. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 804 The American Florist. April 26, Vegetable Growers' Association of America. H. ,Moorestown. N. ].. Precident- C. >Vest, Irondequoit. N. Y., Vice-President; E. A. Dunbar. Ashtabula, O., Secretary; M. L. Ruetenik, Cleveland. O., Treasurer ^= Prices of Indoor Fruits and and Vegetables. Chicago, April 21.—Mushrooms, 25 cents to tiO cents per pound; lettuce 35 cents to 37% cents, small cases; radishes, 20 cents to CO cents per dozen bunches; pieplant, $ per box; cu- cumbers, $ to $ per box of tw
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 804 The American Florist. April 26, Vegetable Growers' Association of America. H. ,Moorestown. N. ].. Precident- C. >Vest, Irondequoit. N. Y., Vice-President; E. A. Dunbar. Ashtabula, O., Secretary; M. L. Ruetenik, Cleveland. O., Treasurer ^= Prices of Indoor Fruits and and Vegetables. Chicago, April 21.—Mushrooms, 25 cents to tiO cents per pound; lettuce 35 cents to 37% cents, small cases; radishes, 20 cents to CO cents per dozen bunches; pieplant, $ per box; cu- cumbers, $ to $ per box of two dozen; asparagus, $ to $ for 24 bunches. New York, April 10.—Cucumbers, 50 cents to $ per dozen; mushrooms, 50 cents to $ per 4-pound basket; tomatoes, 10 cents to 20 cents per pound; radishes, $ to $ per 100 bunches; mint, $ to $ per 100 bunches; rhubarb, 25 cents to 40 cents per dozen bunches; lettuce, 25 cents to 40 cents per dozen; beet tops, 25 cents to 75 cents per box. The Montreal Muskmelon. A recent bulletin of the Vermont Ex- periment Station (No. 1G9), "Cultural Studies on the Montreal Market Musk- melon," by Wm. Stuart, gives some interesting information regarding this well known muskmelon. Mr. Stuart summarizes his bulletin as follows: 1. That the Montreal market musk- melon may be successfully grown in the northeastern states, provided the crop is handled as skillfully and intel- ligently as it is by the Montreal grower. 2. That there are at least two dis- tinct types and possibly a number of distinct strains, although it should be said that the latter point is not suf- ficiently well established to warrant dogmatic assertion. 3. That the demand exceeds the supply. 4. That though a costly crop to grow, sales prices are so high that the enterprise when successful is a highly remunerative one. 5. That the chemical analysis of the melons affords some guide to the selec- tion of high quality strains. 0. That the developm
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