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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



May 2. 1912. 



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Vegetable Forcing. 



TOMATOES AND CUCUMBERS. 



Could cucumbers and tomatoes be 

 grown satisfactorily in a house where 

 bedding plants are grown, if the seed 

 of tomatoes were sown February 1, 

 and cucumbers March If They would 

 be grown on benches, so that they 

 would only partly occupy the house 

 until June 1, when the bedding stock 

 would be out. What would be the best 

 method of management T 



What would be the best way to pipe 

 a house 18x100 feet, running east and 

 west, with 5-foot cement walls with 

 the exception of the south side, which 

 would have two feet of glass above 

 three feet of cement? C. A. P. 



Tomatoes would work out all right, 

 using part of the bench, but cucum- 

 bers would not, as they grow so rap- 

 idly that they would shade all other 

 stock and they require a warmer tem- 

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 tomatoes in the same house. They 

 like different degrees of moisture and 

 temperature. 



For these crops keep the pipes un- 

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 would need ten lines of l^-inch pipe 

 for your purposes if the house is alone, 

 but if protected, less might do. 



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climate is favorable to the business. 

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