This species is a half hardy perennial, with tuberous 

 roots like the common Dahlia; it grows from three to four 

 teet high, and requires the same treatment as that plant. It 

 may be raised from either seeds, cuttings, or divisions of the 

 old roots. The seeds should be sown about the beginning of 



Dahlias; the old 

 February and placed in th 



^^^^ moderate hot bed, and treated like seedling 



should be potted about the end of 

 , ^ ., ,* forcing-house, and the young- 



shoots when about three inches long should be taken off and 



Dahlia. They may be 



the same 



treated 

 planted 

 ning of June, and 



as th 



the open border, about the end of May or beg 



*u J r o"" ' ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ *^^ beginning of August 

 wu !u n ^^Ptember, or later if not destroyed by frost. 

 When the flowering is past the roots should be taken up and 

 either potted or packed in a box of dry old tan or mould, 



and then put m some dry place secure from the frost during 

 winter. ° 



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