The Garden Magazine, April, 1922 



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Special Announcement 



We have just published 



The Amateur's Book of the Dahlia 



By MRS. CHARLES H. STOUT 



DAHLIAS have by no means reached the 

 peak of their popularity. This is the 

 belief of Mrs. Charles H. Stout, the 

 well-known dahlia amateur, of 

 Short Hills, N. J., a successful 

 cultivator, student, and raiser 

 of meritorious novelties. There 

 are many amateurs in America 

 who have had notable achieve- 

 ment in the hybridizing of dahlias, and their 

 number is increasing year after year in the 

 widespread interest in this flower. 



A large number of flower amateurs are real- 

 izing that the dahlia is worthy of their time and 

 the necessary patience. Mrs. Stout has assembled all of 

 her personal information on the dahlia and her experience 

 of some twelve years, during which she has raised such 

 famous flowers as Sunshine, Emily D. Renwick (a decora- 

 tive dahlia which is pictured in full color as the frontis- 

 piece of Mrs. Stout's book), Gertrude Dahl, J. Harrison 

 Dick. These are only a few of the many she has shown 

 at the Annual Dahlia Show of the Short Hills Garden 

 Club, and at the National Dahlia Society's exhibitions. 



Moreover, Mrs. Stout has written of the dahlia in an 

 engaging manner, with touches of appreciative humor; 

 particularly she speaks with authority, and her informa- 

 tion is presented concisely, thoroughly. "Of the late- 

 blooming perennial flowers, where 

 is there any," asks Mrs. Francis 

 King, in her introduction to this 

 exceptional book, "to surpass 

 the dahlia? Where is there a 

 more majestic habit, a finer 

 foliage, in form and color, a 

 more glorious range of color in 

 the flowers themselves?" With 

 such a subject, Mrs. Stout has 

 looked into every phase of the 



The Amateur's Book of the Dahlia 



By Mrs. Charles H. Stout 



At Bookstores, $3.00 



fascinations of dahlia growing. No gardening 

 book has been conceived with more complete claims 

 upon popularity and practicability. 



These are the subjects, in separate chapters, 

 which Mrs. Stout has dwelt upon in her study 

 of the dahlia : History ; Early Dahlia Culture ; 

 Situation; Soil, Composition and Preparation; 

 Propagation (in which chapter many of her 

 secrets of dahlia raising are revealed with 

 careful explanations and sketches, of which 

 Figures I and II, this page, are examples ; 

 (Figure I, Average clump of 

 Tubers ready to be separated. 

 Figure II, Green cutting as 

 taken from sprout) ; Breeding, 

 Planting, Staking, Fertilizing ; 

 Cultivating, Watering, Disbranch- 

 ing, Disbudding; Dahlias in 

 Tubs; Frost, Lifting and Storing; 

 Pests and Remedies ; Cutting, Packing, 

 Shipping ; Dahlia Shows ; Color Com- 

 binations in the Garden and as House 

 Decorations ; Varieties ; Classification and Chart. The 

 charts give comprehensive analysis and information of 

 all popular and leading varieties of the dahlia now in 

 cultivation, such as, class, name, originator, color, habit, 

 whether for garden, cut flower exhibition service, and 



supplementary notes by Mrs. 

 Stout. 



As Mrs. King has said, in the 

 book's introduction, "The mir- 

 acle of hybridization is still ours 

 ; the path is only ex- 

 plored for a little. On that path 

 this book should prove a torch 

 to light the way." Mrs. Stout's 

 practical book will be indispens- 

 able to all dahlia growers. 



Mail orders will be filled 



Doubleday, Page & Co., 



Garden City, New York 



