SmTBMBBB tt*, 1909. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



49 



flduiriea for «arnation stock for the 

 ' J, sane asyluaa greenhouses. 



A. Axtell has bought out the business 

 ,,t Eugene Zimmer, in Vancouver, Wash., 

 wL'ere Mr. Axtell will enlarge and con- 

 jftK* » general retail business. 



E. R. C. 



SAN FRANCISCO. 



The Market 



! lio liower situation in the local mar- 

 (, I is still strained. It will be two 

 ^v! I'ks at least before there will be a suf- 

 ri. H'ncy of first-class cut material to sup- 



• !, the daily demand. "While the cut of 

 -niations is daily getting heavier, there 

 - yet no showing being made by the 



:;i;iiiy rose growers, and fancy or even 

 (irst quality stock is not seen in any of 

 U\i- storea. Violets, owing to the sudden 

 lijinge in the weather from an excess 

 ,t heat to quite the reverse, are rather 

 plentiful and the dealers are selling them 

 it 75 cents per dozen bunches, wholesale. 

 riiev are not yet as good as they will be, 

 Suit in a couple of weeks, if the weather 

 rtinains cool, we may expect an ample 

 'iipply of them. 



Sweet peas are practically over for the 

 soason. A few short-stemmed ones are 

 ^.ecn, but they are only suitable for 

 funeral work. The best of the gladioli 

 tre gathered and, now that their time is 

 tbout finished, it is safe to say that they 

 have proven to be one of the best money- 

 makers of the entire lot of outside flow- 

 f'r.«. iJahlias, whUe not in as good de- 

 :iiuml,have moved fairly well, especially 

 •iiiring the last few weeks, when outsiae 

 Mtoi'k has been so scarce. Coreopsis, gail- 

 lanlias, stocks and other hardy material 

 muve well and are of better quality at 

 present than at any time this season. 

 Amaryllis are out of market again and 

 ill the varieties of Japanese lilies are 

 netting in short supply, although the de- 

 aiund continues good. They cost the 

 s'tores from $1 to $2 per dozen. 



Mums seem to be rather backward this 

 season and, the aster crop now being 

 finished, there is a break in the available 

 supply of hardy stock that is not being 

 well filled. Some good mums that are 

 .^rown under glass are offered, but they 

 <" not fill in for cheap stock. 



Business is fair, with every indica- 

 'lun of a large increase in the near 

 : iture. 



Various Notes. 



-Martin K«ukauf, representing H. 

 ;<ayersdorfer & Co., of Philadelphia, is in 

 ' 'vvn, at the Hotel Stewart. 



The Julius Eoehrs Co., of Eutherford, 

 V J., has brought suit for $1,000 for 

 'chid plants sold and delivered to Mrs. 



B. Coryel, of Fair Oaks, Cal. 



•'. Symacopulos, of Oakland, has recov- 



0(1 from a severe attack of pneumonia, 

 ■ r which he spent several weeks in a 

 "al hospital. 



The Fitchburg Floral Co., located on 

 meteenth and San Pablo avenue, Oak- 

 id, has gone out of business. 



"'. C. Morse & Co., of San Francisco; 



Gill, of West Berkeley, and J. Seul- 



^'frger, of Oakland, were among the ex- 



■\ibitor8 of plants at the California State 



• xposition, in Idora park, Oakland, last 

 •■pek. 



-Ul the local dealers have received 

 'H:ir supplies of European bulbs. There 

 " ^aid to be a fair demand for them. 



G. 



Secretary S. W. Severance has issued 

 the yearbook of the Greenhouse Vegetable 

 Growers ' and Market Gardeners ' Associa- 

 tion of America, forty-eight pages, con- 

 taining a record of the proceedings of the 

 first annual convention of the organiza- 

 tion at Cleveland, October 30 and 31, 

 1908. 



VEGETABLE FORCERS' PROGRAM. 



The second annual meeting of the 

 Greenhouse Vegetable Growers' Associa- 

 tion will be held at Ashtabula, O., October 

 12 to 14. A trade display is being worked 

 up and the following program has been 

 announced : 



TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12. 10 A. M. 



Call to order — E. A. Dunbar, president. 



Welcome address — H. D. Cook, mayor of 

 Ashtabula. 



Response — Richard Hittlnger, Belmont, Mass. 



President's annual address — B. A. Dimbar, 

 Ashtabula, Ohio. 



Report of secretary. 



Report of treasurer. 



Report of state vice-president. 



Discussion. 



1:30 p. m.- — General Topics: "New Crops for 

 Forcing." 



"Cauliflower"^Tliomas L. Brown, Soutli Man- 

 chester, Conn. 



"Rhubarb" — W. R. Lazenby, Columbus, Ohio. 



"Fall Tomatoes" — M. M. Mlesse, Lancaster, 

 Ohio. 



"Chrysanthemums" — B. II. Thome, Wooster, 

 Ohio. 



"Radishes"— C. W. Wald, New Carlisle, Ohio. 



All who intend to be present are asked to 

 be prepared to give their experience on this 

 vital topic. Experiments in the forcing of 

 celery, asparagus, muskmelons or any flower 

 that goes well with a vegetable crop should 

 be reported. 



Paper: "Importance of Uniformity in Varietal 

 Character in Vegetable Seeds" — W. W. Tracy, 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Discussion. 



7:30 p. m.— Address— R. L. Watts, State Col- 

 lege. Pennsylvania. 



Picture Talk: "From Farm to Family Fresh" 

 — H. B. FulIiTton, Huntington, L. I., illustrated 

 by lantern slides. 



WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 9 A. M. 



Appointment of nominating committee. 



Paper: "Local Organizations" — Franklin Ue- 

 Klelne. Grand Rapids, Mich. 



Paper: "Diseases of Greenhouse Vegetables 

 and Their Prevention" — A. D. Selby, Wooster, 

 Ohio. 



1:30 p. m. — Visit to greenhouse plants. 



6 p. m. — Banquet. 



THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 9 A. M. 



Report of Committee on Uniform Packages. 



Report of Committee on Publicity. 



Paper: "Celery Culture" — B. H. Thome, 

 Wooster, Ohio. 



Paper: "Some Pointers for Market Gnrden- 

 ers"— J. S. Brigham, Ohio. 



Discussion. 



1:30 p. ni. — Report of Committee on Crop and 

 Market Conditions. 



Report of Committee on Nominations. 



FORCING ASPARAGUS. 



I have one house, 12x50, two-thirds 

 span, running east and west, which I use 

 as a propagating house. The north 

 bench I raised to a height of four and 

 one-half feet and made a solid bed un- 

 der it. I want to use it for forcing 

 asparagus. Can I do this? If so, when 

 should the roots be lifted? I have a lot 

 of two-year-old plants in the field. I 

 use hot water and the pipes on this side 

 are on the wall. I am located in Ten- 

 nessee. J. F. C. 



Your proposed place for a forcing bed 

 for asparagus is all right, as I under- 

 stand it to be a solid bed underneath a 

 raised bench. 



The sides of the bed should be about 

 a foot high, with about two or three 

 inches of good, soft soil in the bottom. 

 Set the old, transplanted root clumps on 

 this soft soil, packing them very closely 



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together, but working fine soil in between 

 them thoroughly before placing each row. 

 After the bed is filled, soak it thor- 

 oughly and fill up where it settles, also 

 putting soil over the top where the 

 crowns stick up above the surface. 



Your roots are not old enough. Use 

 only fine, old clumps, or they will not 

 pay. Perhaps you can buy an old bed, 

 five or six years old. Do not use beds 

 that are less than three years old, and 

 only the best plants then. Leave them 

 in the field until late in the fall. In 

 your warmer latitude, perhaps you can 

 dig them from the field any time in win- 

 ter you may want to force them, but in 

 Illinois we have to dig them before the 

 ground freezes much and store them in 

 sheds or cold cellars until wanted. 



As much soil is left on the clumps as 

 will usually cling to them, but they are 

 packed tightly together, as they make 

 no root growth in the forcing bed. Give 

 them a cool temperature for a few days. 

 Then, when some sign of growth appears, 

 run the temperature up to about 65 de- 

 grees at night; 55 or 60 degrees will do, 

 but the growth will be a little slower. 

 Liberal waterings are necessary. They 

 will not yield a great while; therefore 

 more plants should bo available, to re- 

 plant the bed as soon as spent. H. G. 



Cut out our geranium advertisement; 

 it has done the business. — Hopkins & 

 Hopkins, Chepachet, R. I. 



