June 30, 1910. 



The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



11 



the winter, either for retailing or m 

 various forms of decoration. 



W. H. T. 



NEPHBOUIPIS IN SUMMER. 



Where planted in benches, nephrol- 

 epis are now making an abundance of 

 nice runners. Give the beds a light 

 surface dressing of well decayed cow 

 manure. It improves the plants won- 

 derfully. Let anyone who labors un- 

 der the delusion that ferns do not re- 

 quire or appreciate manure try this and 

 be convinced. Nephrolepis should not 

 be heavily shaded. Of course, they 

 want some shade on the glass, but just 

 enough to break the sun's rays, with- 

 out making the house appear dark on 

 Cloudy days. 



If you have no spare bench to plant 

 out your nephrolepis in and would still 

 like to do so, try them under coldframe 

 sashes, either plunged or planted out. 

 Many other ferns will also make far 

 better growth there than in the green- 

 houses. Where adiantums are grown in 

 frames, snails are occasionally trouble- 

 some and it is best to scatter some air- 

 slaked lime over the ground and then 

 .scratch it over with a fine rake before 

 placing the ferns in it. 



NEPHROLEPIS NEUBERTI. 



At the spring flower show, which 

 took place at Paris, France, from May 

 24 to 31, the firm of E. Neubert, Wands- 

 bek, Germany, exhibited for the first 

 time its new introduction of ferns, 

 Nephrolepis Neuberti, a sport from the 

 Nephrolepis Whitmani. This new va- 

 riety is described as having the same 

 good qualities as Nephrolepis Whit- 

 mani, but as being much finer in foliage 

 and as carrying its fronds quite up- 

 right. This variety has been tested by 

 E. Neubert for some years and was 

 grown side by side with the most 

 prominent of recent nephrolepis, such 

 as N. magnifica, Amerpohlii, Lycopo- 

 doides, Todeaoides, etc., and has proved 

 itself in many respects superior to all 

 these and possessing the best qualities 

 as a commercial fern. It has found the 

 unanimous approval of IVench gar- 

 deners and amateurs and was decorated 

 with a silver medal. 



TULIPS NOT FLOWERING. 



Under separate cover I am sending 

 you a tulip. Can you tell me why it 

 did not flower? I notice in taking them 

 up that those that did not flower started 

 from the center of the bulb and pro- 

 duced only one large leaf, like the one 

 enclosed. I notice that the flowering 

 bulbs start from the root of the bulb. 

 They were planted in the fall of 1908 

 and flowered finely last year. This 

 year about twenty per cent flowered. 



J. E. 



You do not state the variety of tulip 

 which flowered unsatisfactorily. As a 

 general rule, the early flowering sec- 

 tion, generally classed as bedding 

 tulips, do poorly if left in the ground 

 a second year. These should always 

 be lifted shortly after flowering, heeled 

 in the ground in a partially shaded 

 spot and later lifted and stored in flats 

 when the tops have matured. If treated 

 thus, a much larger proportion will 

 flower the following season than if left 

 in the ground. Early tulips rarely are 

 as good the second year as the first. 



On the other hand, a large proportion 



Julius Roehrs. 



of the late flowering Cottage, Darwin 

 and other tulips succeed finely for sev- 

 eral years undisturbed, if given a good 

 mulch of rotted manure each fall. These, 

 when lifted, also give much more satis- 

 factory returns than the early sorts 

 a second season. It is difficult to give 

 the precise cause for your bulbs not 

 flowering, but your case is not at all an 

 unusual one. C. W. 



JULIUS ROEHRS, SR. 



Julius Eoehrs, St., founder of the firm 

 of Julius Eoehrs Co., at Eutherford, N. 

 J., was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 

 1844. He served three years in the bo- 

 tanical gardens at Kiel, Holstein, and 

 went from that city to Erfurt and Dres- 

 den. 



In 1865 he came to America, having 

 been appointed head gardener for Mr. 

 Liienan, of Jersey City, who at that time 

 was beginning to form a collection of 

 orchids. In 1868 Mr. Lienan returned to 

 Germany, and his whole collection of or- 

 chids and stove plants was sold. 



Mr, Eoehrs then took over Mr. lie- 

 nan's greenhouses and started business 

 as a general florist. He also built some 

 greenhouses on Prospect street, Jersey 

 City Heights, where he grew roses and 

 carnations for his retail trade. He did 

 not remain in the retail business, how- 

 ever, for more than five years. When 

 the Lienan greenhouses were torn down 

 Mr. Eoehrs moved entirely to Jersey City 

 Heights, where he made a specialty of 

 growing hybrid perpetual roses under 

 glass. With these he was remarkably 

 successful. 



When again compelled to look for a 

 new site, he bought a large tract of land 



in Eutherford, N. J., and removed his 

 complete establishment to that place, 

 where it is now located. He continued 

 to give his chief attention to the grow- 

 ing of hybrid perpetual roses until the 

 profits in that line were curtailed by 

 the appearance of the American Beauty, 

 which forced the older varieties to take 

 a back seat. At this juncture he began 

 the handling of palms, stove and green- 

 house plants, and to his many other va- 

 rieties of stock he also gradually added 

 orchids. 



At present he justly prides himself in 

 having one of the finest and most com- 

 plete commercial collections of orchids 

 on this continent, occupying a range of 

 fourteen houses. 



He married, in 1877, a German lady — 

 Miss Schroeder. He has seven children, 

 five boys and two girls. The two eldest 

 sons, Julius and Edouard, are now asso- 

 ciated with him in business. 



TO DESTROY MOLES. 



We should like to know what is the 

 best poison to kill moles. We are not 

 successful with traps. E. N. 



I have not been successful in destroy- 

 ing moles by poison. I have great 

 faith in the Eeddick mole trap. None 

 of the little rodents can pass through 

 this and live. No other mole trap I 

 ever tried at all equals this one. Per- 

 haps some other readers, who are in 

 the habit of fighting these little ani- 

 mals, have had better success in the 

 use of poison and their experiences 

 would be welcome. C. W. 



