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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



Dbcbmbbb 14, 1911. 



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Vegetable Fordng. 



LETTUCE EOT. 



We would like to ask about lettuce 

 rot, and whether there is any remedy 

 for it. Frequently, after setting out a 

 bed of lettuce, a plant rots here and 

 there. By removing the affected plant 

 at once, and applying air-slaked lime, 

 with a little sulphur in it, on the soil 

 from which the plant was removed, the 

 disease seems to be checked. But when 

 it attacks a bed that is half grown or 

 older, it seems impossible to do any- 

 thing with it, and sometimes we lose 

 half the bed. />. & S. 



Lettuce rot can often be avoided by 

 taking off an inch of the top soil and 

 putting back the same quantity of 

 good, clean, new soil. If the plants 

 are kept watered too much, so that the 

 top soil is always wet, this condition 

 is pretty sure to bring on the disease 

 called lettuce rot. Give plenty of ven- 

 tilation and keep the soil cultivated. 



F. E. 



SNAILS AND MOLES. 



Will you please tell us what we can 

 do to get rid of snails in our green- 

 house soil? They eat the young 

 lettuce plants and do a great deal of 

 damage. We Care troubled also with 

 moles, which rake up the ground and 

 eat the roots. We have smilax, aspara- 

 gus and other plants in a bed on the 

 ground. H- H. 



i■^ The snails can be caught by taking 

 large lettuce leaves and laying them 

 around on the beds. The slugs will eat 

 on them and stay there, as they can 

 hide under them after daylight. They 

 should be collected each morning and 

 more leaves should be laid in place be- 

 fore evening. They work mostly at 

 night, but sometimes on cloudy days. 

 The slugs can be poisoned by hollow- 

 ing out half potatoes, putting a little 

 Paris green inside them and laying 

 them around. 



The moles can be caught easily in 

 the regular mole traps. All supply 

 dealers handle these traps. They have 

 several prongs, which are driven down 

 through the mole if it ventures along 

 the route over which the trap is set. 

 In raising the soil as it goes, it springs 

 the trap. ^- ^^ 



WASHINGTON. 



The Market. 



The warm weather that has pre- 

 vailed here during the last week has 

 not been good for the trade. Stock is 

 more plentiful, especially carnations 

 ani roses. The former are still bring- 

 ing good prices, while the latter are 

 not going so well. Mums are much in 

 evidence, despite the lateness of the 

 season. There is a scarcity of single 

 vidlets. Double violets are going well. 

 Valley is fine. Some beautiful rubrum 

 lilies are on the market. Sweet peas 

 are good and in demand. Poinsettias 

 are ahead of time, so far as the demand 

 goesi They will not be wanted much 

 before the holidays. The first azaleas 

 are being shown, preparatory to the 

 Christmas trade. Mme. Petrick is a 

 favorite variety. Some nice stevia is 

 seen. 



Livingston's Superior Strains of 



Forcing Radishes 



are dcTeloped through careful selection by the best growers of 

 France. 



Seeds are grown from transplanted roots which are crit- 

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Special to the Trade 



We make a specialty of growing aM kinds of 

 Vegetable Plants for the Setd and Plant Trade, 

 including the best varieties of Forcing Toma- 

 toes. Asparagus, Cauliflower, Egg Plants. Pep- 

 pers. Parsley. Lettuce, Cabbage, etc. Special 

 prices made on large orders for spring delivery. 

 Let us know your ^ants. 



We have a fine lot of Tomato Plants, trans- 

 planted and potted: Comet, Lorillard. Bonny 

 Best, Sutton's A-1, Sutton's Abundance and 

 Winter Beauty, also Extra Early Erfurt and 

 Snowball Cauliflower. 



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BEST FBXarCH SEED. 



Radish, Scarlet Globe; Selt-BIanchlng Celery; 

 Lettoce, Improved Big Boston (quality extra), 

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 Spinach, Savoy, Viroflay, Triumph, etc.; Bndlre, 

 Curled and Escarolle. All this has been selected 

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 market gardeners of Paris. Sen d for prices. 

 BEATXLIEIT, 



Woodhaven, Borough of Queens, New Tork. 



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Watch for our Trade Mark stamped 

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Various Notes. 



The Washington Morists' Exchange 

 reports a big business in boxwood. 



Sidney Bayersdorfer and Martin 

 Reukauf were among the visitors to the 

 capital this week. H. C. H. 



Fittsfield, Mass. — Michael Bonan has 

 resigned his position at the greenhouses 

 of F. S. Folwell and expects to take a 

 position .in Florida fof. the winter. 



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Marine City, Micb.— A. W. Bobbel 

 has an especially fine lot of carnations 

 and a big cut for Christmas. 



