CLIBRANS' LIST OF DAHLIAS FOR 1908. 
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CONTENTS. 
PACK 
Bedding Dahlias 27 
Book on *i 30 
Cactus it 16 
Collarette .■ 31 
Collections of Dahlias .. 2 
Fancy Dahlias 10 
Pseony-flowered Dahlias 32 
PACK 
Pompon Dahlias li 
H Cactus ii H 
Prices of ■■ 0 
Bequisites for Dahlia 
Growers 33 
Show Dahlias 7 
Single ii 28 
An Alphabetical Index of every variety contained in this List 
will be found on pages 36 to 40. 
Brief Hints on the Culture of Dahlias. 
TREATMENT OF PLANTS ON RECEIPT.— Dahlias 
are usually sent out as young green plants in 3-inch pots. 
If, upon receipt, the plants are found to have suffered during 
transit from drought or similar causes, they should be 
watered and kept close until recovered. The plants should 
then be re-potted into 5-inch or 0-inch pots and placed in a 
cold frame protected by lights. Allow- a little ventilation at 
first, and increase gradually each day until the lights are 
removed altogether during the day, to be replaced only at 
night to protect from frost or cutting winds, the aim being 
to make the plants as strong and sturdy as possible. 
Towards the end of May or early in June (according to the 
season and district) they may be planted out where they 
are intended to bloom. 
SOIL AND PLANTING. — The best soil for Dahlias is 
undoubtedly a good, deep, fairly heavy loam. Where this does 
not naturally exist, the soil should be deeply trenched during 
the winter ; if light and of poor quality, good, well-rotted 
manure should be freely added. When planting is done, if 
the weather is cold, the’ plants should be protected from the 
cutting winds by placing a few beech twigs or small branches 
of spruce upright in the soil at a little distance from the plant, 
a stake should also be placed to each plant, and the plant 
made secure by tying with raffia or some other soft material. 
CULTURE for EXHIBITION or GARDEN DECORA- 
TION. — If it is intended to grow flowers for exhibition, the 
shoots should be thinned out at an early stage. Those 
remaining should , be attached to separate stakes in order 
that the growth does not become too crowded, and so obstruct 
light and air. A mulching with well-rotted manure will be 
of great advantage to the plants ; also if the weather is at 
all dry liberal supplies of water or liquid manure should 
be given at intervals. All side or weakly buds should be 
removed, and only the strongest allowed to develop. The 
preceding remarks apply also to Dahlias grown for garden 
decoration, except that the necessity for disbudding does 
not arise, neither do the growths require thinning to the same 
extent ; in fact, the Single and Pompon sections are better 
and more effective if all the growths are allowed to remain. 
