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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Febbuabt 24, 1910. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VE^TABLE MARKETS. 



CHICAGO, Feb. 22.— Lettuce, 25c to 30c case; 

 radishes. Ific to 35c doz. bunches; mushrooms, 

 15c to 30c lb. 



BOSTON. Feb. 21.— Cucumbers, $4 to $13 box; 

 tomatoes, 30c to 35c lb. ; mint, 50c to 60c doz. ; 

 romalne, SI to $1.15 bos; escaroUe, 50c to $1 

 <loz. ; radishes, $1.75 to $2 box; parsley, $2 to 



f2.25; mushrooms, $1.50 to $2 basket; rhubarb, 

 c to 9c lb.; dandelions, $1.50 to $1.75 box; 

 lettuce, 7oc to $1 box. 



NEW YORK, Feb. 21.— Mushrooms quite 

 plenty and selling slowly at unimproved prices. 

 Beet tops steady. Cucumbers weak. Lettuce 

 scarce, but poor. Mint scarce and firm. Rad- 

 ishes steady. Rhubarb weak. Tomatoes arriving 

 sp.irlnsly. Beet tops, 75c to 90c box; cucum- 

 bers, 75c to $1.50 doz.; lettuce, $1.50 to $2.50 

 strap; mushrooms, 15c to 40c lb.; radishes, $2 

 to $3 hundred bunches; rhubarb, 5Qc to 60c 

 ■doz. bunches; tomatoes, 10c to 25c lb. 



STRAWBERRY FOR FORCING. 



What is the best variety of strawberry 

 for forcing? F, E. 



I have found Marshall to be much the 

 best all-around variety for forcing in 

 ,»It(ssachusetts. Nick Ohmer does well, 

 also Sample, but neither will compare 

 with Marshall in size, color or flavor. I 

 am this year trying Golden Gate, which 

 seems promising. If restricted to one 

 varietv, I would certainly grow Marshall. 



W. N. C. 



DISEASED LETTUCE. 



I am mailing you today a package of 

 tliree lettuce plants and I should like to 

 have you tell met the cause of the disease 

 and the remedy, if there is any. It is 

 spreading over my house fast. There 

 never was any of the disease until last 

 month. The first crop I raised this win- 

 ter on the same ground was fine, with 

 plants weigliing from four to twelve 

 ounces. The samples enclosed are the 

 worst I could find. W. K. S. 



The samples of lettuce are badly at- 

 tacked by a species of fungus. All fun- 

 gous diseases must start from spores, 

 which correspond to the germs of dis- 

 eases of animals. These spores seem to 

 be ever present and waiting for an op- 

 portunity to take hold and spread all 

 over a crop. A fungus is really a plant- 

 like growth, which lives on the leaves of 

 plants instead of in the soil. Conditions 

 which are just right for the plants are 

 not so for the fungus, and it is when the 

 plants do not have the ideal conditions 

 that these spores of fungous diseases 

 germinate into life and rapidly spread 

 over a crop. 



The principal causes of the spread of 

 such diseases are insuflScient ventilation 

 and too much moisture on the foliage 

 and on the surface of the soil. If the 

 plants are packed closely the conditions 

 are usually worse, because the circula- 

 tion of air among them is hindered and 

 they remain dark and wet much of the 

 time, giving the diseases an opportunity 

 to become active. One of the best pre- 

 ventives is plenty of fresh air, not ad- 

 mitting a strong, cold draft, but keeping 

 the temperature of the houses even and at 

 the proper figures. It is necessary, also, 

 to give close attention to watering, being 

 careful not to water too often, but water- 

 ing well when you do water, thoroughly 

 wetting the soil, so it will not need it 

 again for several days. Frequent light 

 waterings keep the surface and the foli- 

 age wet most of the time. Watering 



LBT MB SEND YOU FREB SAMPLES OF 



ONION SEED 



for Germination 

 Test. 



Yellow Straaburar ^ 



Flat Danvers >■ For Sets 



Wliite PortuBal ) 



Yellow Globe Danvera 

 Soutbport Yellow Globe 

 Munmotli Yellow Prlzetaker 

 Soutbport Wbite Globe 



Write for prices, stating quantity wanted. 

 ** BONNY BEST EARLY " TOMATO, is without a peer. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c; ^4 lb., 

 $1.25; lb., $1.00. 



" STOKES' FLORACROFT BARLIANA". TOMATO, is the earUeat Tomato in 

 existence and it's a dandy. Pkt., 10c; oz., 60c; ^4 lb., $1.75; lb., $6.00. 



Let nic estimate on your entire seed wants. 



STOKES' SEED STOR£, 219 Market St., Philadelphia 



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Seeds forthe Market Gardener 



■re our specialty. Quality, our first consideration. We have a very large and complete 

 stock of all kinds of seeds and everything in the line of fruit trees, berry buibes, etc. 

 Our new 112-paKe catalogrue contains true description and no overdrawn illustrations. 

 Our prices are riKht, quality considered. Market Gardeners are requested to write for our 

 Market Qarden wholesale Catalogue, sent free on request. 



GERMAN NURSERIES & SEED HOUSE uSl&.rSm BEATRICE, NEB. 



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EARLY TOMATOES 



In Concrete Plant Protectors 



A tried and proven success. Keep out frost and 

 draw heat. Equal for forcing to the famous bell jars 

 used in France. Field trials show four times the yield, 

 ripening; a month ahead of season, and value increased 

 100 times. No blight or insects. Useful for lettuce, 

 rhubarb, melons, etc. Hold water for irrigation. 

 Fat«nt 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 

 25c. Also, full information about this method Each 

 purchaser of book has privilege to make mold and pro- 

 tectors. Mention this paper and send $1.00 lor 

 book. Money back if not satisfied. 

 J. H. HALEY, Siii Grswer, Munltta, Mlcb 

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should be done in the forenoon and the 

 houses should be ventilated each day, 

 if only a trifle, and kept open as much 

 of the day as possible, considering the 

 temperature. 



Too high a temperature also makes 

 plants weak and soft, and thus an easy 

 prey for disease. 



Your plants, however, look as if they 

 had received good care, except that pos- 

 sibly they had too much water sprinkled 

 over the leaves. Try keeping them drier 

 and keeping the ventilators open more 

 of the time. Pull out the unsalable 

 plants and destroy them. Scrape off the 

 top soil where they were removed. Watch 

 the temperature and keep it even and 

 about the same each day. A night tem- 

 perature of 45 to 50 degrees, with the 

 day temperature 10 to 15 degrees higher 

 when the sun is shining, is about right. 

 On cloudy days the temperature should 

 not be much higher than at night. A 

 mixture of air-slaked lime and sulphur 

 is excellent to use for dusting over the 

 surface of the soil to kill off and keep 

 down the disease, but it is better not to 

 get much on the foliage of plants when 

 they are of good size. II. G. 



ONIONS FROM FIELD-SOWN SEED. 



Kindly inform me whether Prizetaker 

 onion seed, sown directly in the field 

 here, in northern Illinois, would produce 

 good, marketable onions. H. B. 



Yes, good onions for market can be 

 so grown, provided the ground is suita- 

 ble for onion growing. The Prizetaker 

 is similar in all ways to the other Globe 

 sorts, and will usually do well where the 

 soil and conditions of weather would 

 make a good crop of such varieties. 



THE cost of labor saved 

 in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



Tiie Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE— Wakefiokl and Succession, ll.OO per 



1000; $8..">0 per 10,000. 

 PARSLEY— 2oc per 100; $1.25 per 1000. 

 LETTUCE— Hig Boston, Boston Market, 'Grand 



Kiipids, $1 .00 per 1000. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



Marsh 



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There is thought to be a considerable 

 gain in size and in earliness of matu- 

 rity in Prizetaker onions, if the seed is 

 sown in beds early in spring and they 

 are transplanted later. The gain, how- 

 ever, does not always compensate for the 

 extra expense entailed, and in the north 

 the usual custom is to sow the seeds 

 Avhere the crop is to be made. 



The Prizetaker is not as good a keeper 

 as the other Globe varieties and is not 

 as safe stock to plant if the idea is to 

 hold the onions over winter. For fall 

 sales, however, the Prizetaker is a good 

 onion. 



ST. PAUL. 



The Market. 



Valentine's day brought a good trade 

 in violets, there being an ample supply 

 for the immense demand. So far we 

 have had no coal troubles, such as some 

 of the trade have experienced this win- 

 ter, and while we had an abundance of 

 snow and plenty of cold weather, we have 

 not had severe storms and have had lots 

 of sunshine since New Year's. 



Easter stock promises to be of the 



