. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Market Gardening:. W. W. Rawson's formula for a success- ful market gardener is, a school and business education, a partial college edu- cation, a capital of $10,000 and, most essential of all, a practical experience. The demand for winter lettuce is on the increase each year, but southern compe- tition has made the price very uncertain and the profits elusive for the greenhouse- grown crop. W. W. Rawson, of Arlington, Mass., is quoted as saying that a forcing house built seven years ago at a cost of $7,500 has yi
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Market Gardening:. W. W. Rawson's formula for a success- ful market gardener is, a school and business education, a partial college edu- cation, a capital of $10,000 and, most essential of all, a practical experience. The demand for winter lettuce is on the increase each year, but southern compe- tition has made the price very uncertain and the profits elusive for the greenhouse- grown crop. W. W. Rawson, of Arlington, Mass., is quoted as saying that a forcing house built seven years ago at a cost of $7,500 has yielded $10,000 each year. Various Notes. A pest known as the Mexican fly is giving serious trouble to some Massa- chusetts cucumber forcers this season. The insect is white, not larger than a pin head and when in flight in myriads resembles a snOw storm. Cucumber and tomato vines quickly succumb to their attacks. Hydro-cyanic acid is fatal to them but its use in a house of young growing crops is exceedingly risky, as the plants are equally sensitive to the gas. The present season has been the most trying one ever experienced by the vege- table forces. The consumption of coal has been enormous, and, owing to the extreme cold, many wholesale produce houses have been declining to handle cucumbers on account of the danger from freezing. Prices received for cucum-bers have not averaged more than forty per cent of what they were last winter. Tomatoes have, on the other hand, brought record prices. On account of the severity oi the cold this winter, cucumber growers have found the work of hybridizing by bees extremely difficult. During the coldest spells it has been necessary to hive the insects in the boiler rooms. Deutzla Lemoinei. This beautiful deutzia, a hybrid between the ever-popular D. gracilis and D. cre- nata, is well worthy of a place in the list of desirable Easter-flowering shrubs. The deutzias are hardy and should be left outside until about eight weeks before Easter, tha
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