March 24, 1010. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



47 



Fine 

 Aster Seed 



Catalogue now roady 



Vick & Hill Co. 



P. 0. Box 613 



ROCHESTER. N. Y. 



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the perianth, and that is a beautiful sil- 

 very white, delicate and pretty. This 

 should prove one of the most valuable 

 of recent novelties. It is somewhat like 

 Empress but has longer stems and is 

 much more upright. I believe that the 

 Hubert Bulb Co. did not raise the va- 

 riety, but that Frank J. Hubert saw it 

 in a Dutch nursery and purchased the 

 whole stock. All the Guernsey bulb mer- 

 chants now catalogue it. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



CHICAGO, March 22.— Cucumbers, |1 to 

 $1.75 doi.; lettuce, 35c to 37 %c box; radishes, 

 25c to 60c dozen bunches. 



BOSTON, March 21.— Cucumbers. $3 to $10 

 box; lettuce, 75c to $1 box; tomatoes, 20c to 

 30c lb.; radishes, $1.50 box; parsley, $1.75 to 

 $2 box; mushrooms, $1.50 to $2 basket; mint, 

 50c to 60c doz.; escarolle, 60c to 75c doz.; 

 romalne, 00c to 75c doz. 



NEW YORK, March 21.— Beet tops steady. 

 Cucumbers weak. Lettuce In good demand. 

 Mushrooms firm. Radishes and rhubarb steady. 

 Beet tops, 75c box; cucumbers, $1 to $1.50 

 doz.; lettuce, $2 to $2.75 strap; mint, 25c to 

 50c dozen bunches; mushrooms, 20c to 45c lb.; 

 radishes, $2 to $3.60 hundred bunches; rhubarb, 

 $4.60 to $5.50 hundred bunches; tomatoes, 10c 

 to 25c lb. 



DISEASED LETTUCE. 



Will you kindly tell me what is the 

 trouble with my lettuce f I fumigate the 

 lettuce house twice a week, feed once a 

 week with liquid cow manure and also 

 with nitrate of soda, give plenty of ven- 

 tilation whenever it is necessary and 

 keep the temperature at 45 degrees at 

 night and 55 degrees during the day. 

 The first four or five crops I grew were 

 all right, but after that this kind of dis- 

 ease appeared. B. B. K. 



Your temperature has been all rigjit, 

 but your fumigating has been overpleirti- 

 f ul. Light doses once a week are usually 

 suflBcient to keep lice from getting 

 started. Too much or too strong fumi- 

 gating will sometimes burn the edges of 

 the leaves. 



You have also been too liberal with 

 feed. If the soil was new and good last 

 fall, you would need but little liquid 

 fertilizer for lettuce. Nitrate of soda, 

 in weak solution, would be a little the 

 best. Of course, if your soil is old and 

 worn out it takes more feed, but the 

 soil should be changed every summer 

 and new, fresh soil put in, which has had 

 some well rotted manure mixed with it. 



At first glance I thought the samples 

 looked as if they had been injured by 

 something, but if they are not aflFected 

 in all parts of the house it would hardly 

 be from injury by fumigating or from 



TUBBROSKS PerlOO 



Mammoth Exceleior Pearl $1.00 



CALADIUMS 



6 to 7 2.00 



7 to 9 3.50 



9 to 12 6.00 



BEGONIAS, Taberona, Single, Rose, Scarlet, Crimflon, 



White, Yellow 3.00 



Doable • 4.00 



GLOXINIAS, Bed, White, Bine 4.00 



PerlOOO 

 $ 9.00 



18.00 

 32.60 

 55.00 



26.00 

 38.00 

 38.00 



GURRIE BROS. CO., Seedsmen and Florists, Milwaukee, Wis. 



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Bridgeman's Seed Warehouse 



. ■■tabUstaed 18S4. BXCKARDS BROS., Prop*. 



Importera and Cbrowars of Hlcli-cnMl* 



SEEDS, BULBS, PLANTS, Etc. 



87 last 19th Street, Telephone 4285 GramBrcy NKW YORK CITY 



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LILIIM GIGANTEUM 



7/9, fine bulbs, $24.00 per case. Ready for 

 delivery from cold storage as desired. 



SKKD8 AND IXORI8TS' 8UPPLIKS 



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D« RUSwUNly CINCINNATI, O. 



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too strong a sprinkling of nitrate of 

 soda. I concluded that the trouble is 

 the common fungous disease, which gives 

 lettuce growers considerable annoyance. 



One of the remedies is plenty of fresh 

 air. Keep a little ventilation on at all 

 times and keep the foliage as dry as pos- 

 sible, to prevent the disease from spread- 

 ing. Water well when you do water, but 

 not again until really needed. Watering 

 frequently or late in the day has the 

 effect of keeping the leaves wet all the 

 time. Bemove all the diseased plants and 

 scrape the top off the soil of the beds 

 where they were, so as to get the dis- 

 ease spores out of the house. 



If you would change the soil, it would 

 probably rid you of the disease, tem- 

 porarily, at least. H. G. 



PLANTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY. 



We should like to know the best way to 

 get our fuchsias in flower for Memorial 

 day, also our heliotropes and geraniums. 

 We have our house 50 degrees at night 

 and 60 degrees in the day time, and are 

 located in Pittsburg. D. & B. 



You do not state what size of plants 

 you have. Geraniums should now go in 

 4-inch pots if nicely established in 3-inch 

 pots. Such a house as you have will suit 

 them well. Discontinue any pinching of 

 the fuchsias after this time. They should 

 be moved into the pots they are to flower 

 in not later than the end of the present 

 month. Use a rather light but rich soil 

 and press this firmly in the pots. Helio- 



VEGETABLE PLANTS 



CABBAGE— Wakefield and Succession, $1.50 per 



1000. 

 PAB8U Y— 25c per 100; $1.25 per 1000. 

 Lf ITUCE— Big Boston, Boston Marltet, Grand 



Rapids, $1.00 per 1000. 

 BKXT PLANTS— $1.25 per 1000. 



CASH WITH ORDER. 



R.VincentJrM&SonsCo.,'''"-" 



Marik 



Gladiolus Bulbs In Mixture 



First size, $15.00 per 1000 ; second size, $10.00 per 

 1000 ; third size, $8.00 per 1000 ; fourth size (good 

 planting stock), |.').00 per 1000. This is one of 

 the finest mixtures ever ottered. 



FRANK BANNING, Kinsman, Ohio 



Orifflnator of America and Nlacara 



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tropes will not require any further pinch- 

 ing after the first week in April and 

 should go into their flowering pots by the 

 middle of that month. They are strong 

 rooting plants and speedily become 

 starved if allowed to become much matted 

 at the root. Use a little nitrate of soda 

 water in May if any show signs of starva- 

 tion. This will color them up. Do not, 

 however, keep on using this, as it pro- 

 motes too rank and soft a growth ; one or 

 two applications should suffice. C. W. 



Sheridan, Wyo. — L. M. Best, who re- 

 cently sold out his interest in the McCook 

 Greenhouse Co., McCook, Neb., has 

 bought land here and will put up a range 

 of greenhouses in the spring. He will 

 grow cut flowers, plants and vegetables 

 under glass. 



THE cost of labor saved 

 * in six months will buy 

 and install a Skinner Sys- 

 tem of Greenhouse Irri- 

 gation. 



The Skinner Irrigation Co. 



TROY, O. 



