. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1020 The American Florist. Dec. 12^ Greenhouse Veffetable Growers and Market Gardeners* Asssoclatlon. E. A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, President; S J. Perry. Grand Rapids, ilich . Vice-Pres- ident; , Cleveland, Treas- urer: S, W. Severance. 508 Illinois Life Buildins, Louisville, Kv., Secretary, W. S. Weiant is building an addition to his greenhouse foui- miles east ol Newark. O., es jis present plant is not large enough to supply the demand for his indoor vegetables. Forcing: Cucumbers. The forcing of
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1020 The American Florist. Dec. 12^ Greenhouse Veffetable Growers and Market Gardeners* Asssoclatlon. E. A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, President; S J. Perry. Grand Rapids, ilich . Vice-Pres- ident; , Cleveland, Treas- urer: S, W. Severance. 508 Illinois Life Buildins, Louisville, Kv., Secretary, W. S. Weiant is building an addition to his greenhouse foui- miles east ol Newark. O., es jis present plant is not large enough to supply the demand for his indoor vegetables. Forcing: Cucumbers. The forcing of cucumbers is fast be- coming a leading line of the work of the vegetable grower. In certain parts of New England, it has grown to very important dimensions. The accompany- ing ijhotograph illustrates a type of cu- cumber which, though it has many qual- ities that make it more desirable than the short varieties, is not so popular in the market and is rarely grown with profit. Here and there, there are those who know the yard-long seedless type of cu- cumber, but the market is not wide enough to warrant its cultivation on any- thing like an extensive scale. John Craig. Influence of Bottom Heat on Cucumbers. An experiment in forcing cucumbers which has been conducted by the Wis- consin Experiment Station for the past three seasons had for its chief object the determination of the soil tempera- ture best suited to the production of the crop, irrespective of cost. Other fac- tors studied were earliness, relative number of male and female flowers and relative effect on growth and vigor of plants. Eight benches of plants were grown, three each in 1905 and 190G and two in 1007. The range of tem- perature from lowest to highest during the entire period was from ; to ° F. From ob.'iervatious made and data se- cured during the three years, it is con- cluded that a soil temperature of ap- proximately 74° gives a greater fruit- fulness during the same length of time I* HENRY
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