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The Weekly Florists' Reviewl 



Febbuabt 23, 1911. 





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Vegetable Forcing. 



VEGETABLE MARKETS. 



Chicago, February 21. — Cucumbers, $1.50 to 

 $1.75 doz. ; lettuce, 30c to 32%c case. 



New York, February 20. — Mushrooms cleaning 

 np -well and tone firm. Cucumbers in Ught supply 

 nnd firm. Mint scarce. Rhubarb and radishes 

 selling slowly. Tomatoes dull. Cucumbers, 75c 

 to $2.25 doz.; mint, $1 to $1.60 dozen bunches; 

 mushrooms, 50c to $1.40 4-Ib. basket; radishes, 

 $2.50 to $3 hundred bunches; rhubarb, 40c to 60c 

 dozen bunches; tomatoes, 15c to 35c lb. 



Boston, February 20.^Bunch beets, $1.50 doz.; 

 bunch cartots, 75c doz. ; bunch radishes, 30c to 

 40c lb; tomatoes, 40c to 50c lb; cucumbers, $5 

 to $16 box; special cucumbers, $2 to $3 doz.; 

 rhubarb, 7c to 8c lb.; lettuce, 75c to $1 box; 

 dandelions, $1.50 to $1.75 box; spinach, $1.25 to 

 $l..'iO box; romalne, 75c to $1 doz.; escarolle, 50c 

 to Toe doz.; mint, $1.25 to $1.50 dozen bunches; 

 mushrooms, 30c to 40c lb. 



APHIS ON LETTUCE. 



I should like to find a satisfactory 

 method of dealing with aphis on let- 

 tuce. I have tried smoking with to- 

 bacco stems. This kills some of them, 

 but sometimes injures other plants, I 

 have also tried fumigation with cya- 

 nide and sulphuric acid, but with even 

 poorer results. The house is not glazed 

 as tightly as it might be. Would it be 

 safe to make the cyanide solution 

 stronger? If so, would you use more 

 sulphuric acid? 



Can you suggest a good book on the 

 culture of lettuce and geraniums and 

 tell me where I can get it? W. E. O. 



Aphis on lettuce is hard to extermi- 

 nate when once well started. The best 

 way is to keep the pest down with 

 light fumigations given every week reg- 

 ularly, even when no insects are to be 

 found. When once they are well estab- 

 lished, it is necessary to keep after 

 them almost every night until con- 

 trolled, as nothing hurts the lettuce 

 business more than lettuce that is so 

 infested. 



I think that if you would try Aphis 

 Punk (papers now, you would be well 

 pleased with the results. They are 

 much more efficient than stems and less 

 injurious to the plants. Cyanide could 

 certainly be used stronger than you 

 used it, if it did not kill the aphis. 

 You could increase all the ingredients, 

 or, better, use more jars to a house. 

 Stop up all holes in the house that can 

 readily be repaired and it will make 

 a great difference with the fumigation. 



I know of no book covering both gera- 

 niums and lettuce. You can, however, 

 get a bulletin on lettuce from the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture and there 

 is a good chapter bn geraniums in 

 Scott's "Florists' Manual," which The 

 Review sends postpaid on receipt of $5. 

 H. G. 



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