INDEX 



APHIS, black and green, 112 



BEDS and borders of garden varieties, 



87 

 Blooms, staging exhibition, 107, 108, 



109 

 Buds, thinning, 96, 98 



CACTUS Dahlias 



Development of, 30 



Exhibition, varieties for, 35 



Flower garden, in the, 34 



Garden decoration, varieties for, 36 



Origin and introduction, 29 



Pompon cactus, 33 



for exhibition, 37 

 for the garden, 37 

 Collerette Dahlias 



Characteristics, 67 



Exhibition and garden varieties, 68 



Origin and introduction, 66, 67 



Positions in garden, 68 



Soil preparation, 68 

 Cultivation 



Buds, thinning, 96 



Disbudding, 98 



Garden varieties in beds, 87 



Lifting roots, 102 



Liquid manure, 97 



Manure, use of, 85 



Mulching, 98 



Planting, 88, 92 



Preparing the plants, 91 



Roots, lifting and storing, 102 



Cultivation 



Roots, starting into growth, 73 



Shading exhibition blooms, 101 



Site and soil for exhibition varieties, 

 83 



Soil preparation, 84 



Staking the plants, 94 



Storing the roots, 1 02 



Thinning the buds, 98 

 the growth, 96 



Watering, 97 

 Cuttings, preparing and rooting, J6, 78 



DECORATIVB Dahlias 



Characteristics, 60 



Exhibition and garden varieties, 64 

 giant varie- 



ties, 63 



Giant section, 61 



Manuring the soil, 63 



Origin and introduction, 6l 



Suitable positions, 63 

 Disbudding, 98 



EARWIGS, in 



Exhibitions and exhibiting, 104 



FANCY Dahlias 

 Characteristics, 21 

 Development of, 21 

 Exhibition varieties, 27 

 Garden varieties, 28 



GARDEN varieties in beds, 87 

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