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Title: Florists' review (microform)
Identifier: 5205536_38_1 (find matches)
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Floriculture
Publisher: Chicago : Florists' Pub. Co
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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•■ f9rvTT.:friW'\f:: . >.^ -'..'■■ f ■■\>' y^ May 11, 1910. The Florists' Review 17 Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit: VEGETABLES AND FRUITS DEPARTMENT SWEET POTATOES. Kindly inform me what will make canvas turn water. I wish to cover a sweet potato hotbed with this ma- terial. Also, how many bushels of seed sweet potatoes will be needed for a bed 4x16 feet, and how many slips can be taken from the seed sweets every other day? Any information will be appreciated. C. JJ. H.—111. f J I'^Draw the canvas taut over the frame •*•'» of your sweet potato hotbed and apply warm linseed oil with a paint brush. One bushel of medium-sized seed sweet potatoes will cover sixteen square feet, or four bushels will be needed for a bed 4x16 feet. ' The Yellow Nansemond and fellow Jersey varieties average about 3,000 plants to the bushel. The Big> Stem Jersey, Early Golden and Nancy Hall varieties are not so productive, and we consider 2,500 plants from a bushel of seeds a good yield. About seventy- five per cent of the plants usually are ready for drawing in six weeks after bedding, and the balance ten days later. H. Austin. WANTS LARGER TOMATOES. In The Review for April 13, on page 50, there appeared an article under the heading "Tomatoes Under Glass," by r. E. B. The method of artificial polli- nation described certainly is the proper one, as it never fails to set the fruit, but there are several questions I would like to have F. E. B. answer. Here they are: What variety of tomatoes do you grow? I have mostly grown the Comet, but I find that the fruit, while it sets well, is small; it averages about six or seven to the pound. My market wants about four or five tomatoes to the pound. How far apart do you set the plants? I plant two rows in a bench three feet six inches wide, and set the plants four- teen inches apart in the rows. How often and what do you feed the plants? I mix four pounds of nitrate of soda with eight pounds of sulphate of potash and twelve pounds of super- phosphate. I feed two ounces of this to the square yard, one application eacli week. When I first plant I use a little more soda and less potash. My fruit is always of excellent flavor. When do you stop your plants? I generally allow mine to grow about seven feet. The jilants have seven to nine fruit bunches. Do you have any trouble in obtain- ing large tomatoes? This is my great- est trouble. My blossoms set well, but they will not swell to a good size. This year they are better, but still not so large as I want them. If I fed the plants more, would I obtain better re- sults? C. D. O.—Cal. I grow the variety known as Balch 's Fillbasket. It is a smooth variety and produces four or five tomatoes to the pound. Also, it is the earliest variety I know. I am sending you a little of the seed. My house is 25x200 feet; the output is seven tons of fruit. I WHO'S WHOlliSI-AND WHY j Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?
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JOHN POEHLMANN. IT would be a fine thing for the trade if there were more men in it lield in the esteem accorded John W. Poehlmann. Everyone acquainted with trade history knows the outline of Mr. Poehlmann's business career; how as young men from Milwaukee three brothers started, in 1890, a greenhouse business at Morton Grove, 111., on a combined cash capital of $80; how today the corporation that eventuated has the largest investment in greenhouses and equipment to be found anywhere in the United States, its assets being appraised above a million. John Poehlmann, the eldest of the brothers, is president and in charge of the Chicago wholesale store. He is a man of few words, but with a keen sense of humor and his advice frequently is sought by outsiders, because of his well known conservatism. Mr. Poehlmann recently has not been in good health and has freed himself of business details, with the result that he has had time to keep in still closer touch with trade aflfairs in general. The distance between the plants should be at least eighteen inches. If grown too close the plants come drawn and weak, and carry poor fruit. Your feeding is quite wrong. Never mix nitrate of soda with acid phos- phates or sulphate of ammonia. The mixing of superphosphate with nitrate of soda liberates the free nitric acid. The use of large quantities of nitrate of soda on the tomato plant before it is balanced would give you excessive growth at the expense of the fruit. A. larger quantity of phosphate or bone flour would be infinitely better. The potash is all right and would give you quality and flavor. The question of when to stop the plants depends on how you want the fruit. If you require an early crop, stop the plants at the third bunch, one leaf above the bunch of fruit. Remove the leading lateral bud and take up the lateral bud below the top bunch of fruit. To have a full crop, run the plants to the roof and then lay in all side growths. When the tomato commences to swell you should begin to feed—never give a young horse corn. Possibly the best you could use for this purpose would be fish or blood fertilizer. Both are organic and contain fourteen to six- teen per cent of ammonia. A liberal dressing once a week, with an occa- sional soaking of cow manure liquid, would be about right. Never feed a to- mato plant with nitrogenous manures until it is balanced and fruiting; F. E. B. Columbus, O. — Samuel Graff will move his store from its present loca- tion, in Keith's Theater building, to the Braun building, 57 East Gay street, about July 1.

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