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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBBB 7, 1900. 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



HEAD LETTUCE FOR FORCING. 



Kindly tell me of some of the best 

 heading lettuce for forcing. W. A. P. 



Rawson's Hothouse Forcing head let- 

 tuce is considered the best by most of 

 the head lettuce growers. The variety 

 was introduced by W. W. Rawson & Co., 

 of Boston, Mass., but is now sold by all 

 first-class seedsmen. H. G. 



CROPS FOR UNHEATED HOUSES. 



I have two greenhouses, each 12x50, 

 running north and south, in which I 

 have no heat. I can grow one good 

 crop of Grand Rapids lettuce in the fall 

 in these houses, and then, about April 

 1, I transplant Jersey Wakefield cabbage 

 into these houses from flats. Now, what 

 I want to know is whether I can grow 

 a crop of winter head lettuce in these 

 houses between November 25 and April 

 1, by using good mats over the beds in 

 severe weather. 



Please advise me as to the best variety 

 of lettuce to use in this case, and state 

 if there is any other crop I could get 

 in between these dates. The houses re- 

 ferred to are low dig-outs, and well pro- 

 tected from the cold winds. I am located 

 in Ohio. H. D. H. 



It may be possible, but it is hardly 

 probable that you could get a crop from 

 these houses as stated. Much would de- 

 pend upon the weather. 



There is only one way in which you 

 would be likely to be successful, and 

 that would be to make hotbeds. If you 

 have benches, make them deeper and put 

 in ten inches or more of good, fresh 

 horse manure, which has been turned and 

 shaken out two or three times. Then 

 put about three or four inches of good 

 soil on top to transplant your lettuce 

 into. Keep air on the house early and 

 late; the heat from the beds will keep 

 the plants growing and keep them from 

 freezing. 



If you have no benches in the houses, 

 it wiU be just as well to cover the en- 

 tire floor, path and all, with a foot of 

 hotbed and lay a board down the center 

 to walk on. 



Rawson's Hothouse head lettuce is con- 

 sidered the best variety of head lettuce 

 for forcing. The seed can be purchased 

 of any prominent seed company. Grand 

 Bapids leaf lettuce matures more quickly 



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and pays better than head lettuce, if 

 your market will take it. Head lettuce 

 is forced almost exclusively in the east- 

 ern states, while Grand Rapids is the 

 only variety that is much grown farther 

 west. 



Making hotbeds is particular work if 

 they are made to heat well and hold 

 their heat a long time. You may cut 

 two crops from the houses if the plan 

 works well, as it requires only about 

 six weeks to mature a crop if the plants 

 are of good size when transplanted, but 

 the seed should be planted a month be- 

 fore the plants are wanted to transplant. 



H. G. 



CAULIFLOWER IN COLDFRAMES. 



Will you kindly tell me when cauli- 

 flower seed should be planted to winter 

 in coldframes for very early market t 

 Please tell me, also, something about the 

 care of the plants. I am located in 

 southeastern Iowa. S. K. 



I am not positive whether S. K. wishes 

 to have a lot of fine plants to transplant 

 to the fields early in the spring, or 

 whether he wishes to grow them to 

 maturity in the coldframes. Both 

 methods are practiced a little farther 

 south, but are uncommon in the north- 

 ern states, where the winters are so much 

 longer. 



Supposing S. K. wishes to mature the 

 heads in the coldframes, I would say that 

 it is now too late to get the plants to 

 any size in this latitude before severe 

 weather would stop their growth. It 

 takes about six weeks from the date of 

 planting the seed until the plants (which 

 are transplanted as soon as the seed is 

 up) are ready to transplant the second 

 time, to the garden or coldframe or 

 wherever they are to be grown. If seed 

 were planted about September 18, it 

 would be transplanted a week later to 

 flats, and again, about November 1, to 

 the coldframes. That would be too late 

 a date to get much growth this fall before 

 freezing weather, or before the plants 

 become dormant. Of course, much would 

 depend on the weather and the latitude, 

 but for S. K. 's part of th© country 



N« Grower of Vegetables under glass can 

 afford to do without the Wittbold system of 



Waterina 



—because with it a boy can do as much 

 as two men can do in a whole day with 

 the hose— and do it better. 



The system is equally valuable out- 

 doors, and for many other crops besides 

 vegetables— wherever yon need water. 



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THE cost of labor saved 

 in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



Tha Skinner Irrigation Go. 



TROY, O. 



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(Iowa) I would advise getting started t 

 month earlier. 



If he does not wish to transplant tht 

 second time, but expects to leave ther 

 about two and one-half inches apart un 

 til spring, to plant into the open gardei. 

 or field, I would advise waiting unti: 

 October 1 to plant the seed, keeping the 

 frames uncovered as long as possible. 



H. .Gr. 



Mansfield, Mass. — ^Bert Hartwell ha.« 

 finished building a greenhouse 225 feel 

 long on the land he purchased from W 

 L. Barker on the east side of Soutb 

 Main street last spring. He will set cu- 

 cumber plants in it as soon as they arc 

 far enough advanced. Mr. Hartwell will 

 build another house several feet longer ^ 

 at once. When the plant is completed 

 it will be one of the best equipped of 

 the many in town. 



