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SEPTEMBER 



MODERN DAHLIAS 



The month of September is a season for the enjoyment of 

 flowers full more than for their culture. Our appreciation 

 of anything depends very largely upon our knowledge of it. 

 Consequently, if we are to take the greatest delight in the 

 September blossoms, we need to know them intimately. As 

 we learn to distinguish the leading types and varieties by 

 name we come to appreciate more fully the peculiar charac- 

 teristics of form, color, or fragrance that gives to each the 

 grace and interest we prize. 



An excellent way to learn to know a flower is to reproduce 

 it in some sort of drawing. Consequently, the pages for the 

 garden booklet of this opening month of the school year may 

 well be a record with pencil, brush, or pen of the leading 

 classes of the prominent autumn flowers. As you become 

 familiar with the choice treasures of the school garden, you 

 will plan quite naturally to grow some yourself another year, 

 and this is a good season to secure seeds, bulbs, or slips of 

 the sorts that please you best. 



One of the most remarkable of recent developments in the 



growing of plants is the renewed interest in the cultivation of 



the dahlia. A few years ago this flower was seldom found 



outside the old-fashioned gardens, where the large globular 



varieties, of the type called the Show Dahlia, were chiefly in 



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