. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 268 The American Florist. Aug. 28, I Market Gardeners OreenhoDse Vegetable Growers and Market Gardeners' Association. E, A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, O,, President; S. J. Perry. Grand Rapids, Mich., Vice-Pres- ident; , Cleveland. O., Treas- urer; S. W. Severance, 508 Illinois Life Building. Louisville, Ky., Secretary. Next meetine in Ashtabula. October 12, IW. Six to nine inches in length is the most marketable size for cucumbers in most localities. They should be cut, not pulled, from the vine. CLYDE, O.—
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 268 The American Florist. Aug. 28, I Market Gardeners OreenhoDse Vegetable Growers and Market Gardeners' Association. E, A. Dunbar, Ashtabula, O,, President; S. J. Perry. Grand Rapids, Mich., Vice-Pres- ident; , Cleveland. O., Treas- urer; S. W. Severance, 508 Illinois Life Building. Louisville, Ky., Secretary. Next meetine in Ashtabula. October 12, IW. Six to nine inches in length is the most marketable size for cucumbers in most localities. They should be cut, not pulled, from the vine. CLYDE, O.—This town of 4,000 in- habitants is the center of tlie kraut industry of the United States; three large concerns operate here. Cheney Farm South Manchester, Coon. The accompanying illustrations are the last in the series we have produced from photographs taken at the Cheney Farm, South Manchester, Conn. No. 1 is_ looking east through partitioned house, where an expert assistant is tying up the cucumber vines. On the right is seen Seth Leslie Cheney, the owner, and on the left T. L. Brown, farm manager. No. 2 shows Comet to- matoes, just two weeks out of 6-inch pots. We are sorry we did not have a view of the hundreds of sashes in hot- beds and cold frames, where vegetable plants are raised by the hundreds of thousands. Outdoor Tomatoes. This is a good time to talk about tomatoes, while the crop is at its. AT THE CHENEY FARM, SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONN. Fig. 1—S. L. Cheney, Owner, on Eight; T. L. Brown, Manager, on Left. As a means of destroying Insects clean gardening or plowing is of great assistance. Never let crops stay on the ground after passing the useful stage, but gather and burn them. The common garden and field weeds should be kept under, as they form alternate food plants for injurious insects of all kinds. VEGETABLE PLANTS. Cabbage. Succession, Flat Dutch and Savoy. $ per I'OOO; $ per Celery, White Plume and Golden Self BJanchine. $1.(10 per 1000; SS
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