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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Max 26, 1910. 



DAYTON, OHIO. 



The Market. 



Too good a report cannot be given 

 on the condition of last week's busi- 

 ness. An increasing demand for all 

 varieties of flowers was evident, and 

 the florist was busy with cut flower 

 and pot plant orders. Memorial day 

 orders are coming in rapidly, and no 

 one engaged in the florists' business 

 expects to get much rest until Memo- 

 rial day is a thing of the past. Plants 

 of all varieties are moving rapidly, and 

 it is a certified fact that there will 

 not be nearly enough stock on the mar- 

 ket to supply the demand. The weather, 

 though disagreeable, was just the thing 

 for the peonies, as they will just about 

 hit Memorial day. 



Various Notes. 



Mrs. Elizabeth Young has been in 

 Minneapolis, Minn., for the last ten 

 days, where she was summoned on ac- 

 count of the death of a grandson. 



A. Carey spent Saturday and Sunday 

 in Cincinnati, Ohio. B. A. B. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Cliicago, May 24. — Cucumbers, 25c to 50c doz. ; 

 lettuce, 15c to 20c box; radishes, $1 to fl.25 

 hundred bunches. 



New York, May 23.— Cauliflower, $2 to $2.50 

 dor.; cucumbers, $2 to $4.50 box; mushrooms, 

 ^Oc to $2 4-lb. basket. 



Bostcii, May 23. — Cucumbers, $1.50 to $3 box; 

 lettuce, 75c to $1 box; tomatoes, lOc to 15c 

 lb.; buncb beets, 75c doz. bunches; mushrooms, 

 $1.50 to $2 4 lb. basket. 



EGGPLANT DAMPING OFF. 



What is the cause of eggplant damp- 

 ing off when from one to two inches 

 high? I can find no insects or anything 

 else on the plants. Everything else did 

 .finely in our hotbeds. H. J. E. 



The eggplants are attacked by a 

 fungus which causes the stalks to decay 

 just above the ground, with the result 

 that the plants fall over and die. There 

 is no help for the plants attacked, but 

 the fungus can be kept from spreading 

 by transplanting the plants far enough 

 apart so they are not crowded; then the 

 air and sunlight can get in between 

 them and kill off the fungus by keeping 

 the foliage and the surface ef the-soil 

 dry. ' 



Where plants are overwatered or left 

 wet at night the trouble is pretty sure 

 to follow, especially if the plants are 

 ^'rowded. Give them only enough water 

 to keep them from wilting, and do not 

 water too late in the day. H. G. 



APHIS ON LETTUCE. 



I am sending some lettuce leaves that 

 have a small green insect on them. What 

 is it, and wlmt is the remedy? It does 

 not appear to trouble anything but cab- 

 bage and lettuce. I can keep it down 

 by spraying with the water in which to- 

 bacco stems have been soaked, but this 

 cannot be used on lettuce that is ready 

 for market. E. P. M. 



The insects are the common green-fly 

 or green lice, aphis. The writer does not 

 state whether thev are in the greenhouse 

 or outside. If inside, they are easily 



SAVES 

 BACK ACHE 



The Harriman Plant Setter does 

 away with tedious back-break- 

 ing work in setting out or trans* 

 planting vegetable and_flowei 

 ^plants. It is espec- 

 ially desirable for 

 transplanting young 

 strawberry, tomato, 

 cabbage, sweet po- 

 tato and tobacco 

 plants, as well as 

 potatoes, onions and 

 other tubers. It sets 

 plants at any de- 

 sired depth, weighs 

 less than 5 pounds. 

 is substantially con- 

 structed and easy 

 to operate. A great 

 time and labor saver 

 Delivered by pre- 

 paid express to any 

 point east of Kansas 

 City for $2.26. 



Honey refunded if 

 not as represented. 



For descriptive matter and 

 further information, Address — 



THE HARRIMAN MFG. CO. 



412 £mory Street HARRIMAN, TENIi 



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Vegetable Plants 



Cabbaare. All Head, Succession, Second Early, 

 Early Summer. Flat Dutch. Sure Head, Danish 

 Round and Ball Head, at 20c per 100. $1.00 per 

 1000, 10,000 and over 85c per 1000. 



Kkb Plants. Black Beauty and New York 

 Improved, 40c per loO, $2.00 per 1000. 



Peppers. Bull Nose, Ruby Klntc and Sweet 

 Mountain, 40c per 100, $2.00 per 1000. 



CASH WrrH OBDEB. 



R. Vincent, Jr., & Sow Co.,''"^;-'!'"* 



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kept down by smoking with tobacco 

 steins. A light smoke once or twice a 

 week is better than a heavy one occa- 

 sionally. If they are on plants outside, 

 the only way to get rid of them is to 

 spray with some of the tobacco solutions. 

 Tobacco dust or tobacco stems kept on 

 the ground around the plants will help to 

 keep them down. H. G. 



DISEASES AND PREVENTION. 



[A paper by A. D. Selby, Botanist, Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, O., 

 read at tho Ashtabula convention of the Green- 

 house Vegetable Growers' Association. Con- 

 tinued from the Review of May 19.] 



Cabbage, Cauliflower, Radishes and Tur- 

 nips. 



The cabbage, cauliflower, radish and 

 turnip all belong to the mustard family 

 and all have the common fault of being 

 attacked by about three destructive dis- 

 eases; namely, club-root, black rot and 

 fusarium wilt. 



The black rot is a bacterial disease 

 infesting slime mold. It is easily de- 

 stroyed by greenhouse methods of soil 

 treatment. 



The black-rot is a bacterial disease 

 which survives in the cabbage refuse, as 

 well as in the Boil. 



The fusarium wilt has recently proved 

 destructive in northern Ohio cabbage 

 growing districts. Both it and the black 

 rot are commonly present where cabbage 

 and cauliflower are largely grown. 



SUPERIOR HANGING GASKETS 



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8-inch per dozen, $1.00: perieo.t 7.00 



10-inch perdozen, 1.25; per 100. 8.00 



12-inch perdozen, 1.50; per 100. 10.00 



14-inch perdozen, 2.25; per 100, 17.00 



16-inch perdozen. 3.00; per 100. 22.00 



18-inch perdozen, 5.00; per 100, 36.00 



20^inch perdozen, 8.50; per 100, 65.00 



GRKKN 8HCBT MOSS, $1.00 per bundle. 

 SPHAGNUM MOSS. $1.00 per bale. ^' 



E. G. GILLETt 



Wliolesale Florlat and Manofaottirer 

 of aU norlats* Wire Work. 



Illustrated Catalogue Free. 



131 ■. 8rd Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 



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IIVE ACRES with the 

 Skinner Irrigation will 

 produce as much crops as 

 TEN ACRES without It 



The Skinner Irrigation Co. 



TROY, O. 



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Where these plants are grown for for- 

 cing, care must be taken to avoid plant 

 bed infection, as well as the infection of 

 the greenhouse soil. 



Most of you will appreciate, from the 

 resume just gone over, how large a factor 

 the proper treatment of your greenhouse 

 soils has come to be in controlling the 

 diseases of greenhouse vegetables. With- 

 out effective methods for this soil disin- 

 fection to destroy soil-infesting organ- 

 isms, the present development of the for- 

 cinghouse industry would scarcely seem 

 possible. 



However, while these methods are ef- 

 fective, success is only reached by con- 

 tinued care and close observation, as vvell 

 as by the application of right practice 

 in greenhouse control. 



