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The Florists' Review 



Mauch 5, 1»14. 



sprouts, the better and more quickly the 

 potatoes set. 



I believe that some such plan as I 

 have described would work in any cli- 

 mate, in a room that is only moderately 

 warm. The potatoes could be piled 

 under a bench in a light house, with 

 bags thrown over them, or could be 

 placed on a bench in a shaded house 

 and covered with bags, without any 

 soil, and strong, healthy plants would 

 be produced. A. M. Gardner. 



BEST EARLY OUTDOOR TOMATO. 



In The Review of February 19, page 62, 

 do you mean that Sparks ' Earliana toma- 

 to is not good in the garden or the green- 

 house? I make a specialty of early out- 

 door tomatoes, and I want the best va- 

 riety there is. I have used Earliana 

 for four years, getting into the Cham- 

 paign market two weeks ahead of the 

 university gardens. What do you con- 

 sider the best fertilizer to hasten the 

 ripening of the tomato? I used sul- 

 phate of potash last year and sold near- 

 ly $700 worth of fruit from one acre, 

 and I want to beat that. H. M. M. 



Neither for forcing nor for outdoor 

 culture do I consider Sparks' Earliana 

 tomato nearly equal to Chalk's Early 

 Jewel. If you can get a really good 

 strain of the latter, you will find it 

 ripens just as early as Earliana and 

 that it has the additional advantage of 

 being much smoother. Sulphate of pot- 

 ash or some other potash fertilizer, ap- 

 plied after the first two bunches of 

 fruit are set, will assist the develop- 

 ment of the fruits and make them ripen 

 earlier than when strong nitrogenous 

 manures are used ostensibly for the 

 same purpose. C. W. 



DISEASED CUCUMBER VDfES. 



Under separate cover you will find 

 several specimens of my cucumber vines, 

 with which I am having serious trouble 

 in the greenhouse. The vines grow well 

 until they are of bearing age and the 

 trouble starts about two feet from the 

 soil. Can you tell me why the vines 

 do not have better roots? I am also 

 troubled by wilting of the vines and 

 in some parts of the house they are 

 ■covered with mildew. I keep the tem- 

 perature at 65 degrees in the daytime 

 and 62 degrees at night. J. J. S. 



Cucumbers for a winter crop must 

 have careful attention as to temperature 

 and ventilation. Fluctuations in tem- 

 perature and cold draughts will speedily 

 give mildew a foothold. Use sulphur on 

 the pipes as a remedy, but you cannot 

 keep a dry atmosphere, as it would 

 quickly breed red spider, which is harder 

 to combat than the mildew. 



The other diseased condition of your 

 vines is known as canker and it is diffi- 

 cult to determine the cause of this with- 

 out knowing something about your soil 

 and other conditions. Have you used 

 compost in which cucumbers were simi- 

 larly affected previously? Did you 

 sterilize the soil? Sterilization is the 

 surest preventive of this and other such 

 troubles, and it will pay you to adopt it. 

 If you cannot do this, endeavor to give 

 your plants new soil from sod land. For 

 cankered plants there is no cure; pull 

 them up and burn them. It is also diffi- 

 cult to get much of a crop from plants 

 which have had an attack of mildew. 



C.W. 



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