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October 18, 1904. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1007 



the old plants when planted in beds. 

 Those taken middle of August to middle 

 of September are the best cuttings for 

 fern dishes and short pot plants. The 

 canes off of the old plants can be made 

 into cuttings, one eye at each end; place 

 them in the sand firmly and water as 

 you would your soft cuttings. It takes 

 a little longer to root, but they make 

 fine bracts. 



To support the plants place two No. 

 18 galvanized wires one above the other, 

 and right above the plants, with twenty- 

 four inches space between them, running 

 lengthwise with the bed. A few braces 

 to stiffen the wire will be sufficient to 

 hold your plants in position. Never use 

 cane sticks, No. O wire for sticks in 

 your pot plants is much better, as you 

 will bruise some of the roots in doing 

 this, and from the very start never 

 bruise the bark of your plant or the 

 roots, as the plant will bleed, which is 

 very injurious at any stage of the game. 



On December 10 stop watering and 

 syringing; this hardens them and they 

 will get into good shape to cut any time 

 after December 20. If you want them 

 sooner cease your watering accordingly. 

 Don't take up your plants until January 

 1 and, whatever you do, don 't give them 

 any water, but have them perfectly dry. 

 Take them up carefully, see that you 

 don't bruise the roots, bunch them close- 

 ly together and heel them in a bench in 

 your shed. 



Handling the Bracts. 



I have tried every imaginable way of 

 treating the cut bracts and I have ob- 

 tained the best results, but with a little 

 trouble. You have a small oil stove at 

 the end of your greenhouse walk, with 

 boiling water and cut your poinsettia 

 the desired length. You want to be a 

 little quick about this work as you want 

 to get about three or four inches of the 

 stem in the hot water; hold them in it 

 about ten or fifteen seconds and take 

 them right out into cold water. I find 

 that by cutting just what one can han- 

 dle, say six or eight of the long stems, 

 you can have the ends together for the 

 hot water. The idea is not to let your 

 stems bleed, or as little as possible. 

 Work this properly and your flower will 

 not wilt. 



Now, one other matter, and very im- 

 portant. If you cut a part of a stem 

 after you have cured it, it will be nec- 

 essary for you to go through the same 

 process as you did when you cut them 

 in the greenhouses. It would be well 

 for all florists to remind cut flower buy- 

 ers not to cut the poinsettia stem, or if 

 they should, be sure to burn or boil three 

 or four inches of the stem; also avoid 

 a draught on them. 



RUST ON CARNATIONS. 



Will you kiii'lly tell me of some rem- 

 edy for rust on carnations. When I 

 took the carnation plants from the field 

 I found black spots on the leaves, which 

 turn to a powder. I picked off all the 

 diseased loaves before I benched the 

 plants but have the same trouble again, 

 especially on Flamingo, Enchantress and 

 Wolcott. I am very careful in watering. 



W. A. 



I would advise you to keep the af- 

 fected leaves picked off and dust the 

 plants with air-slaked lime. Stop syring- 

 ing except about once each week to keep 



Lewis Ullrich. 



down red spider. Do all you can to pro- 

 mote a strong, steady growth and your 

 plants will soon be in shape to fight off 

 the disease for themselves. This is not 

 a dangerous disease like stem-rot or the 

 leaf-spot but it is, of course, not desir- 

 able, either. A. F. J. Baur. 



LEWIS ULLRICH, 



The subject of this brief sketch was 

 born at Kerweiler, in Bavaria, in 1848, 

 but was brought to America by his par- 

 ents when he was in only his second 

 year. The family resided at Monroe- 

 ville, N. Y., for a time, but removed to 

 Tiffin, Ohio, in 1862, and there Mr. Ull- 

 rich has made his home for forty-two 

 years. He completed the public school 

 course in 1866 and then went to Heidel- 

 berg, in Baden, to complete his educa- 

 tion in the university founded in 1386 

 and restored in 1803, which is the oldest 

 in Germany and one of the most famous 

 in the world. Graduating there, he re- 

 turned to Tiffin and devoted sixteen 

 years to pharmacy. In 1874 he built 

 his first greenhouse, a conservatory 15x 

 20 for his mother's plants. At that time 

 there was no florist in Tiffin and cut 

 flowers were unknown to the many 

 uses for which they are now so largelv 

 employed. Six years later Mr. Ullrich 

 bought a piece of ground in the suburbs 

 and built two commercial houses, one 

 12x50, the other 25x50. Now he has 

 about 50,000 feet of well kept glass, 

 growing roses, carnations, violets, chrys- 

 anthemums and a few bedding plants. 

 Ninety per cent of the product is sold 



wholesale to the florists of the vicinity. 

 Mr. Ullrich is a participant in all locaT 

 activities and has done much to widen 

 the floricultural interests of his locality. 

 At the same time he has earned for him- 

 self a place high in the regard of his 

 neighbors, having served for several 

 years as a member of the city council 

 and three terms as county clerk. He 

 has for years been an active member of 

 the S. A. F. and of the American Carna- 

 tion Society, so that he has a wider 

 acquaintance in the trade than ordina- 

 rily falls to the lot of one whose busi- 

 ness interests are so well centered. At 

 the last meeting of the Carnation So- 

 ciety he delivered a speech at the ban- 

 quet, to the toast "The Florist: He's a 

 Jolly Good Fellow, ' ' which showed a 

 rhetorical ability and a breadth of sen- 

 timent which placed the speaker in the 

 front rank of our after-dinner orators. 



A VISIT TO DUNLOP. 



It was with pleasure that I read your 

 article on John Dunlop's place, Toronto. 

 Last winter, after leaving Detroit and 

 the carnation show, I took a trip to 

 Canada, visiting Toronto, Brampton and 

 other places, and returning home via 

 Buffalo and Cleveland. Yet my visit to 

 Mr. Dunlop proved to be the star of the 

 entire trip, this one being well worth the 

 total cost of my travels.- Mr. Dunlop 

 proved so courteous, so obliging and his 

 place so full of good points that a 

 grower cannot leave him without acquir- 

 ing material benefit. I would style him 

 the prince of propagators, for he showed 



