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The Weekly Rorists' Review. 



Febbuabx 9, 1911. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MABKETS. 



Chioago, February 7. — Cucumbers, $1.75 dos. ; 

 lettuce, 30c to 32%c case. 



Boston, February 6. — Cucumbers, f4 to $14 box; 

 select cucumbers, $1.75 to $2 doz.; tomatoes. 30c 

 to 45c lb.; lettuce, 75c to $1.25 box; parsley, 

 $1.60 box; bunch beets, $1.50 to $2 doz.; bunch 

 carrots, 60c to 85c doz. ; radishes, 35c to 40c 

 doz. ; mushrooms, 30c to 40c lb. ; rhubarb, 10c 

 lb.; mint, $1 to $1.25 box; escarolle, $1 to $1.25 

 doz. ; romalne, 50c to 75c doz. 



New York, February 6. — Market steady on 

 cucumbers and firm on mint. Mushrooms cleaned 

 up fairly well at quotations. Radishes easier 

 and $3 now top. Rhubarb shows irregular quality 

 and value. Tomatoes in light supply and firmer. 

 Cucumbers, $1 to $2 doz.; mint, $1 to $1.60 

 dozen bunches; mushrooms, 50c to $1.20 4-lb. 

 basket; radishes, $3 hundred bunches; rhubarb, 

 40c to 65c dozen bunches; tomatoes, 15c to 37c lb. 



TOMATOES AND CUOUMBEBS. 



In his recent address before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 Boston, L. C. Corbett said in part: 



"Tomatoes are an important crop, 

 not only with the truck farmers of the 

 south but with those of Maryland, 

 Ohio, Indiana and New York, where 

 immense quantities are annually pro- 

 duced for canneries. The early south- 

 ern crop comes into competition with 

 the spring crop under glass to a con- 

 siderable extent, but the Cleveland and 

 Ashtabula growers maintain that this 

 competition is not destructive. The 

 greenhouse-grown product outsells the 

 southern field product in the same mar- 

 ket. The growers have seen to it that 

 their customers were taught to 

 discriminate between the vine-ripened, 

 greenhouse-grown product and that 

 ripened in transit from the southern 

 fields. They are further fortifying 

 their industry by growing under glass 

 special types of tomatoes not produced 

 in the field. The greenhouse-grown 

 product differs in color, size, texture 

 and flavor. These points of difference 

 are carefully pointed out as the reason 

 for the higher price. This is perfectly 

 legitimate. There is a place for the 

 southern product in the market, but it 

 should not be a competitor of the 

 greenhouse-grown fruit. If it is it is 

 because the market has not yet become 

 discriminating. A little educational 

 work on tomatoes is needed in that 

 market, and that is the grower's task. 



"Let us consider the cucumber sit- 

 uation. This crop is extensively grown 

 by truck farmers both in frames and 

 as a field crop. The season of the frame 

 crop overlaps that of the northern 

 forcing house product to some extent, 

 but as it costs a great deal to produce 

 the frame crop, and as it only overlaps 

 the house crop for a short period, it is 

 not a formidable competitor; but why 

 be content to have it a competitor at 

 all? We have based our whole cucum- 

 ber forcing industry outside the New 

 Orleans district on ^e White Spine, 

 the great American field type of cu- 

 cumber. Why not make the cucumber 

 forcing industry distinctive, as it is in 

 England f If the English sorts do not 

 suit our markets, make new ones that 

 fit American conditions, but which are 

 as distinctive as are the English forc- 

 ing type. This will solve the problem 

 of competition once and for all. I 

 have never thought the White Spine 

 the ideal forcing cucumber. It shows 

 its age in the market too soon. It is 

 too perishable for the effort it costs. 

 The ideal forcing cuke is one which 



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Falls City, Neb. — Simanton & Pence 

 are planning to add two rose houses as 

 soon as the weather becomes favorable 

 for building. 



Saratoga Springs, N. T.— Henry 

 Schrade reports some good sales on his 

 carnation, Canary Bird, which is said 

 to be increasing in favor wherever 

 grown. 



Rhubarb Roots 



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One year seedling roots, by mail post- 

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 By express, not paid, each, 10c ; 10 for 

 66c; 60fort8.&0; 100 for (4.00; 1000 

 for t30.00. 



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Wholesale Cut Hower Prices. 



Milwaukee, February 8, 1911. 

 Per 100 

 Beauty, Lonf laO.OOto $40.00 



Meditim 20.00 to 



Short 6.00 to 



Bride and Bridesmaid 5.00to 



Richmond 4.00to 



Killamey 4.00 to 



White Killamey 4.00to 



Perle 4.00 to 



Camationa 2.00to 



Valley 



Uliet per dot., 12.00 



Violets 75to 



Tulips 



Romans, Paper Whites 



Trumpets 



30.00 



10.00 



10.00 



10.00 



12.00 



12.00 



8.00 



6.00 



4.00 



1.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 

 3.00 



St. Louis. February 8. 1911. 



Perdoi. 



Beauty, Spedalfl 95.00 to $6.00 



" Kxtra S.OOto 4.00 



" Shorti 76to 1.00 



Per 100 



Bride and Maid 4 6.00 tot 8.00 



Richmond 5.00 to 8.00 



Maryland 6.00 to 8.00 



White Killamey 6.00 to 8.00 



ClUamey S.OOto 8.00 



Oamatlona 2.00 to 



LUyoftheVaUey 2.00 to 



HarrlMI 12.50 to 



Violets 26to 



Paper Whites 8.00to 



Romans 2.00 to 



Sweet Peas .60to 



Callas 10.00 to 



Tulips ? 2.00 to 



8.00 



3.00 



16.00 



.60 



4.00 



8.00 



.76 



12.60 



3.00 



YouB ad got us busy on Killamey; 

 had to send back over $100.— tFrej & 

 Frey, Lincoln, Neb. 



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