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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



May 27, 1909. 



Wednesday evening as well as all other 

 meals : 



"Uooiu without bath, per person, $4.00 per 

 day. 



"Room with bath, one person, $6.00 per day. 



"Room with bath, two in a room, $5.00 each 

 person per day. 



' ' Arrangements may be made with the 

 customs authorities to allow automobiles 

 to enter Canada for the three days' stay 

 without paying the customary license. 



' ' Word has been received that at least 

 one large grass seed dealer in Darmstadt 

 will send a representative to the conven- 

 tion to meet the dealers on this side, os- 

 tensibly, the secretary has been led to 

 believe, to confer on matters connected 

 with this branch of the trade. 



' ' Several notable men connected in 

 various capacities with horticulture have 

 promised to address us, chief among them 

 Prof. Liberty H. Bailey, of Cornell, than 

 whom none is better known. 



"The subjects to be considered are 

 vital and a large attendance is antici- 

 pated, especially with the meeting place 

 so attractive and accessible. It ia there- 

 fore advisable, while the hotel is ample 

 to accommodate us, to secure rooms in 

 advance. ' ' 



The ])rograni of i)apers and discussions 

 is as follows: 



"Tlie National Organization of Seed Analysts, 

 its Purpose and Scope," by the president. Dr. 

 E. H. Jenkins, director of Connecticut Experi- 

 ment Station. 



"Root Crops," by Prof. C. A. Zavltz, repre- 

 senting Ontario Agricultural College, .Uueiph, 

 Ont. 



"Seed Legislation, its Uses and Abuses," by 

 Prof. L. H. I'ammeli, of Iowa State College of 

 Agriculture. 



"A Caniiiaign for Rural Progress," by Prof. 

 Liberty H. Bailey, director of New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell University. 



"The Deterioration of Tjpes of Cabbage," by 

 J. M. Lupton, of Mattituck, L. I., N. Y. 



"Color Photography," illustrated with views 

 from nature, by J. llorace McFariand, of Har- 

 rlsburg. Pa. 



Tuesday evening, 8:45, concert by Clifton 

 Hotel orchestra, followed by informal dancing. 



Wednesday evening, banquet; a few five- 

 minute talks, followed by Mr. McFarlaud's lec- 

 ture on "Color Photography." 



Vegetable Forcing. 



GREENHOUSE VEGETABLES. 



Boston, May 24. — Cucumbers, $2 to |4 box; 

 tomatoes, 25c to 30c lb.; lettuce, $1 to $1.25 

 box. 



New Y'ork, May 24. — Cucumbers, $1 to $3 

 box; mushrooms, 25c to 05c lb.; tomatoes, 10c 

 to 15c lb. 



Chicago, May 25. — Cucumbers, 60c to 90c doz. ; 

 lettuce, 17%c to 20c box; mushrooms, 50c to 

 60c lb.; radishes, 25c to 50c doz. bunchee. 



GARDENING FOR PROnT. 



If you're gardening for prottt. 



And your fortune would increase, 

 I'^ou should sow your farm with onions, 



For they bring a scent apiece. 

 And If you are scent-lmental 



You should plant. In nook and ell, 

 Something you can cauliflower 



And a vegetable as well. 



— Saturday Evening Post. 



CUCUMBERS VERSUS GNATS. 



A House of Cucumbers Ruined. 



Having had an experience similar to 

 that referred to by H. G. in the Eeview 

 of May 6, what I have to say may be of 

 interest to someone. 



I lost a whole houseful of cucumber 

 plants in less than a week, just as they 

 were coming into bearing, and when I 

 examined the roots I found a large num- 

 ber of small worms around the collar of 

 the plants. The blame for this I laid to 

 my using a lot of fresh horse manure for 

 making bottom heat. Either the manure 

 prevented proper drainage and caused the 



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Vegetable Plants 



BBXTS— Crosby, Egyptian and Eclipse, $1.25 

 per 1000. 



CABBAGE— Field-grown, all leading varie- 

 ties, $1.00 per 1000: 10,000 and over, 85c per 1000. 



CKLXRT- White Plume, Golden Self Blanch- 

 icrg and Giant Pascal, $1.25 per 1000. 



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 Beauty, $3.00 per 1000. 



LETTUCE— Big Boston, Boston Market, Ten- 

 nis Ball and Grand Rapids, $1.00 per 1000. 



FEPPERS-Ruby King, Bull Nose. Sweet 

 Mountain and Neapolitan, $3 00 per 1000. 

 Chinese Giant and Cayenne, 50c per 100. 

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soil to become sour, or the worms did it; 

 i am not sure which. Anyhow, it was 

 my first trouble of that sort in a thirty 

 years' experience in growing cucumbers, 

 both for private use and for market, in 

 England and here. 



The best soil I have found to grow 

 cucumbers in is sod cut from a pasture, 

 about three inches thick, stacked up with 

 a lot of half-rotted horse manure mixed 

 with it, and left to rot for six months. 

 You then get all the strength of the 

 manure without its objectionable fea- 

 tures. Fresh manure and fresh cut sod 

 are dangerous to the crop, because of 

 rankness in the manure and insect pests, 

 besides the sourness of soil incidental to 

 decaying vegetation in the sod. 



A Successful Method. 



A successful plan 1 adopted for grow- 

 ing hothouse cucumbers was as follows : 

 I had a long, narrow lean-to house, with 

 a southeastern exposure. This house was 

 about ten feet wide and eight feet high 

 at the back, with a path sunk a foot 

 lower than the outside ground. There was 

 a bench about four feet wide, extending 

 the whole length of the house, wit^ suffi- 

 cient hot water pipe running all around 

 the bench but above it, against Ahich I 

 placed inch boards, forming a box. I 

 placed two inches of drainage material 

 on the bottom, then three or four inches 

 of rough sod and about a bushel of com- 

 post in a pile for each plant to start 

 growth in. As the roots came to the top 

 of the soil, fresh, warm soil was added, 

 about an inch at a time, thus keeping 

 the plants growing and healthy the whole 

 of the time they were fruiting. The 

 piping around the bed against the 

 boards kept the soil nice and warm with- 

 out installing an expensive system of bot- 

 tom heat. 



There was sufficient piping to keep a 

 night temperature of 65 degrees, with a 

 zero temperature outside. I had galvan- 

 ized iron troughs made to fit on the pip- 

 ing, placed these at intervals and filled 

 them with water, adding plenty of sul- 

 phur to keep down red spider. 



While the plants were small, I used 

 the available space between the plants 

 and on shelves on the back wall to propa- 



If you understand tklodern Methods and 

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 is interested in farming or gardening, in the 

 growing of fruit or of flowers, is invited to 

 send for a free copy of our 80-page catalogue 

 and full information in regard to the Home 

 Study Courses in Agriculture, Horticulture, 

 Landscape Gardening and Floric«lture which 

 we offer under Prof. Brooks of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College and Prof. Craig of 

 the Cornell UnijjCrsity. 

 The Home Correspondence School 

 Dept. 60 Springfield, Mass. 



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With the Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Irrigation ONE 

 MAN can do the work 



of FORTY MEN 

 watering with a hose* 



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gate a whole lot of tender bedding 

 plants, and to raise seeds that required 

 a warm temperature. 



I should add that the roof of the house 

 was wired about fourteen inches from 

 the glass, for the plants to run over. 



W. J. G. 



Everett, Mass. — Osgood Bros, have 

 notified the police that two men have 

 been visiting residences in various sec- 

 tions of the city soliciting orders in their 

 name, endeavoring to secure money and 

 defraud the public. 



Bottineau, N. D. — The board of trus- 

 tees of the State School of Forestry an- 

 nounced May 15 that bids would be re- 

 ceived for the construction of a green- 

 house. The time for the reception of bids 

 was to close June 7. 



