. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1904. The American Florist. 87. Notes of the Growers. George M. Kendall, of Leonminster, Mass., one of the largest vegetable forcers of the state, is making the experi- ment of setting cucumber plants farther apart than usual. Most of the cucum- ber growers settheirplantsfrom fourteen to thirty inches apart but Mr. Kendall regards four feet between the plants as not too much for best results. He grows his cucumbers on mackeral nets in place of wire on account of its cheapness and ease of removal when clearing the
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 1904. The American Florist. 87. Notes of the Growers. George M. Kendall, of Leonminster, Mass., one of the largest vegetable forcers of the state, is making the experi- ment of setting cucumber plants farther apart than usual. Most of the cucum- ber growers settheirplantsfrom fourteen to thirty inches apart but Mr. Kendall regards four feet between the plants as not too much for best results. He grows his cucumbers on mackeral nets in place of wire on account of its cheapness and ease of removal when clearing the houses. His largest house is 80x250 feet. Most of the large vegetable forcers in New England sterilize all the soil used in their houses. A swarm of bees in the greenhouse will do the work of fertilizing cucumber flow- ers much more thoroughly and in much less time than is possible by manual labor. A bushel of cucumbers to the plant is a fair average for a greenhouse cucumber crop. W. W. Rawson, the extensive grower of vegetables under glass at Arlington, Mass., regards the question of labor sav- ing as the greatest problem at present confronting the vegetable forcer. It is thirty years since the first greenhouses were established in the vicinity of Bos- ton for vegetable growing and since then the increase has been remarkable, and the improvements in greenhouse building and heating during that period have been taken full advantage of by the market gardeners. George Matthews, of Great Neck, L. I., has eight large middle benches sown with sweet peas planted two rows in a bed; and between the rows are sown radishes which he sends to a commission man in New York, getting 4 cents a dozen for them. Cucumbers for Forcing. Ed. Am. Florist:—I am thinking of putting cucumbers in one of my green- houses. Will you kindly inform me what are the best kinds for forcing and whether it is necessary to have bees? 1 have had good success with the English forcing, but some claim it is better to
Size: 2275px × 1098px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, booksubjectfloriculture, bookyea
