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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



11 



the winter, either for retailing or iii 

 various forms of decoration. 



W. 11. T. 



NEPHROLEPIS IN SUMMER. 



Where jtlnrited in bcucluis, nephrol 

 epis are now making an abundance of 

 nice runners. Give the beds a ligiit 

 surface dressing of well decayed cow 

 manure. It improves the j^lauts won- 

 derfully. Let anyone who labors un- 

 der the delusion that ferns do not re- 

 <(uiie or appreciate manure try this and 

 be convinced. Ne|)hrole[)is should not 

 l)(> heavily sliaded. Of course, they 

 want souic shade on the glass, but just 

 enough lO break the sun's rays, with- 

 out nuikiuii the house a|i|iear dark on 

 Cloudy days. 



If you have no sjjarc hcuidi to plant 

 out your nejihrolcpis in and would still 

 like to (1(> so, try them under coldfranu^ 

 s.'islics, either jilunged or |)lanted out. 

 Man'* other ferns will also make far 

 better growth there than in the green- 

 houses. Where adiantnnis are grown in 

 I'lanu's, snails are oci-;isi(inally trouble- 

 some and it is iiest to ^ratter some air- 

 flaked lime over the ground and then 

 s(r;it(di it o\'er with a line rake before 

 jilacing the ferns in it. 



NEPHROLEPIS NEUBERTI. 



At the s|iriug llower show, whicii 

 iiMik place at Paris, France, from May 

 L'-} to 'M, the firm of L^. Xeubert, Wands- 

 lMd\, (iermauy, exhibited for the first 

 lime its new introduction of ferns, 

 \e|dirole|)is Neuberti, a sjxut from the 

 Xejdii-ok'iiis Whitmani. This new va- 

 iiety is described as having the same 

 Liood qualities as Xephrolepis Wliit- 

 luani, but as l>eing much liner in foliage 

 and as carrying its fronds (juite up- 

 right. This variety has Ikhmi tested by 

 I!. xS'eubert for some years and was 

 ^idwn siib' by side with the most 

 |iroininen1 of recent ue[ihrolepis, such 

 as X. magnifica, Anierpohlii, Lycopo- 

 • loides, Todeaoides, etc., and has proved 

 itself iu many respects superior to all 

 iliese and |iossessing the best qualities 

 as a commercial fern. It has found tiie 

 inanimous apjiroval of french gar- 

 iencrs and amateurs and was decorated 

 \ith a silver medal. 



TULIPS NOT FLOWERING. 



I'nder separate cover I am sending 

 on a tulip. Can you tell me why it 



lid not flower? 1 notice in taking them 

 1» that those that did not llower started 



loni the center of the bulb and pro- 

 need only one large leaf, like the one 

 ni lused. I notice that the flowering 

 ulbs start from the root of the bulb. 



"hey were j)lanted in the fall of 1908 

 ud flowered finely last year. This 

 ear about twenty per cent flowered. 

 ^ J. E. 



You do not state the variety of tulip 

 • liich flowered unsatisfactorily. As a 

 -eiioral rule, the early flowering sec- 

 ion, geiu'rally classed as bedding 

 ulips, do poorly if left in the ground 

 1 second year. These should always 

 "e lifted shortly after flowering, heeled 

 a the ground in a partially shaded 

 -pot and later lifted and stored in flats 

 >vhen the tops have matured. If treated 

 'hus, a much larger proportion will 

 'lower the following season than if left 

 ■ n the ground. Early tulips rarely are 

 ■IS 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 undisturlied, if given a good 

 mulch of rotted numure each tall. These, 

 when lifted, also give much more satis 

 factory returns tli.an the earl\- sort- 

 a second season. It is diflScult to give 

 the precise cause for your i)nll>s not 

 flowering, but your case is not at all an 

 unusual one. C. W. 



JULIUS ROEHRS, SR. 



Julius Roehrs, Sr., founder of the linn 

 of Julius Koehrs Co., at liutherford, .\. 

 J., was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 

 1844. He served three years in the bo 

 tanical gardens at Kiel, llolstein, and 

 went from that city to Erfurt and Dres- 

 den. 



In ISO.") he came to America, having 

 been apjiointed head gardener fur Mr. 

 IJenan, of Jersey City, who at that time 

 was beginning to form a collection of 

 orchids. In ISGS Mr. Lienan returned to 

 (iernmny, and his whole collection of or 

 (diids and stove plants was sold. 



Mr. Koehrs then took over Mr. Lie- 

 nan's greenhouses and started business 

 as a general florist. He also built some 

 greenhouses on Prospect street. .Fersey 

 City Heights, where he grow roses and 

 carnations for his retail trade. He did 

 not remain in the retail business, how- 

 ever, for more than flve years. When 

 the Lienan greenhouses were torn down 

 Mr. Roehrs 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 



111 li'nt herl'ord, \. .)., niid removed his 

 iMinplete estaldislinu'Ut to that place. 

 "Ii''i'' it is now located. lie (■onlinue<l 

 lo ^i\e his chief attention to the grow- 

 ing; of hybrid p(M-petnal ro-es until the 

 I'loliis in that line were curtailed bv 

 the a]ip(>arance ol' the American lieanty. 

 ulii.-li fiuced the elder varieties to take 

 a I'ack se.at. At this juncture he liegan 

 the handling of palms, stove nnd <'reen- 

 honse plants, and to his many other vm- 

 rieties of stock he also gradually added 

 orchids. 



At present he justly prides himself in 

 liauiig one of the linest and most com- 

 plcie <'onunercial collections of orchids 

 on this continent, occui)ying ;t raiiiic of 

 fourteen houses. 



lie married, in 1S77, a German lad\ - 

 Mi-s Schroeder. He has seven children, 

 live boys and two girls. The two eldest 

 son-. .Inlins ;iinl Ivhuuird. ;ire now ;iss,, 

 ciated with him in business. 



TO DESTROY MOLES. 



We shouhl like to know wlint is the 

 li.'st poison to kill nudes. We .ne not 

 - essful with trajis. |;. x. 



1 have not be(>n successful in destrnv- 

 itig moles l)y p(dson. 1 luive ixrcut 

 faith in the Reddick mole trap. Xon.' 

 of the little rodents can ji.ass thrtnigh 

 tliis Miicl live. Xo other mole trap 1 

 ever tri(>d nt all ecjuals this one. Per 

 haps some other readers, who are in 

 the hal>it of fighting these little ani- 

 mals, have hail better success in the 

 use of poison and their experiences 

 wonhl bi' widcoine. C. W. 



