 

 factory than the common lumpy kind, and 

 grades of a lower per cent are not what 

 you want at all. 



I think you have made an error in 

 figuring the cubic feet to fumigate. The 

 average height of your .greenhouse is 

 found by taking the height of the gutter 

 or eave plate from the ground, and to 

 this adding one-half the height from this 

 gutter level to the peak. This average 

 height multiplied by the width and then 

 by the length of the house gives the cubic 

 contents. Getting the average height is 

 where most growers make their errors in 

 using cyanide. 



I think that the number of jars you 

 used first was a great plenty if the house 

 is dry and comparatively tight and the 

 right kind of cyanide is used. 



In using cyanide for fumigating it is 

 important that the plants be dry to pro- 

 tect them, instead of wetting as is com- 

 mon practice in using tobacco products. 

 The acid and water should be mixed 

 about thirty minutes to an hour before 

 wanted for fumigating; if cooled off too 

 much it is too slow and if just prepared 

 it is almost boiling hot and too quick, 



A BED or MUSHROOMS 



Raised from our Spawn, will bear lonK«r and jrleld better than from any otber variety of 

 Spawn. This is proven by facts. Full paraculars and Information how to Bncceed in mashroom 

 raisiag free. We warrant you, if using: our method of growing mushrooms, that all will go well. 



NRKEBY&6UNDESTRUP SEED G0..4273 Milwaukee ATi.,GhicagO 



MUSHBOOM BPBCXAUBTS 



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VEGETABLE SEEDS 



FOR rORCXNG 



"Stokea* Standards" ara always 

 ttaa finest strains. 



Badlsh, PmBsian Globe, ^ lb., 20c: 1 lb.,60c. 

 Radish, Stokes' Scarlet Globe, ^ lb., 20c; 



lib., 60c. 

 LiSttnce, Grand Rapids ForoloK, os., 10c; 



^4 lb., 35c; 1 lb., $1.26. 

 I^ettnce, Stokes' Big Boston, oz., 10c; 



J4lb.,36c; 1 lb., $1.20. 

 Tomato, Sparks' Rarllana, Stokes' 



Speolal No. 10 Strain, packet, 10c; oz., 



aSc; H-lb., $1.10. 

 Tomato, June Fink, packet, 10c; oz., 40c; 



I4 lb., $1.10. 

 Add postage 8c per lb., if wanted by mail. 



Let me estimate on your spring require- 

 ments for vegetable seeds. 



STOKES' SEED STORE 



219 Market St., PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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 BIG MONKT III 



Forcing Asparagus and Rhubarb 



We have 30,000 of 10-year-old Aspcuracus 

 roots for forcing. Also 50,000 Rhubarb roots, 

 3 years old. These roots are now belling fast 

 Inquiries and oiders coming in almost every 

 day. Write us. 



WARREN SHINN. Nuryserman. Woodstown, N. J. 



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dissolving the cyanide almost instantly. 

 Green fly is not a hard insect to get 

 rid of and may be exterminated by using 

 tobacco stems or any of the prepared nic- 

 otine fumigating products advertised in 

 the Review. It is far better to use any 

 fumigating material too weak and in- 

 crease until the right amount is found to 

 kill the insects without injury to the 

 plants, rather than to make it too strong 

 at first and ruin a crop. H^ G. 



INSECTS IN MUSHROOM HOUSE. 



I have a mushroom house 30x50 and 

 ten feet high. I am having a great deal 

 of trouble with insects, to such an extent 

 as to make the present crop a failure. 

 What is the best and surest destroyer, 

 and the quantity needed for my house? 



Under separate cover I send a glass 

 tube containing some of the insects. 

 Please name them. S. S. 



The insects sent are very common 

 enemies of the mushroom and are hard 

 to eradicate. We have found that a 

 poison, such as Paris green, mixed with 

 bran and laid where they have free ac- 

 cess to it, will destroy them in consid- 

 erable number. Traps made from pota- 

 toes may also be employed. Cut the 

 potatoes in half, hollow out part of the 

 inside and lay them .with the flat side 

 down, in such a position that the insects 

 can crawl under. Look the traps over 

 every morning and destroy the insects 

 found, and they will soon be reduced 

 in number to an appreciable extent. 



In the summer time, when you are 

 not using your house to grow mush- 

 rooms in, a good deal could be done 

 in the way of cleaning the insects out by 

 giving the walls a good washing with 



THE cost of labor saved 

 ' in six monttis will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



Tke Skinner Irrigation Co. 



TROY, O. 



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Seeds for Forcing 



I.ITIN08TON'8 TRUE BLTTi: STRAINS 



I.ettiice- Grand Rapids.... ^-Ib., 35c; lb., $1.25 



Radlsb-Flreball Vlb., 16c; lb., .50 



Radlsh-Im. Scarlet Olobe.Vlb., 20c; lb., .60 



Radish— Rosy Gem Vlb.. 15c; lb., .50 



Tomato-L's Globe, oz.. 85c; >4-lb.,$1.10:lb., 4.00 



Tomato-L.'M Beauty, oz.,25c; 't-lb., 50c; lb., 1.75 



If to be mailed add.Sc per lb. for postage. 



LIVINGSTON SEED CO., Bsx 104, Colambus, Ohio 



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IFatch for our Trade Mark stamped 

 on every brick of Lambert's 



Pure Culture Mifthrooni Spawn 



Substitution of cheaper grades is 

 thus easily exposed. Fresh sample 

 brick, with illustrated book, mailed 



^^"^^^ postpaid by manufacturers upon re- 

 ^^ 3*^ ceipt of 40 cents in postage. Address 



Trade Mark. American Spawn Co., St Paul, Minn. 



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COMET TOMATO SEED 



Grown from true stock. Excellent for forcing. 

 50c and $1.00 per pkt. H. M SANDBRSON, 

 111 LINCOLN ST., WALTHAH. MASS. 



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lime and dusting the floors with air- 

 slaked lime. 



One of the insects is the common 

 wood louse. The other I cannot name, 

 but I have often had trouble with it. 

 I have got rid of both by the means 

 above described. William Scott. - 



Pittsburg, Pa. — Lincoln I. Neff, who 

 was adjudged bankrupt last April and 

 subsequently surrendered his property 

 according to the requirements of the 

 law, has now presented his formal peti- 

 tion for discharge, and a notice to that 

 effect has been sent to his creditors. De- 

 cember 7 has been fixed as the date for 

 consideration of the petition. 



SoMERS WORTH, N. H. — A fire at the 

 greenhouses of G. S. Ramsburg, Novem- 

 ber 11, wiped out a large and valuable 

 stock of plants, on which his winter's 

 business depended. He figures the loss of 

 business at between $6,000 and $7,000. 

 The three greenhouses were partly con- 

 sumed, and his barn, containing hay and 

 greenhouse supplies, was totally de- 

 stroyed. The insurance on the burned 

 buildings was only $2,000, the remainder 

 of his insurance being on his house,^ 

 which was undamaged. 



