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The Weekly Florists' Review* 



NOVDMBBB 3, 1919. 



Vegetable Plants 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



Will you kindly tell us the depth of 

 soil necessary for good lettuce grow- 

 ing; also the composition of the soil? 

 M. & J. 



Six inches of soil is the depth gen- 

 erally used for lettuce in greenhouses, 

 although many growers who have solid 

 beds have deeper soil, so that they can 

 use the same soil in the beds for to- 

 matoes or cucumbers in the spring. 

 Six inches is plenty for lettuce, but 

 hardly enough for cukes or tomatoes. 

 Some growers use five or six inches for 

 the lettuce in winter and add two or 

 three inches more of compost early in 

 the spring, when spading up for cukes 

 or tomatoes. 



Lettuce likes a loose soil, with con- 

 siderable sand in it. My soil is too 

 stiff and heavy, so I have to loosen it 

 with sand, using about the same quan- 

 tity of sand as of manure. I usually 

 take three loads of good, clean, fresh 

 garden soil, preferably from new 

 ground, and one load of rotted manure; 

 also some sand. Soil of ordinary loose- 

 ness, however, does not require the 

 sand, and many growers use only one 

 load of manure to four loads of soil. 

 It is better if piled a while before 

 wanted, so as to decay together and 

 thus be better mixed when put into 

 the beds. H. G. 



THBIPS. 



I am sending you a sample of a black 

 fly that is killing my mums, lettuce, 

 lilies and aspidistras. They seem to 

 suck the life right out of everything 

 they get onto. I have used the fumi- 

 gating kind of tobacco, as strong as I 

 thought I could without killing the 

 plants. I have also used hydrocyanic 

 acid gas, syringed with Whale Oil soap 

 and caustic potash soap, and dusted 

 with hellebore, and still they survive. 

 I should be thankful to find some way 

 of getting rid of these pests. The 

 greatest difliculty is to get them off 

 the lettuce, as I could not use any 

 poisonous spray on it. J. H. M. 



The leaves sent for examination had 

 been badly attacked Jsy thrips and some 

 of the pests were still on the leaves. 

 One leaf had also two or three red 

 spiders and a black chrysanthemum 

 aphis on it, but the damage to the 

 plants is undoubtedly from the thrips. 



There are several kinds of thrips, 

 but the kind makes no difference to 

 •^the grower; they are practically the 

 same as to injury to plants and the 

 treatment necessary to keep them down. 

 They can be killed by hydrocyanic acid 

 gas, but the gas frequently injures the 

 plants more than it injures the thrips, 



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as it takes a severe dose to kill the 

 pests. I have never found any other 

 kind of fumigating material that would 

 be of any real value on thrips. 



I have found nicotine extract, diluted 

 about twenty to one and sprayed on 

 every leaf, underneath and on top, with 

 a fine compressed-air sprayer, to be 

 effective and have cleaned up a house 

 thoroughly in this way. 



You can also poison these thrips, but 

 not on the lettuce, as you must not use 

 poison on it or on similar crops. It 

 would be all right on your other plants. 

 To make a poisonous spray for thrips, 

 take five parts brown sugar and one 

 part Paris green, thoroughly mixed. Of 

 this dry mixture, take one ounce for 

 each gallon of water. Use pure, warm 

 water and nothing else in it, and see 

 that the foliage is clean of any pre- 

 vious spraying of any kind before 

 using. It is best to let the liquid stand 

 over night before using, as Paris green 

 is hard to dissolve; it simply settles 

 like sand. In using it, keep it well , 

 shaken up or stirred. When nbV using ; 

 it, keep it well away from animals or 

 children, or even grown people, as it 

 cannot be handled too carefully. On 

 account of the general use of Paris 

 green, few people realize that it is 

 about as deadly as any poison can be. 



In using any new materials, it is 

 important that they be tried by each 

 person on a small number of plants 

 first, as sometimes whole crops are in- 

 jured by some little mistake in prepar- 

 ing the materials the first time. Get 

 acquainted with them before going too 

 far. H. G. 



Please stop my ad for carnations, as 

 I was sold out quick. — J. W. Furst, Day- 

 ton, O. 



Discontinue our Chinese primrose ad, 

 as we are all sold out. — E. J. Ullrich, 

 Tiffin, O. 



Cut out our ads for cinerarias and 

 stevias, as we are completely sold out. — 

 M. S. Wiecking Co., Bluffton, Ind. 



Take out our advertisement of field- 

 grown carnation plants, as we are sold 

 out. — Jacob Doerrer, Columbia, Pa. 



We would like to let you know that the 

 ad in your paper has been doing fine 

 work for us. — Marinus De Witte, Kala- 

 mazoo, Mich. 



We are all sold out of primulas and 

 had to refund the money on orders that 

 came late; one insertion of the little 

 ad did the work. — J. J. Hellenthal, 

 Columbus, O. 



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 have had far more satisfactory results 

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 for the insertions I do not need. — J. J. 

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SITUATION WANTED— By lady, SO years old. 

 six years' experience In greenhouse work, 

 designing and office work; position in Illinois, 

 Indiana or Ohio preferred; reference stflctlr Al. 

 Address No. 8, care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By a ScasdinavUn, 25 

 years of age, single; experienced In roses, 

 carnations, mums and general stock; able to take 

 charge; best of references; state wages, etc.. In 

 first letter Address No. 5, care Florists' Re- 

 view, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— By married man, age 

 36, good experience In carnations, mums, 

 violets, pot plants (some knowledge of ro^es) : 

 good references from former employers; southern 

 states preferred. Address Zeller, R. R. 10, 

 Kaukauna, Wis. 



SITUATION WANTED— By young man, Swede, 

 as assistant gardener on private or commer- 

 cial place; state wages and particulars In first 

 letter; good references; willing and obliging. 

 E. Johanson, care Mrs. Henderson, 322 East 

 125th St., New York, N. t. 



SITUATION WANTED— As rose grower or 

 working foreman In small place with roses 

 and general stock; 4 years' experience In roses 

 in flrst-clsKS places and before that 7 years in 

 general stock: German, single. Address No. 6, 

 care Florists' Review, Chicago. 



SITUATION WANTED— As working foreman by 

 reliable, practically experienced and success- 

 ful propagator and grower at high class cut 

 flowers, pot plants and satisfactory designer; 

 American, single, age 29; total abstainer; best 

 of references; reasonable wages expected. Ad- 

 dress R. Klag, 518 North 10th St., Omaha, 

 Nebraska. 



SITUATION WANTED— By a first-class grower 

 of cut flowers, roses, carnations, chrysanthe- 

 mums, palms, ferns, lilies, bulbs and all green- 

 house plants; 20 years on large private and com- 

 mercial places; can take charge; will take private 

 or commercial place; thoroughly understands busi- 

 ness; state wages. Address Box 38, Florham 

 Park, N. J. 



