. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 596 The American Florist, April 16, Market Gardeners Oreenhonse Vegetable Growers and Market Oardeoers* Association. Waid, New Carlisle. President: Franjclin DeKleine, Grand Rapids, Vice-President: S. W. Severance. 508 Illi- nois Life Building. Louisville, Ky., Secre- tary: M. L. Ruetenik. Cleveland. O., Treas. IX John Dunbar's notes in our last week's issue, page 54S, middle column, last line but one from bottom, for 139 feet, read 30 feet. Cucumbers and Tomatoes. ?We have frequently called the a
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 596 The American Florist, April 16, Market Gardeners Oreenhonse Vegetable Growers and Market Oardeoers* Association. Waid, New Carlisle. President: Franjclin DeKleine, Grand Rapids, Vice-President: S. W. Severance. 508 Illi- nois Life Building. Louisville, Ky., Secre- tary: M. L. Ruetenik. Cleveland. O., Treas. IX John Dunbar's notes in our last week's issue, page 54S, middle column, last line but one from bottom, for 139 feet, read 30 feet. Cucumbers and Tomatoes. ?We have frequently called the at- tention of growers to the necessity of balancing the fertilizer elements in their soils for the production of fruit instead of foliage. The conditions that produce excellent leaf lettuce are not so favorable for cucumbers and to- matoes, as here we want fruit. We have found in our beds we can en- tirely ignore phosphates for leaf let- tuce, hence we use nitrate of soda and sulphate of potash during the lettuce season, but as soon as the cucumbers and tomatoes are under way, we cor- rect things by adding heavily bone meal, rock phosphate or guano, as phosphptes are of great importance to flowers and fruit. Another factor is controlled mois- ture. We prefer to grow both cucum- bers and tomatoes rather dry until fruit has set, then water more liber- ally. The dry growing will build up a powerful root system which will stand a great deal of work later on. Cucum- ber growers should arrange in time for some bee hives, to have plenty of bees at hand to pollinate the blooms. Marketmak. Destruction of Eelworms in Soil. Eelworms or nematodes in garden and greenhouse soil constitute a seri- ous and troublesome pest for which it is extremely desirable to find some simple and practical remedy. Experi- ments on various methods of destroy- ing eelw;orms have been carried on for many years by G. E. Stone, of the Massachusetts Experiment Station, and a recent report of that station gives som
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