DAHLIA, DELPHINIUM 347 



Even those who are not very successful with DahUas should 

 keep on investing a little each year in "new ones." In time we may 

 come across the kinds which do well under conditions not favorable 

 to older sorts. 



From Tubers and Seed 



Dahhas can be grown from the tubers or from seed. The 

 tubers will overwinter nicely in the Potato cellar and if you want 

 to get a lot of plants out of a few tubers place them in a 50-deg. 

 house on a sunny bench with just a little bottom heat and you will 

 soon have aU kinds of cuttings which will root easily. Pot them 

 up afterward and, if you want to, you can again use the tops of 

 the young plants for cuttings. 



Always try to keep your sorts properly labeled and don't carry 

 along such as have proved worthless with you, no matter how well 

 they may do elsewhere. It just means waste of time. Even if you 

 only want the plants to sell during Spring, it would be wrong to 

 sell customers in your locality sorts which don't do well with you. 



Sometimes we can grow the single sorts where the double ones 

 won't thrive. In that case plant them, for to have plants fuU of 

 blossoms is after aU far more important than to have a great big 

 bush of some excellent variety with nothing on it but leaves and a 

 few buds with inch long stems, opening the day before we usually 

 get the first heavy frost. 



Seed sown in February or March will usually give you flower- 

 ing plants the first season. With us, in a rather cool Summer with , 

 a nice rainfall, we get a fair number of flowers, but during a hot, ' 

 dry Summer they usually don't do much. For all of that we reaUze 

 that Dahhas are an important class of plants, and where they do 

 weU they should be grown. 



DAISY, AFRICAN ORANGE 



See Dimorphotheca 



DAISY, RLUE 



See Agathxa 



DAISY, ENGLISH 



See Bellis 



DATE PALM 



See Phcenix 



DELPHINIUM (HARDY LARKSPUR) 

 It is only of late that the florist has begun to notice these grand peren- 

 nials and appreciate their value as cut flowers. They are vnthout 

 doubt, among the very best of all hardy plants and on account of their 

 long flowering period, easy culture and splendid keeping quahties as 

 cut flowers, they are not far from being considered ahead even of 



Peonies and Phlox. 



