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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Pbbbuaby 16, 1911. 



Vegetable Forcing. 



The vegetable growers of New York 

 state are to meet at Ithaca, February 22, 

 to celebrate the anniversary of the father 

 of our country by fathering an organiza- 

 tion of their kind. 



VEGETABLE MABKETS. 



Chicago, February 14. — Cucumbers, $2 dozen; 

 lettuce, 30c case ; mushrooms, 20c to 40c lb. ; 

 radishes, 2Sc to 35c dozen bunches. 



New York, February 14. — Mushrooms plenty 

 and weak. Cucumbers steady. Radishes and 

 rhubarb quiet. Tomatoes firm. Cucumbers, $1 

 to $2 dozen; mint, |1 to $1.50 dozen bunches; 

 mushrooms, 50c to $1.25 4-lb. basket; radishes, 

 $2.50 to $3.50 hundred bunches; rhubarb, 40c to 

 60c dozen bunches; tomatoes, 15c to 37c lb. 



Boston, February 13. — Hothouse vegetables of 

 all kinds continue to sell well. Lettuce is mak- 

 ing better prices than for several jrars. Pars- 

 ley, $1.50 to $1.75 box; bunch beets, $1.50 to 

 $1.75 dozen bunches; bunch carrots, 75c to $1 

 dozen bunches; radishes, 35c to 40c dozen 

 bunches; lettuce, 75c to $1.20 box; cucumbers, 

 $4 to $14 box; cucumbers, $1.50 to $2.50 dozen; 

 beet greens, 75c to $1 box; dandelions, $1.75 to 

 $2 box; rhubarb, 8c lb.; mushrooms, 30c to 45c 

 lb.; romaine, $1 to $1.25 dozen; escaroUe, 50c 

 to 75c dozen; chicory, $1 to $1.25 dozen; mint, 

 $1 to $1.25 dozen. 



QBOWING OF EABLY CABBAGE. 



My experience in the growing of 

 early cabbage plants differs a little 

 frcm that of the grower whose views 

 are given in The Eeview of January 

 20, page 52. I have been in business as 

 a florist and market gardener for forty 

 years. My method is to sow cabbage and 

 Early Snowball cauliflower seed by the 

 middle of February and pot into 2-inch 

 or 3-inch pots as soon as large enough. 

 Then I put them in hotbeds, covering 

 the manure with several inches of sifted 

 coal ashes and plunging the pots in the 

 ashes. I cover the frames with mat- 

 ting, old carpets and boards on cold 

 nights, giving plenty of air every day 

 when the temperature is above freezing 

 and removing the sashes altogether 

 when the temperature is above 40 de- 

 grees. This insures strong, stocky 

 plants. 



After the plants have been sufficient- 

 ly hardened, they are exposed to light 

 frosts before being planted out. Then 

 they will stand almost anything. They 

 are planted in rich soil, which is also 

 top-dressed with a liberal quantity of 

 sheep manure and dried blood every 

 time it is cultivated. Nitrate of soda 

 is also used moderately once a week. 



Now as to results: I have frequently 

 had cauliflower in six weeks from 

 planting, and Wakefield and Early 

 Summer cabbage in eight to nine 

 weeks — good, solid, white heads, from 

 three to fcur pounds in weight, and 

 later as much as five to seven pounds. 

 Ninety per cent of the crop is marketed 

 in eleven weeks, at 3 cents to 4 cents 

 per pound, wholesale. Does it payt I 

 have found that it does. In this way 

 it is possible to have the bulk of your 

 crop sold before some of your com- 

 petitors commence to cut their crop. 

 W. C. Scovell. 



TO FOLLOW LETTUCE. 



How will carnations and mums follow 

 lettuce on ground beds? These beds 

 have been in lettuce for three years. 

 The soil is good, rich and loose. 



W. E. M. 



It would be a good plan for you to 

 send a sample of your soil to your 

 State Agricultural College for analysis. 

 You would then know exactly its value 



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and what elements are needed to 

 make it suitable for the carnations and 

 chrysanthemums. It is probable that if 

 you have suflBcient drainage you could 

 grow good flower crops by simply work- 

 ing in a good coating of well-decayed 

 manure, with some fine bone. Success- 

 ful growers of both mums and carna- 

 tions prefer to renew their soil annual- 

 ly and like to use fibrous loam from a 

 pasture which had been plowed the 

 previous fall. On the other hand, there 

 are other crops, such as sweet peas and 

 violets, which seem to do just as well 

 year after year in the same soil if it is 

 trenched and properly manured each 

 year. C. W. 



LEAF-BOT OF LETTUCE. 



Will The Review kindly let me know 

 what is wrong with the enclosed lettuce 

 leaves t Is the trouble caused by the 

 water which has been used for the let- 

 tuce! Heretofore I have used water 

 from a spring, with excellent success, 

 but recently my place was connected 

 with the city water system, and this 

 led me to think that possibly the water 

 was to blame. F. D. 



The leaves were so badly marked and 

 decayed upon arrival that it was hard 

 to tell just what the trouble was, but 

 I concluded that it was the common 

 leaf-rot fungus, so troublesome to many 



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lettuce growers. It is not caused by 

 the kind of water you are using, but is 

 a disease that spreads, and very rap- 

 idly under certain conditions. 



The preventives are as follows: Give 

 plenty of fresh air. Avoid watering in 

 the afternoons or on cloudy days. Do 

 not water unless necessary, and then 

 just the soil between the plants. Do 

 not sprinkle overhead like a rain. The 

 wet foliage does not become dry in a 

 long time in the kind of weather, we 

 have been having, and the dampness 

 and cloudy weather are favorable to 

 all such diseases. Remove the affected 

 plants and ventilate freely. H. G. 



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