INDEX 



ROOTS, lifting and storing, 102 

 starting into growth, 71 



SEEDLINGS, raising, 79 

 Shading exhibition blooms, 101 

 Show Dahlias 



Characteristics of, 2 1 



Development of, 19 



Exhibition varieties, 23 



Garden varieties, 28 



Prices of some new varieties, 20 

 Shows and showing 



Arranging blooms in wire frames, 1 06 



Baskets and vases, 107 



Blooms, perfectly developed, essen- 

 tial, 1 08 



Diversity of arrangement desirable 

 at exhibitions, 105 



Foliage, suitable, 107 



Names to be legibly written, 109 



Staging on boards, 108 

 Single Dahlias 



Cactus singles, 44 



for garden, 38 



Characteristics, 44 



Cutting the flowers, 45 



Dwarf singles, 44 



varieties for the gar- 

 den, 47 



Exhibition varieties, 46 



Garden culture, 45 

 varieties, 47 



Raising seedlings, 43, 46 



Single Dahlias 



Reintroduction, 39 



Site and soil for exhibition varieties, 84 

 Slugs, in 

 Soil preparation, 85 

 Staking the plants, 94 

 Storing the roots, 102 



THINNING the buds, 96 

 the growth, 96 



VARIETIES, select, for exhibition- 

 Cactus, 35 



Collerette, 68 



Decorative, 63, 64 



Fancy, 27 



Pseony-flowered, 59 



Pompon, 52 



Pompon cactus, 37 



Show, 23 



Singles, 46 



Varieties, select, for garden decoration- 

 Cactus, 36 



Collerette, 68 



Decorative, 64, 65 



Fancy, 28 



Paeony-flowered, 59 



Pompon, 52 



Pompon cactus, 37 



Show, 28 



Single, 47 



WATERING Dahlias, 97 



