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The Florists' Review 



April 2, 1914. 



Vegetable Forcing 



TOMATOES DOING POOBLT. 



I am having trouble with my tomato 

 plants in the greenhouse. It is the sec- 

 ond crop this winter, but before setting 

 this time I sterilized the soil. The 

 plants are now about twenty inches 

 high, with flowers and fruit. They are 

 beginning to wilt quite fast, and when 

 I pull them I find them like the sample 

 I am sending. Is there any remedy now, 

 or do you think the disease was in the 

 seed? What would you advise? 



J. F. J. 



Sterilizing the soil should not be any 

 reason for the tomatoes doing poorly, 

 but rather the running of successive 

 crops in the same soil. Some plants will 

 stand this, but tomatoes most decidedly 

 will not. If you used some other crop, 

 such as lettuce or sweet peas, to follow 

 tomatoes, and then ran tomatoes to suc- 

 ceed them, you would hardly have any 

 trouble. I think the soil has been some- 

 what tomato sick, to use a common 

 phrase, and I would strongly advise a 

 rotation of crops. Large market grow- 

 ers who do this rarely have any trouble. 

 I do not think the seed has been at all 

 to blame. C. W. 



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QBEEN APHIS ON LETTUCE. 



What shall I do to get rid of the 

 little green bugs on my lettuce? I 

 have sprayed with cold water, but this 

 does no good. Will an insecticide, such 

 as Lemon Oil, damage the lettuce? 



H. L. S. 



You cannot get rid of green fly on let- 

 tuce by syringing with cold water or 

 with any insecticide. Cold water, to 

 be effective, must be used with force, 

 which is out of the question with let- 

 tuce. Insecticides might kill a large 

 proportion of the pests if carefully ap- 

 plied, but these aphides are hard to 

 reach even with spray materials, par- 

 ticularly when the lettuce has started 

 to head up. Fumigation, therefore, is 

 the best remedy. Most of the large 

 lettuce growers now use hydrocyanic 

 acid gas. This is a deadly gas, and 

 the greatest care is necessary when 

 using it. Formulas for this have fre- 

 quently been given in The Review. 

 Other fumigants, such as evaporated 

 nicotine extracts or one of the to- 

 bacco papers, can be used with per- 

 fect safety. To keep lettuces clean 

 you must fumigate them regularly. Once 

 the plants get badly infested they are, 

 to a large extent, crippled, and two 

 fumigations given one or two nights 

 apart may be necessary to clean them. 



C. W. 



Marblehead, Mass. — The greenhouses 

 of Calvin Titus, James Reynolds and 

 Edward Lef avour are among the town 's 

 show places at present, large stocks 

 of blooming plants ready for the Eas- 

 ter trade attracting many visitors. 



Centralia, HI. — The interest of E. E. 

 Finney in the firm of Finney & Karnes 

 has been purchased by J. C. Cl'oninger. 

 The firm grows some flowers, although 

 vegetables are its chief production. Ac- 

 cording to Mr. Cloniuger, the plant will 

 be moved to his farm and enlarged next 

 summer. 



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