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The Weekly FIoristsVReview. 



Febsuaby 2, 1911. 



MONTGOMERY COUNTY COAL Co: 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



VEQETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicaco, January 31.— Cucumbers, $1.25 to $1.75 

 doz.; lettuce, 30c to 3Sc case; mushrooms, 20c 

 lb. 



Boston, January 30.— Tomatoes, 35c to 45c lb. ; 

 cucumbers, |5 to $14 box; lettuce, 75c to $1.25 

 box; mushrooms, 35c to 50c lb.; mint, $1 to $1.10 

 doe.; radishes, 45c to 50c dozen bunches; parsley, 

 $1.50 to $1.75 box; rhubarb, 10c to 12c lb.;, 

 bunch beets. $1.50 to $2 dozen bunches; bunch 

 carrots, 75c to $1 dozen bunches; spinach, $1.50 

 box; dandelions, $2 to $2.25 box; romalne, $1 to 

 $1.25 doz. 



New York, January 30. — Cucumbers, firm for 

 fancy, but lower grades dull. Lettuce has limited 

 demand. Mint, scarce. Mushrooms In light re- 

 ceipt and firm. Radishes and rhubarb, steady. 

 Tomatoes, firm for fancy. Cucumbers, $1 to $2 

 doe.; lettuce, 75c to $1.25 strap; mint, $1 to $1.50 

 dozen bunches; mushrooms, 60c to $1.40 4-lb. 

 basket; radishes, $3 to $4 hundred bunches; rhu- 

 barb 50c to 65c dozen bunches; tomatoes, 10c to 

 35c lb. 



VEGETABLES INDOORS AND OUT. 



Prof. L. C. Corbett, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, 

 was the lecturer January 27 in the 

 course given by the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society at Horticultural hall. 

 He talked on "New England Market 

 Gardeners and Their Competitors," and 

 said in part: 



"Lettuce is the great forcing crop of 

 America, and Boston the recognized 

 authority of the crop. While this is all 

 true, the important fact is that the Bos- 

 ton gardeners had adopted as their forc- 

 ing sort the variety which thrives best 

 in the open. Perhaps this is the result 

 of chance, but I dare say that the evolu- 

 tion of Big Boston or Hettinger's Bel- 

 mont Forcing would, lead along a line 

 of ancestors that came first from the 

 open into frames and hotbed and finally 

 into the forcing house. To begin with, 

 it was the best and toughest outdoor let- 

 tuce. It is not a child of the green- 

 house except by adoption. In growing 

 it in the field the southern growers are 

 only taking advantage of the sorts and 

 markets which you have for years been 

 preparing for them. As long as there 

 was no field crop in Florida and no 

 frame crop about Wilmington, New- 

 borne and Norfolk, this dual type let- 

 tuce was satisfactory. It served the 

 gardener better than two sorts, one dis- 

 tinctly a forcing variety and the other 

 a special outdoor sort. But conditions 

 have changed and with the change a 

 new problem is presented to those grow- 

 ing lettuce under glass. 



"The problem as I see it is that of 

 finding a special sort for each particular 

 purpose. Since we have prepared a dual 

 purpose lettuce which thrives equally 

 well in the open and under glass, if we 

 are to continue the cultivation of this 

 sort under glass it must take on some 

 distinctive mark or character when so 

 grown which cannot be acquired in the 

 open. 



"This gives me an opportunity to 

 again repeat my text, that it is the task 

 of the market gardener to refine horti- 

 culture, and to produce distinctive 

 products which are not generally pro- 

 duced by the truck farmers of the coun- 



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try, who can, as a rule, produce large 

 quantities of the standard vegetables 

 more cheaply than can market garden- 

 ers. Instead of trying to win out in a 

 competitive undertaking, let us rather 

 win our financial success by growing a 

 distinctly different type of product than 

 that grown in the open. 



"The work that we are doing at the 

 Department of Agriculture along this 

 line has for its object furnishing the 

 foundation on which such a distinctive 

 industry may be built up. It is our 

 desire to place the forcing industry and 

 the field industry on different founda- 

 tions — to develop a group of varieties 

 which are distinctive forcing sorts and 

 another group which are equally dis- 



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tinctive field sorts. This we believe to 

 be the simplest way of overcoming com- 

 petition and maintaining both indus- 

 tries. We are at present engaged in 

 determining the sorts which are dis- 

 tinctly adapted for forcing conditions. 

 We are endeavoring to improve the 

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