The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



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Fbbbuart 25, 1909. 



Vegetable Fordag. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, Feb. 23. — Cucumbers, 75c to 

 $2 doz. ; lettuce, 42l^c to 45c box; rad- 

 ishes, 15c to 40c doz. bunches; mush- 

 rooms, 40c to 50c lb. 



New York, Feb. 22.— Beet tops, 75c 

 to $1 box ; cucumbers, fancy, $2.25 doz. ; 

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

 cumbers, medium, 75c to $1.25 doz.; 

 cucumbers, No. 2, $2.50 to $4.50 box; 

 lettuce, $1.50 to $1.75 strap; mushrooms, 

 30c to 45c lb.; mint; 75c doz. bunches; 

 radishes, $1.50 to $3.50 per 100 bunches; 

 rhubarb, 40c to 60c doz. ; tomatoes, 15c 

 to 25c lb. 



Boston, Feb. 22.— Cucumbers, $5 to 

 $15 box; tomatoes, 40c to 60c lb.; pars- 

 ley, $1.50 to $1.75 box; escarolle, 75c to 

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

 75c to $1 doz.; mint, 50c to 75c doz.; 

 rhubarb, 10c to 12c lb.; bunch beets, 60e 

 to 75c doz.; bunch carrots, 25c to 50c 

 <ioz.; radishes, 75c to $1.25 box; beet 

 greens, 60c to 75c box; mushrooms, $1.50 

 to $2 box; lettuce, 50c to $1 box; dan- 

 <lelion8, $1.50 to $1.75 box. 



SWEET POTATO PLANTS. 



We wish to grow some sweet potato 

 plants for our local trade, here in Ne- 

 braska. Will you kindly advise us as to 

 time of planting, the preparation and 

 care of the hotbed, temperature, when 

 and how to take up the plants; in short, 

 everything in detail necessary to grow 

 good, strong plants? D. F. C. 



8weet potatoes are a tender plant and 

 cannot be set out any earlier than toma- 

 toeu. I believe that in your latitude the 

 last week in May, about Decoration day, 

 is as soon as it would be safe to plant 

 «ach tender plants in the field. If this 

 is correct, then you should plant the 

 tubers in the hotbed about May 1. 



A hotbed for sweet potatoes can be 

 made the same as for other purposes, but 

 I prefer a deep one, a dug-out or pit, 

 made by digging a hole about eighteen 

 inches deep and a trifle larger than the 

 fiize of the frame. This trench we fill 

 with fresh horse manure which has been 

 hauled up previously and turned and 

 well shaken up once or twice. The man- 

 ure is tramped into the pit until it is 

 well filled and well packed. Then the 

 frame is placed on top, and more manure 

 packed all around it to keep it warm 

 around the sides and ends. If the 

 manure is not good the hotbed will be 

 a failure, but I am presuming that the 

 inquirer knows something about hotbeds. 

 If the manure is. burning dry, it needs 

 a light watering, or it will be ruined. 



After placing the frame on the 

 manure, spread about an inch or two of 

 sand on top of the manure, put the sash 

 on and wait to see how it is going to act. 

 In a few days the temperature will run 

 very high, and the potatoes should not be 

 put in until the temperature of the 

 manure falls back to about 90 degrees. 

 To get the temperature, put the ther- 

 mometer well down into the manure. 



When the bed is ready to plant, place 

 the sweet potatoes on the sand as closely 

 as they can be laid without touching each 

 other. Put sand on top of them until 

 they are completely covered over. Then 

 sprinkle the sand and put the sash on 

 again. Ventilate the bed each day, ac- 



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Radiah-FirebaU i^-lb., 16c; lb., .50 



Radlah-Im. SoarletGlolM.Vlb., 20c; lb., .60 



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cording to how bright and warm or 

 windy the weather is, and water when 

 needed to keep the sand moist. Do not 

 open too much. Close them up early in 

 the afternoon, so as to run the bed warm. 



When the plants are up large enough 

 to sell, a sash is lifted off and the plants 

 pulled off by holding the sand and the 

 potato down with one hand and catch- 

 ing hold of the sprouts, low down in 

 the sand, with the other hand. They pull 

 easily, and the old sweet potatoes will 

 keep on producing more such sprouts or 

 plants until late in July, Take the plants 

 to the shed, count them out in bundles 

 of fifty or 100 and roll them up in 

 sphagnum moss and papers, like rooted 

 cuttings. They do not keep well and 

 should be planted out soon. It is best 

 not to pull them until the customers want 

 them. It is well to have the bed come 

 on early enough, as they can easily be 

 held back by giving more ventilation if 

 they are ready a week or so too early. 

 I have seen the first batch pulled and 

 thrown away when entirely too early. 



Where sandy soil is to be had, sweet 

 potatoes pay much better than Irish pota- 

 toes, and the growing of the plants in 

 such a locality is profitable at 50 cents 

 per hundred. In sandy fields it is best 

 not to plow the soil first, but simply to 

 throw up ridges on the uncultivated soil. 

 These ridges for the rows should be three 

 feet apart, and the plants should be set 

 eighteen inches apart in the row and 

 watered immediately. If these ridges are 

 thrown up about eight inches above 

 grade and the trenches between are as 

 far below grade, the ridges will seem 

 sixteen inches high. If the ground is 

 too loose under the ridges, the roots will 

 go down too deep and be inclined to 

 make long and slim, instead of short and 

 fat sweet potatoes. H. G. 



MUSHROOMS EATEN BY INSECTS. 



We are sending you today some mush- 

 rooms that are being eaten by some 

 kind of insect. Will you kindly look 

 them over and tell us some means of de- 

 stroying the pests f We have our mush- 

 room beds under the tomato beds, and as 

 fast as the small mushrooms appear they 

 are attacked by these insects. W. B. C. 



From the sample sent, which was 

 pretty well dried up, I should judge that 

 the damage was done by snails or wood 

 lice, or it might be the work of some 

 beetle, but the cavities are too large to 

 be the work of a small insect, like the 

 mushroom maggot. The damage is prob- 

 ably done at night, and I would suggest 

 that you visit the beds at night with a 



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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Vegetable Plants 



FOR TRANSPLANTING 



CABBAOK-Wakefleld and Succession, $1.50 



per 1000. 

 KGG PLANT - N. Y. Improved and Black 



Beauty, 40c per 100; SS.OO per 1000. 

 PKPPCR-Bull Nose, Ruby KIn«r and Sweet 



Mountain, 40c per 100; $3.00 per 1000. 

 Chinese Giant and Cayenne, 50c per 100. 

 TOMATO-Earliana, Chalk's Jewel and Early 



June Pink, 80c per 100; $2.00 per 1000. 

 Cash with order. 



R. VINCENT, JR., & SONS CO., Whitemarsh, Md, 



light and find out what breed of de- 

 spoilers you have to contend with. Then 

 you may be able to devise some means of 

 eradication. 



From the sample sent it is impossible 

 to tell what insect may be doing the 

 damage, as there are so many that are 

 fond of making a meal from a nice, ten- 

 der mushroom, and under the greenhouse 

 benches is an ideal home for them. 

 Unless they are extremely numerous, 

 they can be kept from doing serious dam- 

 age by setting traps for them. The 

 best thing we know of for this purpose 

 is to cut a potato in halves, hollow out 

 a little on the cut side and set these 

 with the hollow side down in such a way 

 as to allow the insects to get under it. 

 These traps should be scattered pretty 

 liberally where the insects are doing the 

 most damage. They will soon discover 

 them and lodge under them, and by 

 going over the traps every tnorning and 

 destroying the insects found, you ought 

 soon to be able to reduce their numbers, 



Wm. Scott. 



CLEVELAND. 



Roses are scarce in the Cleveland mar- 

 ket, as all good stock moves rapidly 

 without blowing any horn. Bride, Maid 

 and Richmond are coming in of excep- 

 tional quality just now, but the cut is 

 small, and as for Killarney — it is or- 

 dered up days in advance. This is be- 

 cause, perhaps, Killarney never was in 

 better color than this season, and when 

 Killarney has that ideal color that it has 

 when well grown, we do not want a 

 better rose. G. C, 



St. Louis, Mich. — D. Kleinhans has 

 purchased the interest of his brother, 

 Frank, in the greenhouses of Kleinhans 

 Bros. 



