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The Florists^ Review 



June 14, 1917. 



eties — the list this year shows only 

 4ibout twenty-five per cent white. 



By way of testing the possibilities 

 and "doing one's bit," a bench was 

 planted with tomatoes about Easter. 

 They are loaded with fruit and picking 

 will begin within a week. 



Since the completion last summer of 

 the big new service building between 

 the older houses and the big new range 

 erected by the American Greenhouse 

 Mfg. Co., the entire place has been 

 heated from this central plant with its 

 battery of four high-pressure steam 

 boilers of Kroeschell manufacture. 

 Three old boilers are now being torn 

 out from an abandoned pit, after which 

 the excavation will be made into a 

 reservoir. Otto Amling comments on the 

 constantly increasing quantity of 

 water used. Four great electric pumps 

 are not enough and others will be in- 

 stalled. The Amlings are forehanded 

 and the steadily rising price of fer- 

 tilizers has prompted the storing of 

 three cars of blood, and bone. 



-Albert P. Amling^ Otto Amling and 

 their wives left June 9 for an automo- 

 bile trip to Green Bay, Wis., where 

 Mrs. Otto Amling has relatives. 



Four of Albert F. Amling 's sons reg- 

 istered June 5 for the draft. 



W. H. Amling. 



William H. Amling, who is president 

 of the Chicago Florists' Club, has been 

 ill all winter with anemia and takes 

 only a supervisory part in the green- 

 house work, although much improved. 

 His son, Herbert, is in charge, handling 

 the mums, and winter peas, while the 

 youngest son, Martin, handles the car- 

 nations and spring peas. W. H. Amling 

 says it has not been an especially good 

 season for peas, the pick falling about 

 ten per cent below that of last year, 

 because of weather conditions, while 

 the price also has been down about ten 

 per cent. He hopes, however, to see 

 the record improved by the crops of 

 the next few weeks, the light pick of 

 spring peas in May and thus far in 

 June indicating a heavy crop following 

 a few days of bright, warm weather. 

 Already mums have been planted in 

 part of the space of the winter Spencers 

 and 40,000 will be on the benches so 

 soon as the last of the seed now ripen- 

 ing is harvested. W. H. Amling grows 

 his sweet peas on raised benches. 



Three of William H. Amling 's sons 

 registered for the draft. 



Walter Amling. 



It will be news to most of the trade 

 that Maywood has still another in- 

 dependent grower of the Amling name. 

 Walter Amling, eldest son of W. H. 

 Amling, married last autumn and 

 bought his father's detached rose 

 range, including a residence and several 

 acres of land. He had previously been 

 in charge of these five houses and had 

 proved his competence as a grower^ut 

 he has done even better in his first 

 season for his own account. He has 

 completed his replanting, replacing two 

 houses of Killarney with Ophelia, 

 Poehlmann stock. The three houses 

 carried over are Killarney and White 

 Killarney. The place is in good shape, 

 with a new Kroeschell boiler and a 

 new tall brick stack one year used, and 

 Mr. Amling has made a good start to- 

 ward paying for it. He should prosper. 



Ernst C. Amling. 

 Ernst Amling, the eldest son of 



Albert, is as comfortably situated as 

 any grower in the section. He was 

 among the first to take up Bussell and 

 Ophelia and for two years these are the 

 only varieties he has grown. He has 

 had just enough black spot to keep him 

 interested, and the coal bill has been 

 just big enough to make maximum re- 

 turns an object. It is said that in his 

 home the motto is, "Let us be thank- 

 ful, ' ' and in the greenhouses, * * Let well 

 enough alone." 



Henry Wehrman. 



Henry Wehrman 's place is not large, 

 but he works diligently and intelli- 

 gently, so that when he goes to town, 

 or elsewhere, it is in a new twin-six 

 Packard, the classiest car in the colony. 

 Mr. Wehrman grows sweet peas in solid 

 beds, with mums as a catch crop, and 

 a few carnations that are jettisoned 

 when it is time to plant the spring peas. 

 One house of mums already has been 

 planted. 



Weiss & Meyer COf^ 

 Beauties have been the specialty of 



thA W 

 six^ bi( 



thd Weiss & Meyer Co., 35,000 plants, 

 six^ big houses of them, but after re- 

 peated trials the same conclusion as 

 elsewhere has been arrived at — that 

 Beauties can no longer be grown as 

 profitably as other roses. Consequently, 

 three houses of Beauties have been 

 thrown out and the space given to 

 Hoosier Beauty, Eussell and Ophelia, 

 one house of each. There still are three 

 houses of Beauties, but they will go 

 next year if they do not hold up their 

 end with the new arrivals this season. 



After having bought the glass for 

 another house, the management has 

 thought better of it and has decided to 

 postpone building. 



June 6 the Maywood growers knocked 

 off for a couple of days' fishing, going 

 by automobile to Lake Marie. In the 

 party were Ernst 0. Amling, Paul 

 Weiss, Walter Burhop, Hugo Luedtke, 

 Henry Wehrman, William Collatz, Paul 

 Amling and Walter Amling. At the 

 lake they were joined for a day by an- 

 other party, including E. C. Amling, H. 

 N. Bruns, H. C Wendland and John 

 Michelsen. 



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NEW YORK. 



Club Cancels Convention Frolic. 



The New York Florists' Club, at its 

 meeting June 11, decided to cancel the 

 arrangements for an outing to occupy 

 the fourth day of the S. A. F. conven- 

 tion in August. This action was taken 

 after plans had been made for raising a 

 large fund for entertainment purposes 

 and was in deference to the opinion of 

 conservative members, who felt that 

 the times make such an affair unseemly, 

 however unexceptionable it might be 

 when the nation is not at war. 



A warm discussion, lasting over an 

 hour and of intense interest, resulted in 

 the elimination of the club's proposed 

 entertainment feature, the bowling con- 

 tests, the souvenir program, the Hotel 

 Biltmore selection for the president's 

 reception in favor of the Grand Central 

 Palace, the boat trip to Coney Island 

 and the banquet. The suggestion of the 

 committee for the entertainment of the 

 ladies was adopted, and expenses au- 

 thorized also by the hotel, reception 

 and decorating committees. Mr. O'Mara 

 moved that all legitimate expenses be 

 borne by the club and made a strong ad- 

 dress in favor of the club's ultimate 

 decisions. The principal speakers, pro 

 and con, were F. E. Pierson, P. O'Mara, 

 W. A. Manda, W. H. Siebrecht, Jr., Wal- 

 lace E. Pierson, C. H. Totty, A. L. Mil- 

 ler, F. H. Traendly, Chas. Schenck, and 

 Messrs. Tuthill, Weston, Esler, Irwin, 

 Kenney, Scott, Smith, Holt, Guttman, 

 Vick, Eigby, Kessler, Schloss and Stew- 

 art. Mr. Esler finally moved the dis- 

 charge of the finance committee and the 

 conflagration of the list of subscrip- 

 tions, amounting, Chairman Pierson 

 said, to "well over $2,000," of an an- 

 ticipated $10,000. The importance of 

 this decision cannot be overestimated, 

 according to Chairman F. E. Pierson, 

 who said: "It will affect the future 



of the 8. A. F. to its advantage in every 

 way. Now the society will get down 

 to hard work. Serious questions de- 

 mand earnest consideration, and I am 

 glad the New York Florists* Club has 

 had the moral courage to act." 



Mispellaneous Business. 



The following gentlemen, proposed at 

 the May meeting, were elected to mem- 

 bership: S. Kahn, New Springville, 

 S. I.; John Featherstone, Tarrytown, 

 N. Y.; D. J. Pappas, Fred. Bergman, 

 Eric Otto, Eeo M. Guido, New York. 



Votes of thanks were awarded the 

 exhibits of tlie evening. These were a 

 pot of Nierembergia gracilis, from P. 

 W. Popp, of Mamaroneck, and a fine dis- 

 play of German irises by the Garden 

 Magazine. 



The by-laws were suspended and the 

 trustees empowered to invest $5,000 of 

 the club 's funds in Liberty bonds. Also, 

 on motion of Emil Schloss, it was unani- 

 mously voted that $1,000 of the club's 

 funds be donated to the Bed Cross. 



Eesolutions on the deaths of Messrs. 

 Bogert and Weeber were read, and the 

 secretary was instructed to send copies 

 to the bereaved families. 



Announcement was made of the death 

 of Miss Maynard, of Great Neck, daugh- 

 ter of W. E. Maynard, and a committee 

 was appointed to draw up resolutions 

 of sympathy. 



Mr. Thilow's Lecture. 



The lecture by J. Otto Thilow, of 

 Philadelphia, on "Life and Flora of 

 Hawaii, ' ' illustrated by original stere- 

 opticon views, proved of great interest 

 and a rising vote of thanks was enthusi- 

 astically tendered the eloquent speaker. 



Visitors at the meeting were E. G. 

 Hill, of Eichmond, Ind., and Samuel 

 Murray, of Kansas City," brought east 

 by a special session of Hail Association 

 directors. 



Contrary to the usual custom of the 

 club to cancel the July and August 



