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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



June 9, 1910. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Cliiciijin. .Tiiiu' 7. — ClKiiiutieis, 2of to oOc iloz. ; 

 letturc. l.'ic til 20(' box. 



NfW VcirU. .rune (i.—Cucmiiliors, .$1 to $2 box; 

 muslirooiiis. >f[i to ^-[.TA) 4-Ili. lm!^kt't. 



Bdstuii. .I'.iiie li. — CiK-niiibcrs, !f2 to $4..">0 t)ox; 

 toiimtoei-. Hie to l.V lb.; iiuisliroouis, $1.23 to 

 !|;2.2."j 4 lb. box. 



THE HOSKINS CUKES. 



At Hannibal, O., Iluskins Bros, have 

 four houses, each 20xl8U, devoted to 

 (nn-umbers, from which they have had 

 excellent results this season. The ac- 

 companying illustration is reproduced 

 from a snapshot made in one of their 

 walks and shows the croj) they were 

 jacking ten weeks from sowing the 

 seed. While prices have not been espe- 

 cially high this season, they have had so 

 fine "a yield that it has been an excep- 

 tionally good year with them. 



DISEASED CUCUMBERS. 



I have been trying in vain to find 

 out what is the matter with my cucum- 

 bers. 1 sowed them February 14 and 

 they grew well until they were about 

 seven or eight inches high; then hnn- 

 dreds of them rotted just on top of the 

 ground and died away. We transplant- 

 ed the ones that remained alive and 

 they all grew like weeds. Not one 

 died until lately, after we had picked 

 them over twice, and they bore a re- 

 markably heavy crop, being as healthy 

 looking plants as one is likely to find. 

 In the evenings they still look well, 

 with not a l>lemish to be seen on them, 



monced to die qff, it was from a dif- 

 ferent cause than what is affecting 

 them now. They were evidently at- 

 tacked by the fungus that attacks all 

 young plants in the seed beds, when 

 they are not transplanted soon enough 

 and get too thick and large, so that 

 they are crowded in so tightly that the 

 sunlight and air does not get in be- 

 tween them to keep the foliage dry, 

 especially at night. The necessary pre- 

 cautions are: Avoid leaving them in 

 the seed bed a day longer than is nec- 

 essary; do not give them too much wa- 

 ter, tlius keeping the leaves wet, and 

 do not plant the seed too thickly, or 

 they are liable to get the fungous dis- 

 ease, which rots them off just level 

 with the ground. 



Your plants that are now dying are 

 attacked by the most serious disease 

 which the cucumber grower has to fight. 

 It is called bacterial wilt disease. It 

 is extremely contagious and spreads 

 from one striclcen j)lant to perfectly 

 healthy ones in short order. The dis- 

 ease is a peculiar growth which stops 

 up the tiny water tubes in the stalk 

 of the vine and shuts them up so 

 tightly that no moisture can be carried 

 from the roots up to the leaves, even 

 if the ground is soaked. It can be 

 carried and spread over a house by 

 the growers on their knives, by trim- 

 ming a diseased vine and then going 

 to healthy ones. It is also carried by 

 the insects which chew on the af- 

 fected i)lants and then go to the 

 healthy ones and chew on them a while. 



There is no way of saving the af- 

 fected plants. They should be pulled 

 out as soon as they show the disease, 

 and carefully gathered up and burned. 

 It usually attacks crops in fall and 



Cucumber House of Hoskins Bros., Hannibal, Ohio 



but in tiic morning, as soon as the sun 

 is u]i, tin-y turn <lark green and wither 

 away, and by night they are dead. 

 8onu> of the cucumbers have yellow 

 spots, like a leopard. They tiled away 

 as if a jiest had struck them. In two 

 weeks from the time the trouble start- 

 ed, the jtlants in two houses had all 

 died. 



Our ground is healthy and is full of 

 manure and air-slaked lime. We have 

 treated the jilants with To-bak-ine. 

 Please tell me if anything can be done 

 for them. When we pull out the roots 

 of the dead plants they look just as 

 liealthv as thev possiblv could. 



M. G. 



When Ihe plants were small and corn- 



winter much more seriously than it 

 does in the spring, because the dis- 

 ease is then carried in from the fields. 

 It is as much to be avoided among cu- 

 cumber jilants as exposure to small 

 pox is among people. H. G. 



Greenville, 111.— David II. Zbinden 

 says that lie also, like the Maine florist 

 recently told about in The Review, cele- 

 brated Mothers' day on two successive 

 Sundays and "sold out slick and clean" 

 each time. Mr. Zbinden started busi- 

 ness here in July of last year. Previous 

 to that time, he says, there had been no 

 florist in the town for forty years. He 

 is quite pleased with the trade he has 

 so far obtained. 



With the Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Irrigation ONE 

 MAN can do the work 



of FORTY MEN 

 watering with a hose. 



The Skinner Irrigation Co. 



TROY, O. 



Mention The Review when you write. 



Vegetable Plants 



Cabbasre. All Head, Succession, Second Early, 

 Pearly Summer. Flat Duich, Sure Head. Danish 

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

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



Ebb: Plants. Black Beauty and Now York 

 Improved, 40c per loO, |-2.t0 per 1000. 



Peppers. Bull No^e. Ruby King and Sweet 

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



CASH WITH OBDER. 



R. Vincent, Jr., &Son$Co.r'^d!"'' 



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 ERIE, PA. 



The Market. 



We are enjoying sunshine and pleas- 

 ant weather, after a week of rain. It 

 rained nearly all of Memorial day, mak- 

 ing it hard for pleasure seekers to get 

 out. The florists had got in their work 

 at the cemeteries and were glad of the 

 fact. Trade was heavy. Everything 

 in cut flowers and plants sold readily. 



Various Notes. 



Kric Tiiompson is on the sick list. 



H. Oldham, of St. Marys, Pa., and 

 Miss E. E. Venen, of Conneaut, 0.. 

 were recent visitors in the city. 



A. .1. Baur and family are moving 

 into their new home at 2605 Elmwood 

 avenue. The Baur Floral Co. is remov 

 ing from the old greenhouses to the 

 new, handsome plant on West Twenty- 

 first street and the city limits. Most 

 of the spring stock has been sold out 

 of the old j)lace and the balance is to 

 be transferred. The Messrs. Baur ex- 

 ])ect to be established in the new green 

 houses and office about June 15. 



John Kallenbaoh, foreman at the 

 Baur Floral Co. 's greenhouses, met witii 

 a serious accident last week. He was 

 driving a team with a load of vases 

 to Trinity cemetery, when one of the 

 horses kicked him and crushed his leg 

 above the ankle. The injured limb was 

 operated on at St. Vincent's hospital 

 and three inches of bone was removed 

 Mr. Kallenbach is resting as comfort- 

 ably as can be expected, but will re 

 main at the hospital several months. 



Mr. Wise, of the Erie Floral Co.. 

 will add the old Niemeyer place to his 

 field of labor after June 15. 



. B. P. 



Wilmington, O. — Geo. H. Moores, who 

 was formerly in business here, has re- 

 turned and Will again take charge of 

 his place at 429 West Locust street, 

 which during the last two years has 

 been leased to H. E. Mitting. Mr. Mit- 

 tmg has purchased a place in Indiana, 

 to which he expects to remove soon. 



