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The Weekly Florists' Review. 



Apbil 29, 1909. 



BURLAP SAVES CROP. 



The accompanyilig illustrations are 

 from photographs made April 21 at the 

 establishment of John T. Conger, at 

 Hartwell, O., a suburb of Cincinnati, 

 over which heavy hail fell the day before. 

 Out of a total of 5,000 feet of glass Mr, 

 Conger lost 4,500 feet, or practically nine 

 panes out of ten. The illustrations show 

 how he covered his houses with burlap, 

 thereby saving what of the crop had 



Pot culture is to be preferred, 6-inch 

 to 8-inch pots being suitable. For larger 

 specimens with a number of bulbs in a 

 pot, 10-inch to 12-inch pots may be used. 

 An 8-inch pot will carry three to five 

 bulbs, according to their strength. For 

 compost use a rather heavy fibrous loam, 

 dried cow manure, broken charcoal and 

 sand; a little fine bone may also be 

 added. Plant the bulbs just sufficiently 

 in the soil to firm them ; never bury them. 



Conger's Greenhouses Covered with Burlap. 



been spared by the falling hail and glass. 

 Mr. Conger is seen standing at the end 

 of the houses. 



SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FLORISTS. 



Department of Plant Registration. 



Public notice is hereby given that E. 

 Y. Teas, of Centerville, Wayne county, 

 Ind., offers for registration the plant de- 

 scribed below. Any person objecting to 

 the registration of this plant or to the 

 use of the proposed name is requested to 

 communicate with the undersigned at 

 once. Failing to receive objection to the 

 registration, the same will be made three 

 weeks from this date. 



Name — Hydrangea cinerea sterilis. 

 Teas' Snowball hydrangea. 



Description — Collected from forest; a 

 sport from Hydrangea cinerea; growth, 

 upright, spreading; foliage, glaucous, 

 pointed, serrated; height, four feet; 

 flowers, snow-white. 



W. N. KuDD, Sec'y. 



April 23, 1909. 



AMARYLLIS JOHNSONII. 



Will you please give directions for the 

 culture of Amaryllis Johnsonii? 



L. G. 



Amaryllis Johnsonii is the oldest of 

 the hybrids, having been raised over a 

 century ago. Like all Of the family, it 

 requires to be kept growing from the 

 time it is started — usually February — un- 

 til the end of September, when it should 

 have the water supply gradually reduced 

 and be rested in a dry house or frame, 

 where a minimum temperature of 45 to 

 50 degrees can be maintained. Amaryl- 

 lises are sometimes planted out in beds 

 and lifted each fall. If well mulched, 

 they will make big bulbs under this mode 

 of culture, but they cannot become estab- 

 lished in pots before the flowering season 

 comes on. 



When starting amaryllis in early spring, 

 if they are in 7-inch or 8-inch pots, see 

 that the drainage is good. Pick away 

 the loose surface soil, give a liberal top 

 dressing and feed as the spikes appear. 

 We find potting once in two years is 

 sufficient. Start in a temperature of 60 

 degrees and spray daily, but do not over- 

 water until leaves and spikes appear. A 

 little bottom heat is an advantage. 



Many failures in amaryllis culture are 

 due to neglect of the plants after bloom- 

 ing. We have seen some growers lay 

 them on their sides, as they would poin- 

 settias. This is all wrong. The plants 

 should have a light, sunny house or 

 frame all summer, and if plunged, all 

 the better. Treated thus, they will give 

 returns commensurate with the labor be- 

 stowed upon them. C. W. 



OBITUARY. 



Charles Biederman. 



Charles Biederman, a member of the 

 firm of Schultz & Biederman, Thirty- 

 fourth street and Prospect avenue, Kan- 

 sas City, was stricken with a hemorrhage 

 while walking along Grand avenue about 

 4 o'clock April 13. He was assisted to 

 the office by Dr. Julius Frischer, 507 

 Grand avenue, where he died. Mr. Bie- 

 derman, whose home was at 3325 Pros- 

 pect avenue, was 70 years old, and had 

 lived in Kansas City forty-five years. 

 He was a noted hunter and was Kansas 

 City's oldest sportsman. He is survived 

 by his wife, a son William, three daugh- 

 ters, Mrs. Edith Eagles, of Leavenworth, 

 Mrs. C. A, Schultz and Mrs, J. Eedmond, 

 both of Kansas City, and sixteen grand- 

 children. 



Mrs. A. T. Peterson. 



Mrs. A. T. Peterson, wife of the florist 

 at Wheaton, HI., died April 20, the fu- 

 neral being held April 22. Both Mr. and 

 Mrs. Peterson were old residents and 

 widely known in Du Page county and 

 the obsequies were largely attended. 



Mrs. Gottfried Amiing. 



Laurette Amling, wife of Gottfried 

 Amling, died April 24 at her home at 

 Forest Park, Chicago. 



Mrs. Amling was 68 years of age. Her 

 illness had been of short duration, dat- 

 ing almost from the day that her hus- 

 band recently returned home from a 

 severe surgical operation in the Oak Park 

 hospital. Mrs. Amling was born in Sax- 

 ony. She came to Proviso, then a sub- 

 urb of Chicago, with her parents when 

 10 years of age. She was married August 

 15, 1858, and the golden wedding celebra- 

 tion was the subject of a news note in 

 the Eeview last summer. Mr. and Mrs. 

 Amling had lived their whole lives pi-ac- 

 tically on one spot and were widely 

 known in that section. Mr. Amling is 

 76 years old and with him survive nine 

 children, thirty-three grandchildren and 

 two great-grandchildren. Of the sons 

 three are well known in the trade. The 

 eldest is Albert F. Amling, president of 

 the company which bears his name, with 

 a large range of greenhouses at May- 

 wood, 111. The second son, Ernst C. Am- 



Greenhouses of J. T. Conger After Hail Storm. 



