Dahlia Shows 173 



To the uninitiated, the placing of exhibits at a 

 flower show as scheduled here is simple enough 

 — ^maybe it is if you know how. 



Study the rules carefully, even before studying 

 the schedule. Entries must be in before a certain 

 date. Exhibits must be in place before a certain 

 hour on the great day. Exhibit cards must be 

 displayed with each vase, and every variety 

 must be distinctly labelled with its correct name. 



If you have three blooms of Pierrot, for in- 

 stance, which has reverted, as it frequently does, 

 from its correct variegated form, to a plain 

 colour, do not exhibit them under any circum- 

 stances. If labelled "Pierrot" they will be 

 judged according to the standard of the correct 

 Pierrot and will certainly lose. 



Do not exhibit a decorative dahlia which shows 

 a centre, either, among decoratives or among the 

 peony-flowered types. It will also be judged ac- 

 cording to the correct type of decorative, and 

 disqualified. 



Most people become colour blind in their ex- 

 citement just before a show. I have known a 

 gardener to .place Attraction in the class of pink 

 dahlias. As it happened, the three blooms were 

 the finest on the table — of perfect form, of equal 

 size, and had they been placed in their proper 

 class, would have scored 100 per cent. But 



