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in so doing we are sacrificing many future flowers, but as the 
season advance ay of the first frost approaches, we do 
it with a clearer conscience, feeling that the s we are removing 
would be li ° t by the frost before th ul 
have a chance to open. Withered flowers should be removed, 
both to improve appearance of the plant and to conserve th 
vigor of the plant by removing the necessity of ripening seeds, 
hat is, unless you wish to ripen seeds an them f 
year's planting. But, as I have already said, you do not know 
a re going to get when you plant a dahlia seed except 
that too many new ones, often no better than cheaper pre-existing 
varieties, are now being offered for sale. 
ahlias, we have said, are easily grown, but it must be ad- 
mitted th hey have their dis seases, like other organisms. 
handed down from 
ne seaso aie the next in the erous roots and also a little 
less often in plants tl slips taken from diseased 
