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The Weekly Florists^ Review^ 



IfAT 5, 1910. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



HOW TO GROW CHIVES. 



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I have had several requests for chive, 

 or cive, as it is sometimes called, and 

 wish to know something of its culture. I 

 should like to have it the year around. 

 Should the roots be placed in the green- 

 house or coldf rame at once, to make good, 

 strong tops, or should they be put in in 

 the fallf After the roots have been set 

 out, will they produce the little onion- 

 like tops continuously, or will one cutting 

 be all that can be obtained? Would a 

 coldframe be suitable for winter culture, 

 when the temperature gets as low as 20 

 degrees below zero! Where could these 

 roots be obtained f C. 8. S. 



Chive or cive is one of the hardiest 

 ot all vegetables and 20 degrees below 

 zero will not harm it in the least. You 

 can place some of the roots either in a 

 frame or cold greenhouse for a winter 

 supply. The leaves can be cut frequently, 

 for as fast as one lot is cut another takes 

 its place. Chives are easuy propagated 

 by division of the root, and increase 

 quite rapidly. 



The plant does not bolt to seed much, 

 as do onions or ballots. It has a neat 

 habit and makes a really pretty edging 

 for a path. in a vegetable garden, entire- 

 ly apart from its ciSinary uses. W. C. 



RENEWING OLD SOIL. 



Last year I put about six inches of 

 fresh horse manure on the solid beds in 

 one of my lettuce houses and kept it well 

 soaked with water all summer. In the 

 fall I found the soil to be in excellent 

 condition and I grew just as good crops 

 on it as I did on new soil. I have read that 

 this plan would work year after year. 

 Now, I want your opinion as to whether 

 as good crops of lettuce can be grown 

 another year, or year after year, on the 

 same soil if treated as I have stated. 

 Or would you advise me to change the 

 soil this yeart B. A. B. 



This system of heavy summer mulch- 

 ing for soil in beds, to be unchanged 

 that season, is a most excellent method 

 of getting it into the best shape that is 

 possible under the circumstances, but soil 

 that has been used in the beds one or 

 more seasons has not the value of fresh, 

 new soil, properly prepared. You may 

 make it quite rich, or you may sterilize 

 it and use lime on it, and try several 

 other schemes, but even then your soil 

 will not be as good as new soil from a 

 new, clean field, provided that this new 

 soil is rich and in good mechanical con- 

 dition when put in. To change crops and 

 grow somethmg else next season would, 

 as a rule, be better than growing the 

 same crop on the same soil. It is not 

 uncommon for good crops to be grown on 

 the same soil for two or more seasons, 

 but many are the failures experienced 

 by 80 doing. As a rule, therefore, it ia 

 somewhat risky to use the soil two sea- 

 sons. 



The greatest sources of trouble in us- 

 ing old soil are the plant diseases and 

 insect pests that accumulate and are kept 

 over in the soil. Another point is the 

 advantage which outside soil has in being 

 open to climatic conditions. ^ Freezing, 

 thawing, sunshine, wind and rain all have 

 some beneficial effects on the soil. 



It is often a question whether or not 



NEPONSET FLOWER POTS 



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1000 100 1000 



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5-inch 1.15 10.96 



100 



214-inch 10.30 



2>«-lnch .. .85 



3-inch 45 



Sis-inch 60 



12.42 

 2.78 

 3.82 

 5.24 



6-inch 1.60 



14.68 



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Vegetable Plants 



Per 100 1000 



Beet Plants |o.20 $1.25 



K KB Plants 40 2.00 



Pepper Plants. Bull Nose, Sweet 



Mountain and Ruby Kin? 40 2.00 



Tomatoes. Small plants. Earliana, 



Early Jewel, Dwarf Stone, Cham- 



pion, Ponderosa. and Matchless 30 2.00 



Tomatoes. Small plants. Stone, 



Paragon , Favorite and Success 20 1 .00 



CabbaK*< Full list of leading varieties, 20c per 



100; $1.00 per 1000; 10,000 and over, 85c per 1000. 

 Lettuce. Grand Rapids, Big Boston, Boston 



Market and Tennis Ball, 20c per 100; $1.00 per 



1000 ; 10,000 and over. 85c per 1000. 



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it will pay to change the soil, but it is 

 never a question whether or not new soil 

 is better than old. H. G. 



DISEASES AND PREVENTION. 



[A paper by A. D. Selby, Botanist, Ohio 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, C, 

 read at the Ashtabula conveDtlon of the Oreen- 

 bouse Vegetable Growers' Association. C3on- 

 tlnued from the Review of April 28.] 



Diseases of Lettuce* 



The diseases of lettuce under glass in- 

 clude two or three leaf diseases, the 

 somewhat general disease known as rot 

 or lettuce drop, and two root troubles; 

 namely, rosette and the root-knots 

 caused by nematodes. 



Anthracnose. — This disease was de- 

 scribed first by the writer in 1896. The 

 fungus, Marsonia perforans, causes lit- 

 tle perforations in the leaves and small 

 lesions in the midrib. It is not general 

 and is probably controlled largely by 

 greenhouse conditions. 



Downy mildew. — This disease is the 

 work of another fungus, Bremia lac- 

 tucsB. When it appears in houses it 

 forms yellow spots on the upper leaf 

 surfaces and appears below as whitened, 

 downy-covered areas. Like the downy 

 mildew of cucumbers, this disease may 

 spread over areas with great rapidity, 

 where conditions favor it. It is wisest 

 to keep water from the foliage where this 

 disease prevails. Sometimes it will be 

 necesiary to gather and bum the dis- 

 eased leaves or plants. The trouble will 

 usually be controlled by not having too 

 high temperatures or too much moisture 

 on the plants. 



New leaf-spot. — What appears to be 

 a new leaf-spot disease of lettuce pre- 

 vailed last spring in the Brooklyn dis- 

 trict. Our Massachusetts friends may 

 tell us that they cannot sell the Grand 

 Bapids variety in the east. However 

 this may be with them, owing to its rot 

 resistance when well handled, Grand 

 Rapids is a standard variety with us. 



Bot or drop.— In this disease the 



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 cabbage, sweet po- 

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 plants at any de- 

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 is substantially con- 

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plants may rot off at the surface of the 

 earth, and the central parts of the plant, 

 especially of hesid lettuce, may become 

 attacked by the rot fungus, Botrytis 

 vulgaris. The fungus, which appears as 

 a whitened covering of epores, etc., on 

 the surface of the diseased parts, survives 

 in the soil and breeds as a cluster fun- 

 gus, sclerotinia, in manure and refuse 

 heaps. It is clear that all refuse should 

 be burned, and soil treatment is about 

 our only method of controlling or pre- 



