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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



Septbmbeb 8, 1910.. 



Vegetable Forciog. 



NEW CUCUMBER DISEASE. 



Market gardeners throughout Khode 

 Island have suffered losses amounting 

 to many thousands of dollars this season 

 through damage to their cucumber 

 crop by a new disease. The crop has 

 been reduced fully seventy-five per cent 

 and unless something can be found to 

 check the. disease the cucumber is 

 threatened with extinction in Ehode 

 Island. Melons have been affected as 

 well. One large garden farm in Crans- 

 ton is said to have lost particularly 

 heavily. Tho ravages of the pest have 

 become so extensive that plant special- 

 ists from the Department of Agricul- 

 ture at Washington have gone to Provi- 

 dence to study the disease at the re- 

 quest of Dr. H. J. Wheeler, director 

 of the experimental station at the 

 Rhode Island State College at Kings- 

 ton. 



ASPARAGUS AND RHUBARB. 



I should like to ask if I could grow 

 asparagus and rhubarb under the 

 benches in a carnation house, and if 

 the hot water pipes would be in the 

 way, running under the benches. 



W. E. M. 



Asparagus and rhubarb can be grown 

 under carnation benches, but not so 

 satisfactorily as where more heat is at 

 command. The benches with hot water 

 pipes below them would not be suitable 

 for such crops. You could grow both 

 asparagus and rhubarb much better in 

 a dark cellar or shed where a minimum 

 temperature of 60 degrees can be kept 

 up. Rhubarb is better grown in the 

 dark, as the stalks are then of a rich 

 red color. Asparagus is also paler in 

 color and more delicate in flavor when 

 similarly grown. Excellent crops of 

 both vegetables can be had early in 

 the year by making sunken hotbeds, 

 containing twenty-four to thirty inches 

 of warm manure, placing sashes and 

 mats over them to exclude the light. 

 Be sure to allow both vegetables to 

 have one or two good freezings before 

 lifting them, and preserve all the roots 

 possible. 



Mushrooms can be quite successfully 

 grown under carnation benches if there 

 are no heating pipes in the way, if an 

 arrangement is made to throw off the 

 drip and if light and air are excluded 

 as far as possible. C. W. 



Biddeford, Me. — Ground has been 

 broken for the new greenhouse which 

 is to be built by the Strout Co. at its 

 plant on Alfred street. It will be de- 

 voted to bedding plants this winter 

 and tilled with carnations and other 

 choice flowers next summer, and is 30x 

 142 feet. 



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