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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febkuary 10, 1910. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



CHICAGO, Feb. 8.— Lettuce, 25c to 30c case; 

 radishes, 35c to 5Uc doz. bunches; musbrooms, 

 l.^c to 30c lb. 



BOSTON, Feb. 7.— Tomatoes, 15c to 25c lb.; 

 <'u<jumbors, $3 to $12 box; lettuce, 75c to $1.25 

 l)ox; dandelions, $1.75 to $2 box; mint, 50c to 

 (iOc doz.; parsley, $2 to $2.25 box; musbrooms, 

 ijil to $2 box; rhubarb, 8c to 9c lb.; radishes, 

 $1 to $1.25 box. 



NEW YORK, Feb. 7.— Cucumbers in light sup- 

 ply and fancy quality would command $2. No 

 further change In other descriptions. Mush- 

 rooms moving rather Better, with sales of fancy 

 wliite as high as 45 cents. Practically no let- 

 tuce coming and fancy quality would sell readily. 

 Cucumbers, $1 to $2 doz. ; lettuce, $1.50 to $2.50 

 strap; mint, 60c to 65c doz. bunches; mush- 

 rooms, 20c to 45c lb. ; radishes, $2 to $3 doi. 

 bunches; tomatoes, 10c to 25c lb. 



TEMPERATURE FOR LETTUCE. 



Please state the best night and day 

 temperature for lettuce. J. T. 



Between 45 and 50 degrees at night 

 and 15 to 20 degrees higher on bright, 

 sunny days suits lettuce best. About 10 

 degrees above night temperature is a 

 great plenty for cloudy weather. Ther- 

 mometers must face north and be pro- 

 tected on sides and back by some kind 

 of a box to keep the sun from shining on 

 the frame of the thermometer in order 

 to get accurate temper&ture. H. G. 



WORMS IN LETTUCE. 



I am enclosing a sample of worm that 

 has been causing trouble in one of our 

 benches of lettuce. The worm is of a 

 greenish yellow color and is about an 

 inch and a quarter long and about one- 

 eighth inch in diameter. It seems to 

 eat into the root and then bore right up 

 into the heart, causing the plant to die 

 and look as if it had mildewed off or had 

 the root-rot. The soil is two-year-old sod. 

 If you know of any remedy, besides kill- 

 ing it when found, please inform me. 

 D. H. S. 



The worm is entirely new to me and I 

 am unable to suggest any remedy other 

 than to look over the plants carefully a 

 few times until about all of them are 

 caught. You might send a sample in a 

 small package to the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology of the United States Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. They 

 can, no doubt, give you the name and 

 habits of the pest. H. G. 



SIFTING RADISH SEED. 



I have seen it recommended, when 

 growing radishes, to put the seed through 

 ii sieve with a certain size of mesh. Could 

 you advise me as to what mesli to use 

 ;ind also state where these sieves can be 

 obtained? I want to grade some Lady 

 Roosevelt aster seed also. Can you tell 

 me what mesh this seed should be put 

 through before putting it up for sale? 



J. M. 



A sieve for radish seed, to separate 

 the large, healthy seeds from the small 

 and crippled ones, is used by many green- 

 liouse men who grow radishes under glass. 



The size of tlio mesh should be about 

 tliree-thirty-seconds of an inch, .but the 

 exact size cannot be given, on account of 

 some radish seeds being larger than those 

 of other lots or varieties. A good way 

 to do is to take a small sample of your 

 seed and try it over a piece of wire 

 cloth, using different pieces having dif- 



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 Ohio Tellow Globe, finest we know. Early, 

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BEATRICE, NEB. 



ferent sizes of mesh, until you find just 

 the right mesh for your seed. 



Usually about one-third of the best 

 radish seed is imperfect — small and 

 crooked — and will not make good rad- 

 ishes. Not only that, but some of tliem 

 will not make anything, while others that 

 do succeed are slow in growth and make 

 misshapen, tough and decidedly poor rad- 

 ishes. These cull seeds, if not sorted out, 

 will occupy bench space where good rad- 

 ishes could be grown. They will also 

 make it necessary to delay replanting 

 the house, while they are struggling along 

 for some time after the good ones are 

 pulled and sold. 



It seems a loss to throw away a third 

 or a fourth of the seed after paying 60 

 cents or 70 cents a pound for it, but it is 

 really a way of making considerably 

 more out of the crop. The fine, healthy, 

 perfect seeds that stay in the sieve will 

 all make fine, perfect radishes in the 

 shortest time and all at once, so that 

 they can be pulled clean within a few 

 days after the first one is pulled, thus 

 permitting the replanting of the beds 

 without any delay. Prof. Bailey many 

 years ago recommended sorting the seed 

 by making a sieve out of a piece of sheet 

 brass, with holes punched in it two- 

 twenty-fifths of an inch in diameter. 



As to sifting seeds for sale, I could 

 not say, but I believe that they are never 

 run over a sieve with a large enough 

 mesh to let any seeds fall through. 



H. G. 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



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ST. LOUia 



The Market. 



The trade reports a good business fi'i 

 last week. The last of the big Avedding>. 

 receptions and dinners were worked n|i 

 as Lent begins this week and society wil 

 not need much in the flower line for tlh 

 next six weeks. Among the downtow i 

 florists it is reported tliat tlioy liad •• 

 splendid week in ovor-tho-eounter salt/ 

 and were busy every day with good- size 

 funeral orders. Tlie wholesalers had ■ 

 good sujtply of cvorything in season <'N 

 cept roses, and they are still sr-arec in all 

 varieties, but a full crop is expoctc" 

 during the lenien season. 



Carnations are in plenty, but the prico- 

 are stiff, 2 cents to 4 cents for choice iii 

 small lots. Violets are a glut and they 

 have been selling cheap, as low. as .1il.-">" 

 per thousand. There will be plenty ff" 

 St. Valentine's day. All bulbous stock 

 is selling well, with no glut, as is usual 

 in Knnians and Paper Whites. Tulips 



