. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 434 The American Florist. The company which supplies most of the canned asparagus lor Chicago received word March 28 that California floods have cut short the crops at the principal producing points. The Worcester County (Mass.) market gardeners to the number of thirty-seven visited a number of the cucumber grow- ers at Leominster on March 19, under guidance of E. M. Bruce. Among the places visited were the greenhouses of E. M. Bruce, D. E. Wheeler, M. D. Haws, Frank Pierce, Geo. M. Kendall and S. A. Esten
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 434 The American Florist. The company which supplies most of the canned asparagus lor Chicago received word March 28 that California floods have cut short the crops at the principal producing points. The Worcester County (Mass.) market gardeners to the number of thirty-seven visited a number of the cucumber grow- ers at Leominster on March 19, under guidance of E. M. Bruce. Among the places visited were the greenhouses of E. M. Bruce, D. E. Wheeler, M. D. Haws, Frank Pierce, Geo. M. Kendall and S. A. Esten. They were entertained at Music Hall, where the wives of the growers had prepared a bountiful repast. The number of winter cucumber growers in Leominster is twenty-eight, the most extensive establishment being that of Geo. M. Kendall. All make a practice of sterilizing the soil by forcing steam through it, and bees are used generally for the purpose of fertilization. Sterili- zation costs from $150 to $200 per acre per year. The sterilized soil is used to a depth of twelve to fourteen inches. A Cucumber Forcing; House. At theestablishmcnt of Davis Brothers, Morrison, 111., three houses, each 30x300 feet, are devoted to cucumber forcing. The accompanying illustration shows one of these which was planted Decem- ber 15 of last year. The photograph was taken March 2. The houses are all new and thoroughly up-to-date and fitted with the Chadborn automatic ventilating machine, which is giving good satisfac- tion. The gutters are seven feet from the ground with four feet of glass in the side walls. The benches are made of ordinary drain tile laid on the ground with 10-inch planks for sides. The soil is an ordinary turfy sod with one-fourth rotted manure thoroughly mixed. The plants were set into the benches about December 1. Davis Brothers are grow- ing the Arlington White Spine with great success, also some of the long green varieties. The Davis establishment at Morrison covers 55,00
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