. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1012 The American Florist. Dec. lo, V>= Market Gardeners Lffeeuouu*« Vetf«laDle uruwtsra and M«rL*l Gardoners' Assoolallon. B. L. Watts, State Colloiio. Pa. President; H F Hall. GraodKaDidsMich., Vice-Pres- ident; S. \V, Seyerance. 5liS Illinois Life Building. Louisville Ky . Sicrctary; M. L. Ructcnik. Cleveland. 'I . Treasurer Annual m etDB a' Boston 19lt. Prices of Indoor Fruits and Vegetables. Chicago, December 5.—Mushrooms, 15 cents to 25 cents per pound; cu- cumbers, $ to $ per dozen; to- ma
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1012 The American Florist. Dec. lo, V>= Market Gardeners Lffeeuouu*« Vetf«laDle uruwtsra and M«rL*l Gardoners' Assoolallon. B. L. Watts, State Colloiio. Pa. President; H F Hall. GraodKaDidsMich., Vice-Pres- ident; S. \V, Seyerance. 5liS Illinois Life Building. Louisville Ky . Sicrctary; M. L. Ructcnik. Cleveland. 'I . Treasurer Annual m etDB a' Boston 19lt. Prices of Indoor Fruits and Vegetables. Chicago, December 5.—Mushrooms, 15 cents to 25 cents per pound; cu- cumbers, $ to $ per dozen; to- matoes, 5 cents to V2V« cents per pound; radishes. 40 cents to 50 cents per dozen bunches. New York, December 3.—Mush- rooms, 60 cents per pound; cucum- bers, 15 cents each; lettuce, $ per dozen heads; tomatoes, 25 cents per pound; radishes, 00 cents per dozen bunches; asparagus, $9 per dozen bunches; grapes, Gros Colman, $1 per pound; cauliflower, 25 cents per head. Lettuce Plants. We believe each grower should pro- duce his own plants, as buying plants from any source is a great risk. We sell a good many plants, and the de- mand seems to be constantly in excess of the supply. This indicates that a large percentage of the growers fail at one time or another to raise good plants. Generally the last two months in the year are the most unfavorable for plant production. The main cause for this may be found in false econo- my of heat and lack of air. If oper- otors would learn to heat and carry open ventilators in fall they could al- most ignore weather conditions. We make it a practice to start the seeds in the coolest part of the range; transplant into as low a temperature as possible; that is, the seed bed and the plant beds should both be lower in temperature than the growing houses. Plants thus grown will take hold at once after moving, which is the main point. Seedlings, dibbled out 2%x2%, should make excellent plants: just before the leaves touch we use a sharp kni
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