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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



. Decbmbeb 8, 1910. 



HUDSON, N. T. 



E. W. Allen says we all have our 

 troubles; his is a solid one — nothing 

 but cement everywhere, except where 

 it could be utilized for walks or 

 benches. He is in a quandary owing 

 to a heavy coating of cement, car- 

 ried through the air from works three 

 miles distant in the form of fine dust. 

 It settles and sticks so that nothing 

 will remove it except scraping the 

 glass. 



The matter is now being investi- 

 gated. Certain it is that nothing ex- 

 cepting foliage plants will succeed 

 under such conditions. The sun can- 

 not penetrate. Stock planted in beds 

 will not take water. Chrysanthemums 

 that never before, in an experience of 

 twenty-five years, have been sold for 

 less than $2 per dozen, brought only 

 50 cents this season. Glory of the Pa- 

 cific and Pacific Supreme were white 

 instead of pink. There is a fine lot 

 of cattleyas, which are making new 

 growths, but they are soft. It is worse 

 than ground glass. M. 



IMMORTELLES. 



The customs appraisers have ad- 

 vanced the declared value of a recent 

 importation of immortelles as follows: 



IMMORTELLES. — From Lemoyne Freres, Ton- 

 Ion, exported October 15, 1910; entered at New 

 York. File No. 56957. Invoice No. 14993. Find- 

 ings of McClelland, G. A.: Immortelles, red, 

 white and purple; entered at 3S net, advanced to 

 44 francs, less 5 per cent per 100 bunches. Add 

 cases and packing. ' 



Vegetable Forcing. 



Considerable work has been done by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture dur- 

 ing the last year upon a new spot dis- 

 ease of cauliflower. The cause has been 

 determined, a biological study of the 

 parasite made, and many experiments 

 carried on to determine the conditions 

 under which infection takes place. The 

 efforts which have been made to develop 

 and maintain strains and varieties of the 

 standard commercial vegetables peculiarly 

 adapted for specific purposes have proved 

 decidedly sucessful. The crops ;iow well 

 in hand are lettuce, cauliflower, cabbage, 

 beets and tomatoes. Others will be 

 taken up as rapidly as possible. 



OBEENHOUSE VEOETABLES. 



CHICAGO, December 6. — Cucumbers, |1.10 to 

 11.50 doz. ; lettuce, 20c to 25c case. 



NEW YORK, December 5. — Cucumbers, $1 to 

 $1.25 do*.; lettuce, fl.75 to |2.25 2-box strap; 

 mushrooms, 20c to 40c lb.; radishes, $1.50 to 

 $2.50 hundred bunches; tomatoes, 10c to 20c lb. 



BOSTON. December 5.— Mushrooms, 40c to 60c 

 lb.; cucumbers, $3.50 to $13 box; lettuce, 85c to 

 $1.25 box; tomatoes, 25c lb.; mint, 50c to 6<)c 

 doz.: romaine, 75c to $1 doz.; escarolle, 50c to 

 75c doz. 



TOMATOES AND EOGPLANTS. 



I am sendkig you three tomatoes 

 from my greenhouses. Please tell me 

 what is the matter with them and what 

 to do for them. 



Please tell me what to spray my 

 eggplants with, to keep down the thrips 

 and green fly. I should like, also, to 

 know what to fumigate with, as the 

 smoke from tobacco stems does not 

 seem to get under the big leaves at 

 all. I am also sending you a leaf of 

 my eggplants. The stalks seem to be 

 healthy and strong, but the leaves seem 



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to wilt in spots, and in a day the 

 whole leaf is like wet paper. 



The tomatoes and eggplants are in 

 the same house. I try not to keep 

 them too wet, keeping them a little on 

 the dry side rather than otherwise. I 

 run the house at 60 degrees at night 

 and 70 degrees in the daytime, though 

 sometimes the night temperature goes 

 as low as 56 degrees. M. E. A. 



Your tomatoes have the dry rot or 

 blossom end rot, a disease brought on 

 by having the soil too dry. I have 

 never seen a case of this disease where 

 it would not be entirely stopped with- 

 in two weeks if the plants were kept 

 well watered at the roots. Tomatoes 

 like a rather dry atmosphere and 

 should not be sprayed on the foliage, 

 but they require plenty of water at 

 the roots after they get to setting 

 fruit. 



Your temperature should be around 

 60 degrees at night for either crop and 

 they will do satisfactorily in the same 

 house, although the eggplants will 

 stand more heat and should be sprayed 

 with a strong water pressure, brought 

 up under the foliage occasionally to 

 keep insects* dislodged. If the plants 

 are badly attacked, spray them with a 

 nicotine extract. 



Eggplants are affected by a pecul- 

 iar disease which wilts the leaves, but 

 often the plants will recover and out- 

 grow it. I have never found any rem- 

 edy that seemed of any value for it. 

 Keep the worst leaves picked off and 

 burned. H. G. 



A STAET IN LETTUCE FORCINa. 



I have a new greenhouse, 20x100, 

 running north and south, and I intend 

 to plant it to lettuce. I should like to 

 know which would be the better way to 

 plant it — in bench^ eigUteen inches 

 high, with one f oot \ of^^^aves and six 

 inches of loam, or rij^ht in the ground. 

 Please tell me, also, /what you would 

 think of a bench eight feet wide, with 

 four 1-inch steam pipes, two feet apart, 

 in the bottom, for a gentle bottom heat, 

 and with two feet of leaves and six 

 inches of loam. A. M. 



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beds of soil, made right on the ground 

 the same as outdoors, or on raised 

 benches like cut flowers. I would ad- 

 vise you to put in benches, however, as 

 the crops come to maturity much more 

 quickly on raised benches with pipes 

 underneath. The bottom of the bench 

 should be about eighteen inches from 

 the ground. Use 6-inch lumber for the 

 sides. 



If you use 1-inch pipe for steam 

 heating, you will need about ten of 

 them in the house. I would put an 

 8-foot bench in the center of the house, 

 with four pipes under it, and would put 

 4-foot benches along each wall, with 

 three pipes under each. You can hang 

 the pipes with wire hangers to nails 

 driven into the cross pieces of the 

 bench. They will give bottom heat and 

 heat the house also. 



If you had the pipes buried in leaves 

 they would not heat the house; such a 

 plan would not be advisable, at any 

 rate. One or two pipes are sometimes 

 buried deep under the beds on solid 

 ground, but they should be small and 

 not turned on much of the time, or 

 they dry the soil and get it too hot. 



Never mind the leaves; use good, 

 rich, new soil that is soft and light. 



H. G. 



McKlnney, Tex. — E. W. Kirkpatrick 

 acted as .judge in the flower depart- 

 ment of the Southeast Texas Pair, at 

 Beaumont. 



Tbompsonville, Conn. — The Brainard 

 Floral & Nursery Co. announces the re- 

 moval of its office and salesroom from 

 the Garden street plant to its large new 

 establishment on Maple street. Three 

 modern greenhouses were erected last 

 summer, one planted to mums, another 

 to carnations and the third to palms, 

 ferns, araucarias, etc. 



