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August 19, 1009. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



67 



Vegetable Forcing. 



INBREEDING OF CUCUMBERS. 



Sensational results from inbreeding of 

 cucumbers under glass were recently 

 made public by Prof. W. J. Green, of the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Nearly 100 growers were present, rep- 

 resenting half a dozen states, and all 

 paid close attention to Prof. Green's 

 modest explanation of the manner in 

 which he has secured results of great 

 value to the greenhouse interests by tak- 

 ing a course directly the opposite to the 

 established method of procedure in mat- 

 ters of selection for improving varieties 

 of vegetables. 



The advice has been to avoid inbreed- 

 ing and to seek crosses with plants of 

 similar variety grown some distance 

 away. This did not give the results that 

 Prof. Green sought, in his efforts to im- 

 prove the variety of White Spine cucum- 

 bers grown in hothouses, so be tried the 

 plan of keeping the product of certain 

 promising vines pure by pollenizing from 

 blossoms on the same vine. This he ac- 

 complished by keeping the blossoms cov- 

 ered before and after artificial polleniz- 

 ing, to avoid a cross from near-by vines 

 of less purity of strain. 



As a result of his experiments, Prof. 

 Green stated that he believes that scarce- 

 ly a variety of cucumber on the market 

 today is pure, but that all are crosses 

 more or less detrimental to quality of 

 fruit. The ' ' bad blood ' ' in the ordinary 

 hothouse cukes shows in the vines pro- 

 ducing fruits badly bloated in the cen- 

 ter, crooked fruits which must be sold 

 as seconds and culls, and cukes almost 

 as round as balls, which are often thrown 

 away. 



Straight cucumbers, small at the stem 

 end, of uniform size the whole length, 

 of a delicate dark green color, wholly 

 ideal in every way, will be the rule and 

 not the exception if Prof. Green succeeds 

 in his experiment, which so far has been 

 a perfect success. 



He first took one vine and was careful 

 to keep the variety pure. Seeds from 

 this vine were planted in a house by it- 

 self, so that bees could not get in with 

 pollen from ordinary vines. The result 

 was twenty-four vines in full fruitage, all 

 producing the perfected variety of cukes. 

 Samples were exhibited at the Cleveland 

 convention of Greenhouse Vegetable 

 Growers, and were looked upon with en- 

 vious eyes by many of the growers, few 

 of whom have been able to grow fall 

 cukes in paying quantities. 



The spring and early summer crop of 

 cucumbers is the life-saver of the aver- 

 age ' * greenhouser " who depends entirely 

 on vegetables for his income. Lettuce 

 and tomatoes just about pay expenses, 

 and a full crop of cukes is absolutely 

 necessary to make the year a profitable 

 one. 



The selling value of this crop is much 

 lessened by the large number of poor 

 fruits produced, especially toward the 

 end of the season. Anything which will 

 improve the quality of the product will 

 prove a little gold mine to growers, and 

 that is why they paid such close atten- 

 tion to Prof. Green 's story of his experi- 

 ments. 



Prof. Green stated informally that he 

 believes many other varieties of green- 

 house vegetables can be gotten back to 

 purer and better strains by judicious 

 inbreeding. Greenhouser. 



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As a forcing Cucumber is one of the largest and most 

 profitable crops of the Market Gardener, it is essential 

 that the very best possible strain should be sown. 

 With this idea in view we have made selections for the 

 past few years from our Rawson's White Spine, which 

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FoNTAXA, Wis. — Mr. Bergstrom, fore- 

 man for Mr. Uhlein, has begun building 

 in Walworth. He will build a green- 

 house and grow flowers for decorative 

 purposes. 



St. Paul, Minn. — Andrew Lauritzen, 

 of 1236 Churchill avenue, was severely 

 bruised and shaken up recently in a run- 

 away accident at Como avenue and Gaul- 

 tier street. His team became frightened, 

 threw him from his seat and dragged him 

 a considerable distance before passersby 

 stopped the horses. 



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