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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



JANUABY 27, 1910. 



Stokes' Tomato Introductions ^ ilK 



My New FLORACROFT EARLIANA TOMATO 



U the earliest Tomato in ezittence* It smooth, tolid, prolific and with all the good points of the finest Earliana blood. 

 Pkt.,10c; YzOZn^^i oz.,60cj X lb., $1.75? lb., $6.00. 



STOKES' BONNY BEST EARLY TOMATO 



is the finest quality and handsomest Tomato known. It is a few days later than Earliana, but is a winner everywhere. 

 Strong vine and foliage. Very vigorous. No rot, no crack, no core. Pkt., 10c ; oz*t 40c ; }i lb., $1.25 } lb., $4.00. 



STOKES' JUNE PINK 



The best very early Pink. I have a very choice strain. Oz., 30c ; % lb., 85c; lb., $3.00. 



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EARLY TOMATOES 



IN CONCRKTK PLANT PROTBCTORS 

 Cost 2o Sach— M ake Them Tourself 



A tried and proven success. Keep out frost and draw 

 heat. Equal for forcing to the famous bell jars used ni 

 France. Field Uials show four times the yield, npemntr 

 a month ahead of season, and value increased 100 times. 

 No blight or insects. Useful for lettuce, rhubarb, mel- 

 ons, etc. Hold water for irrigation, fatent just 

 issued on protectors, and line wire opens or closes 100 

 instantly. Illustrated treatise tells how to make them 

 quickly at 2c each, how to make molds at 'i'ic. Also, 

 full information about this method. Each purchaser of 

 book has privilege to make mold and protectors. Men- 

 tion this paper and send 91 .CO for book. Money 

 back if not satisfied. 



J. H. HAUCT, Sii< Grower. Munitb, BSicta. 

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by small stalks and poor shaped or small 

 fruit. Of course each one helps the other, 

 but it is often the case that we see a lot 

 of fine looking cucumber or tomato plants 

 with little fruit on them, and they fail 

 to produce half a crop. Although plenty 

 of nitrogen helped them to put up a 

 good front, lack of the other chemicals 

 caused failure to produce the crop in pro- 

 portion. H. G. 



BUILDING A MUSHROOM HOUSE. 



I have had excellent success in grow- 

 ing mushrooms under greenhouse benches, 

 but now wish to build a house exclusively 

 for mushrooms. Any information, there- 

 fore, about the best and cheapest way of 

 constructing a mushroom house will be 

 greatly appreciated. J. D. 



A cellar or dugout- is much better for 

 mushrooms than a house above ground, 

 because it can be kept cool later in the 

 spring than a house above ground, and 

 thus the mushrooms can be kept bearing 

 much longer and will be of good quality. 

 Most mushrooms are, however, grown in 

 houses above ground. There are many 

 styles of mushroom houses, but the most 

 common are built of lumber, like ranges 

 of greenhouses. 



The houses are narrow, with a wide 

 aisle down the center, to allow the use of 

 wheelbarrows, and with benches on both 

 sides. Beds are also made under these 

 benches, and in some cases, where the 

 houses are high enough, another bench is 

 made above the regular one. A house 

 twelve feet wide answers the purpose 

 well. "Where several houses are built to- 

 gether, the regular greenhouse gutter 

 should be used between them, just as in 

 a range of short-span, connected houses. 



Mushroom houses must be built warm. 

 The walls are usually built by setting 

 rows of fence posts and boarding them up 

 on both sides. The rafters consist of 

 2x4 scantlings, on which matched lumber 





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is laid, with prepared paper roofing 

 nailed on top of the lumber. The under 

 side of the roof is sealed up with matched 

 lumber, also, like the upper side. The 

 matched boards are also used on the 

 inside of the walls, but on the outside of 

 the walls cheaper lumber is used and then 

 banked up to the eaves with manure or 

 soil. Cupolas are placed along the peaks 

 for ventilating the houses. A door wide 

 enough for a large wheelbarrow is placed 

 in each end. 



I believe that the common practice 

 could be much improved on by using pipe 

 posts, an inch and a half in diameter, for 

 supporting the eave plates and gutters, 

 setting the posts two and one-half feet 

 deep, filling the holes with concrete, and 

 then making a concrete wall from the 

 ground to the eaves. The wall would be 

 about four or five inches thick and would 

 be banked up with soil in the ordinary 

 way. This would be a permanent wall, 

 which would never need repairs and 

 would cost little or no more than a 

 wooden wall. Such houses could be easily 

 turned into greenhouses, if desired, at 

 any time in the future. If on high and 

 dry ground, the floor of the house could 

 be made below the level of the ground 



by scooping out the soil first. Then the 

 walls, not being so high outside, would 

 not require so much banking up and there 

 would be plenty of soil to do it with. It 

 is important, however, that the floor of 

 a mushroom house be dry. Mushrooms 

 will not do well in a wet place. H. G. 



Lee, Mass. — John Connors, superin- 

 tendent of the greenhouses on the West- 

 inghouse estate, is seriously ill vfith 

 pneumonia, at his home on Summer 

 street. 



Champaign, III. — L. S. Spencer an- 

 nounces the removal of his wholesale cut 

 flower growing business from Pesotum 

 and Tolono to R. R. 4, Champaign, corner 

 ot McKinley avenue and the Bloomington 

 road. He will have better facilities in 

 his new location and expects to provide 

 for his growing business. 



Lenox, Mass. — A. H. Wingett ex- 

 hibited his new carnation. Lady Algy, be- 

 fore the Lenox Horticultural Society, 

 January 15, and received a first-class cer- 

 tificate. It is pure salmon pink in color, 

 a sport of Beacon, and Edwin Jenkins 

 says it is one of the most promising new 

 varieties in sight. 



