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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 1911 



Kaiserin Augusta Victoria dahlia, white "decora- 

 tive, "grown as a pot plant for indoor decoration 



planting and also am convinced that plow- 

 ing the fall before will be helpful. 



A CONCRETE VIEW 



The reply to the same queries from J. T. 

 Lovett, Little Silver, N. J., came in the 

 form of the following letter: 



I think that the chief cause of dahlias 

 not blooming is due to the fact that during 

 recent years a number of varieties have 

 been introduced that have very fine 

 flowers but are naturally shy bloomers. 

 Under the most favorable conditions these 

 varieties would bloom but sparingly at 

 best. I refer to such varieties as Master 

 Carl, Pius X, etc. 



In addition to this, we have learned that 

 the dahlia, in order to flower freely, re- 

 quires a porous soil, and if the soil is very 

 fertile the plants will develop too much 

 stalk and foliage and not bloom freely, be- 

 having in this manner as rapidly growing 

 young fruit trees. One firm known to 

 all found that it could not grow flowers 

 upon its dahlias at the home location, 

 the soil being of a cold, clayey nature. It 

 is now having its dahlias grown in another 

 county, where the soil is porous and light. 

 When going through the grounds last season 

 there were pointed out to me a number of 

 varieties that were blooming beautifully 

 there, but which would not flower at all 

 at the old place. 



It has been ascertained definitely that 

 upon clayey soil, where dahlias flower 

 sparingly, much improvement is effected 

 by a liberal addition of sand or coal ashes, 

 in fact, anything to make the soil more 



porous. I have learned from tests here 

 at Little Silver that varieties which 

 bloom sparingly upon very fertile soil 

 will give very much better flowers and 

 more of them upon soil that is only mod- 

 erately fertile. 



The Best Dahlias For The 

 Average Home Garden 



What with the varieties running up 

 into the hundreds, the catalogues of the 

 dahlia specialists are nothing short of 



bewildering to the home gardener who 

 must of necessity limit his enthusiasm 

 to a comparatively few well-chosen sorts. 

 The great dahlia shows likewise are be- 

 wildering; for how shall one choose be- 

 tween forms and color tones that are so 

 nearly alike? One certainly has proved, 

 by experience, to be better than another 

 for the average home garden; and if the 

 following four lists may not be accepted 

 as final, they at least offer a very valuable 

 line of suggestions to the pardonably 

 perplexed. 



THE BEST DAHLIAS OF ALL CLASSES FOR AN AVERAGE 



HOME GARDEN 



{Selected in twelve colors of each class) 

 E. STANLEY BROWN'S LIST 



COLORS 



FANCY 



SHOW 



CACTUS 



DECORATIVE 



White 



Souvenir 



La Favorite 



Schawn 



Perle d'Or 



Pale Pink 



Olympia 



A. D. Livoni 



Vesta 



Mme. Van den Dael 



Rose 



Progress 



David Johnson 



Mabel Tulloch 



La France 



Magenta 



T. W. Girdlestone 



Constant Varin 



Flieder 



Mme. Aymard 



Crimson 



Comedian 



Dr. J. P. Kirtland 



John Burns 



Jumbo 



Bright red 



Dazzler 



Merlin 



Starfish 



Auguste Nonin 



Deep red 



Dandy 



Crimson King 



Beacon 



Lord Lyndhurst 



Plum 



Frank Smith 



Victor 



Libelle 



Clarabel 



Lilac 



Geo. Barnes 



Chieftain 



Clara 



Blue Oban 



Light yellow 



Gaiety 



R. T. Rawlins 



Sterne 



C. W. Bruton 



Amber 



Matthew Campbell 



Norma 



Goliath 



Old Gold 



Deep yellow 



Mrs. Saunders 



Pluton 



Master Carl 



Mme. Mary Collett 



COLOR 



POMPON 



SINGLE 



PEONY FLOWERED 



White 



Snowclad 





White Century 



Queen Wilhelmina 



Pale pink 



Blush Gem 





Pink Century 





Glory of Baarn 



Rose 



L. P. Struthers 





Twentieth Century 



Dr. van Gorcom 



Magenta 



Portia 





Deegens Reese 





Wilhelm Petzold 



Crimson 



Crimson Queen 





Cleopatra 





Germania 



Bright red 



Scarlet Gem 





Scarlet Century 



Lady Saville 



Deep red 



Red Indian 





Cardinal 





Solfatare 



Plum 



Darkness 





Paragon 





Souvenir de Franz Liszt 



Lilac 



Tom Borrowdale 





Imperialina 





Mrs. Alistair Gilroy 



Light yellow 



Yellow Bird 





Aurora 





King Leopold 



Amber 



Klein Domata 





Emily Bark way 



Helen Baxter 



Deep Yellow 



Buttercup 





Yellow Century 



Geisha 



W. D. HATHA WAY'S LIST 



COLOR 



SHOW 



FANCY 



CACTUS 



DECORATIVE 



POMPON 



White 



Mme. Henri- 

 etta Scalabre 



Mr. Constant 

 Varin 



Snowstorm 



Mont Blanc 



Elaine 



Pale pink 



Mme. Marika 

 Anagnostaki 



Les Amour de 

 Madame 



Dorothy 



Lucy Fevrier 



Nerissa 



Rose 



Pink Dandy 



Mme. Ed. Noel 



Mme. Martin 



La France 



Pauline 



Magenta 



Thomas Hobbs 



S. Mortimer 



Libelle 



Jacques Welker 



Revenge 



Crimson 



Pleasance 



Hugh Austin 



Advance 



Auguste Nonin 



Palmira 



Bright red 



Lydia 



Mrs. N. Hall 



Ignea 



Monsieur 

 Henri Menier 



Bacchus 



Deep red 



Surpasse Col- 

 osse 





Memorial; 

 Marguerite 



Le Geant 



Red Indian 



Plum 



Gloire de Paris 



Queen Mes- 

 singer 



Purple Friar 



Papa Vietor 



Hercules 



Lilac 



Acquisition 



Prof Fawcett 



Mr. Seagrave 



Sylvia 



Achilles 



Light yellow 



Imperial 

 d'Austerlitz 



Mandarin 



Carodoc 



Mme. Victor 

 Vassier 



Mary Kirk 



Amber 



Norma 



General Grant 



Crepuscule 



Monsieur Burel 



Amber Queen or 

 Little Mabel 



Deep yellow 



Esmond 



Miss Ruth 



Glory of Wilts 



Yellow Colosse 



Orpheus 



