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NOVEMBEB 1, 1906. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



1543 



conservatory 15x20, for his mother's 

 plants. At that time tfiere was no flo- 

 rist in Tiffin and cut flowers were un- 

 known to the many uses for which they 

 are now so largely employed. Six years 

 later Mr. Ullrich bought a piece of 

 ground in the suburbs and *built two com- 

 mercial houses, one 12x50, the other 25x 

 50. Now he has about 60,000 feet of 

 well kept glass, growing roses, carna- 

 tions, violets, chrysanthemums and a few 

 bedding plants. Ninety per cent of the 

 product is sold wholesale to the florists 

 of the vicinity. He recently has intro- 

 duced a new scarlet geranium named for 

 his home town. 



Mr. Ullrich was a participant in all 

 local activities and did much to widen 

 the floricultural interests or his locality. 

 At the same time he earned for himself 

 a place high in the regard of his neigh- 

 bors, 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. 

 ana of the American Carnation Society, 

 so that he has a wider acquaintance in 

 the trade than ordinarily falls to the lot 

 of one whose business interests are so 

 well centered. At the Detroit meeting 

 of the Carnation Society he delivered a 

 speech at the banquet, to the toast "The 

 Florist: He's a Jolly Good Fellow," 

 which showed a 'rhetorical ability and a 

 breadth of sentiment which placed the 

 speaker in the front rank of our after- 

 dinner orators. At the St. Louis and 

 again at the Washington convention of 

 the S. A. F. he was a candidate for the 

 presidency, and, had he been elected, 

 would have filled the office to the credit 

 of himself and the society. 



The funeral will be held at Tiffin on 

 Friday, November 2. 



Mrs. Joseph Kaiser. 



Mrs. Susanna Kaiser, wife of .Joseph 

 Kaiser, died October 26, at 721 East Sev- 

 enth street, Belleville, 111., aged about 50 

 years. She is survived by her husband 

 and several sons and daughters. 



WORMS ON FERNS. 



I am having trouble with worms eat- 

 ing the leaves of ferns. They are green 

 and black worms, about one and a quar- 

 ter inches long. I do not know how to 

 get at them an<l they are destroying the 

 tips of the fronds. L. M. 



This is a rather unusual trouble for a 

 fern grower, but the most likely remedy 

 to try would be to dust the plants thor- 

 oughly with powdered hellebore. The 

 hellebore being a vegetable poison, is less 

 liable to injure the foliage than Paris 

 green, or any other metallic poison, and 

 from the fact that fresh powdered helle- 

 bore is the best remedy for the currant 

 worm, it is probable that it would give 

 good results in this case. 



W. H. Taplin. 



LILIUM MULTIFLORUM. 



Last week I received and potted up my 

 7x9 longiflorum multiflorum and placed 

 them in a cool house, running 54 to 55 

 degrees under a bench, covering them 

 again with moss. Kindly advise me what 

 treatment is best for them for Easter 

 forcing. J. H. 



We would have advised you to put 

 your lilies when first potted into a cold- 

 frame, and to leave them there until the 

 end of November, or until you feared a 

 hard frost. 'Broadly, it seems to suit 



Lewis Ullrich. 



these lilies best to get them rooted 

 before giving them any top heat. As it 

 is, and you now have them under a 

 bench, leave them there; but lift them to 

 the full light before the leaf growth is 

 the slightest bit drawn up. Fifty-five 

 degrees at night will suit them well up 

 to the first part of February. By that 

 time you will be able to judge whether 

 they will want an increase of heat. The 

 proper time to do the heaviest forcing 

 with these Japan lilies is the last four 

 weeks before flowering. They then will 

 endure a high temperature and respond 

 quickly. W. S. 



HYAQNTHS. 



Will you kindly tell me if I can plant 

 my hyacinths for Easter in flats, and 

 then transplant into pots when wanted 

 at Easter time, and get as good results 

 as if planted in 4-inch pots at oncef 

 If so, how much less room would they 

 occupy? We are crowded with spring 

 plants at this time of the year, and can- 

 not find room for all our bulbous stock 

 next year, as Easter is so early. 



H. C. O. 



We presume you allude to the large 

 bulbs of the Dutch hyacinths. The 

 metnod suggested is followed by many 

 growers with perfect success. We have 

 made up paps, or other arrangements, 

 from flats of hyacinths, Boman hya- 

 cinths, narcissi of several sorts, and tu- 

 lips, and have before today given it as 

 our opinion that there was no fraud 

 about it. The flowers will last just 



about as long, and in every way be as 

 satisfactory, with this advantage, that, 

 in making up a pan of tulips or nar- 

 cissi from the flats, you can select those 

 of uniform height and there will be no 

 blanks. 



In the case of Dutch hyacinths, 

 which would now be put into 4-inch 

 pots and placed outdoors, how much 

 Dench room will you save? In my opin- 

 ion very little, not worth considering; 

 and, as you have more time now than in 

 the spring, that will offset the small 

 amount of bench room you will save. In 

 the first place, the Dutch hyacinths for 

 Easter never want more than two weeks 

 in the greenhouse. They are almost ready 

 to bloom outdoors. If planted now in 

 flats, and brought in two weeks before 

 Easter, you would want to get them into 

 the pots within a few days of bringing 

 them in, so where is the saving? While 

 all these bulbs can be transplanted with 

 success, we would advise you to adhere 

 to the old plan and pot them at once, 

 and you will be glad of it when busy 

 spring comes around. W. S. 



St. Louis, Mo. — The Eggeling Floral 

 Co. is sending out an artistically printed 

 invitation to attend the "most beautiful 

 chrysanthemum exhibition in St. Louis, 

 on and after October 24." 



Aurora, III. — The Illinois Guano Co., 

 capital $10,000, has been authorized to 

 incorporate to manufacture fertilizers. 

 Of the incorporators, F. H. Staudt has 

 been secretary of the Natural Guano Co. 



