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VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, May 10. — Cucumbers, 60c to $1 doz.; 

 lettuce, SI to $2 hamper. 



New York, May 9. — Cucumbers, $2 to $4 box; 

 cauliflower, $2 to |2.60 doc; mushrooms, 50c to 

 11.40 4-lb. basket. 



Boston, May 9. — Cucumbers, $2 to |5 box; 

 lettuce, 80o to $1.25 box; tomatoes, 15c to 20c 

 lb.; bunch t«ets, ?1.25 to fl.50 doz. ; bunch car- 

 rots, 50c to 75c doz.; mushrooms, $1 to $2 box. 



GROWING STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



Can you tell me how to grow straw- 

 berry plants for sale? I have a great 

 many calls for plants and think I will 

 go into that part of the business. What 

 varieties would be best to start withf 

 How should I get the stock and where f 

 How should it" be grown and how can our 

 stock be increased for future years? 

 What varieties should be grown together 

 in order to fertilize? I live in the state 

 of Pennsylvania. B. J. P. 



Strawberries succeed best on well 

 drained land, which will hold moisture 

 longest during summer droughts. They 

 can be grown in almost any soil, from 

 that of a light, sandy nature to one of 

 stiff clay. A rather heavy and retentive 

 loam is preferable. The ground should 

 be liberally manured and deeply plowed. 

 A good time for you to plant will be 

 early in May. As a rule, commercial 

 growers prefer spring to summer or early 

 fall planting. There are many ways of 

 growing the plants. As a general thing 

 the matted row plan is most popular. You 

 can set either a single row of plants eight 

 inches apart and allow three feet between 

 the rows, or plant a double row a foot 

 apart and allow thirty inches between 

 each double row. 



Cultivate regularly until the end of 

 August; then discontinue it. Do not ap- 

 ply any winter mulch until the ground is 

 hard frozen; only give enough of some 

 light material, such as marsh hay, straw 

 or litter, to just cover the plants. Re- 

 move this early in April. If plant pro- 

 duction and not fruit is your aim, the 

 plants can be allowed to make runners 

 freely, merely cutting off the end ones 

 or weakly ones. A fresh planting each 

 spring is necessary to keep up a stock 

 which will give an abundance of runners. 



Each section of the country has some 

 strawberries peculiar to itself, but some 

 varieties succeed in nearly all sections. 

 In your state I would recommend the fol- 

 lowing as specially good: Climax, very 

 early; Success, early; Sample, midseason 

 to late ; Marshall, midseason ; Nic Ohmer, 

 midseason; Commonwealth, late; Stevens' 

 Late Champion, late; Gandy, late. These 

 are all perfect flowering varieties, except 

 Sample, which, being a pistillate sort, 

 should have a perfect variety planted 

 every third or fourth row, in order that 

 its flowers may be properly pollenized. 

 About all nurserymen and many straw- 

 berry specialists can supply plants. 



C. W. 



DISEASES AND PREVENTION. 



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

 Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, O., 

 read at the Ashtabula convention of the Green- 

 bouse Vegetable Growers' AssociatloBi Con- 

 tinued from the Review of May 5.] 



Tomato Diseases. 



Greenhouse tomatoes are attacked by 

 a larger number of diseases than we find 

 in the case of lettuce. Roughly speak- 

 ing, we have three serious diseases of 



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Pepper Plants. Bull Nose. Sweet 



Mountain and Ruby King 40 2.00 



Tomatoes. Small plants. Earliana, 

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Tomatoes. Small plants. Stone, 

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Cabbase. Full list of leading varieties, 20c per 

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



I<ettuce. 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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tomato foliage; namely, leaf -spot, leaf- 

 mold and bacterial blight. We have 

 three or four diseases that attack espe- 

 cially tomato stems. These are the bac- 

 terial blight and the sclerotium disease, 

 which seems to have been imported from 

 the south. In addition, we have two or 

 more root diseases; namely, rosette 

 (rbizoctonia), and nematodes. 



Upon the fruits of the tomato we have 

 the attacks of the bacterial blight, the 

 black-rot and the point-rot. These are 

 all parasitic. We must add to the para- 

 sitic list a disease similar to the Mosaic 

 disease of tobacco, which is apparently 

 caused in both tobacco and tomatoes by 

 an organized ferment which breaks down 

 the leaf -green. 



Leaf-mold. — This is a common trouble 

 on forcing house tomatoes near the close 

 of the season. It is a true disease, how- 

 ever, caused by the mold fungus, Clado- 

 sporium fulvum. The diseased leaves 

 show lighter spots above, while beneath 

 these are covered by the grayish-brown 

 mold fungus. It is profitably controlled 

 by any good fungicide used as a spray. 



Leaf-spot. — The leaf-spot fungus, Sep- 

 toria Lycopersici Speg., is more of an 

 outdoor trouble. In wet seasons, like 

 1909, it attacks the foliage to such an 

 extent that most tomato vines are en- 

 tirely bare of leaves toward the end of 

 the season. In the greenhouse it is rarely 

 a serious trouble, though known to oc- 

 cur. It is successfully controlled by 

 about three thorough sprayings with 

 Bordeaux mixture. The spray, however, 

 may necessitate the wiping off of the 

 fruit before marketing. 



Bacterial blight. — This is a wilt dis- 

 ease, caused by the same bacterium as 

 that causing the potato wilt. Bacillus 

 solanacearum. It attacks not only 

 branches, but at times entire plants. It 

 is less common under glass than in fields. 

 Where it breaks out on eggplant or to- 

 matoes, care should be taken to burn the 

 diseased refuse. 



Sclerotium blight. — This is a wilt-like 

 disease, attacking the stems, and was 

 first discovered in Florida in 1892. The 

 first symptom of sclerotium blight is a 

 wilting of the terminal portion of the 

 plant. The cause of the disease is a 

 fungus which is carried over from year 

 to year by means of small bodies in the 

 stems, which resemble mustard seeds. 

 Sometimes these sclerotia grow together 

 into larger, somewhat irregular masses. 

 The color of the mature sclerotia varies 

 from almost black to mahogany red. Ap- 

 parently the one method of handling, in 

 addition to soil steaming, is to gather 

 and burn all diseased plants. 



Fusarium wilt. — There is a fusarium 

 wilt of tomatoes, which differs ftom the 

 bacterial wilt chiefly in the organism 

 which causes it; namely, a pink mold, 



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Fusarium species. The remedy is tho 

 same as for the other two just mentioned. 



Rhizoctonia. — The rosette fungus on 

 lettuce shows in somewhat rosette de- 

 velopment on tomatoes. It causes the 

 root branches to die off, and the leaves 

 fail to develop fully. It is handled by 

 the soil treatments if these are thor- 

 oughly done. 



Nematodes. — These give similar trou- 

 ble to that on other greenhouse plants, 

 and are controlled by the soil steaming. 



Anthracnose. — Anthracnose fungus 

 (CoUetotrichum phomoides) seems to be 

 more frequent eastward and in West 

 Virginia than with us. It causes small 

 depressed spots in the fruit, and occurs 

 freely outdoors. 



Black rot. — The black rot fungus 

 (Macrosporium solani) sometimes ap- 

 pears as rotted spots in tomatoes. It is 

 less common under glass. Outdoors it 

 seems to attack very ripe fruits, aW^ well 

 as green ones. Where necessary to use 

 sprays, these will be found effective 

 against the troubles just named. 



Point-rot. — We often have outbreaks 

 of point-rot, or Secay at the blossom end 

 of green tomatoes, just when the call 

 for water is loudest in early summer. 



