DAHIylA. Ill 



The worst trouble in growing- strawberries is that they need so 

 much water. It takes 27,000 gallons to put an inch of water on an acre 

 surface. 



I do not like the hill system. It is a great deal of work and trouble. 



MR. WHEL.I/AMS. If we are growing- strawberries with the idea of 

 never taking- trouble we will not do much of anything-. With hills I 

 can keep weeds down ; it is impossible to do that with the matted row 

 system. I would advise people to try the hill system. Let them try a 

 few plants and they will soon find out for themselves. As regards 

 trouble of snipping- off runners if you have a large quantity of straw- 

 berries there are machines. Buy automatic runner-cutters. 



The Dahlia. 



BY A. F. ANGUS. 



The Dahlia when well grown is one of the noblest and 

 most beautiful flowers in cultivation. No garden flower has 

 improved more in the last ten years by careful selection and 

 cultivation (if you except probably the sweet pea), and no 

 flower is so little known, in its perfection, in our northern 

 country, or indeed in Canada. A bowl of well grown Dahlias, 

 on a drawing room table with its wealth of gorgeous coloring 

 and back ground of rich green is a sight to charm the senses 

 of any lover of the beautiful. The old stiff, round, honey- 

 combed flower of our grandmothers has been superseded by 

 an endless variety in shapes and coloring, the most beauti- 

 ful of these, resembling the chrysanthemum in form, far 

 surpassing them in richness of color and delicacy of shading, 

 from the finest flesh tints to the most brilliant scarlet. The 

 perfect Dahlia, however, is not obtained without great pains, 

 as to grow it well and to have it in perfection during our 

 short summer, requires constant and industrious labor from 

 April to September. 



The Dahlia, as you are aware, is a tuberous-rooted plant, 

 the root somewhat resembling a sweet potato. It can be 



