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THE GARDEN M A G A Z I N E 
September, 1916 
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Society Notes and News 
{Continued from page 66) 
of Show (or Fancy) Dahlia. 4. Three blooms 
of Decorative Dahlia. 5. Three blooms of 
Peony-flowered Dablia. 6. Three varieties 
of Pompon Dahlia, 6 blooms of each. 7. 
Three blooms of one variety of any other 
section. 8. Collection of seedlings; seed 
planted this year; one bloom of each. 
These classifications are valuable for what 
they exclude, as well as for what they include. 
Class I does not permit a collection composed 
entirely of Cactus blooms to win over a col- 
lection composed of several varieties (three of 
Cactus, three of Show, three of Peony-flowered, 
and three of Single, for example.) You may 
show six Cactus and six Show — or one variety 
each of every section — but you may not show 
more than half your collection of any one sec- 
tion. Vary your number of varieties accord- 
ing to your club and your gardens; if 12 are too 
many, call for only 6; if your gardens are large 
ones, call for 12. 
Class 2 includes all Cactus types, under A. 
and B. of the Society’s descriptions. 
Class 3. The Pompons are excluded from 
this class, because they make such a pretty 
class by themselves, and should be differently 
staged; but this class includes both the ball- 
shaped, and the larger, looser flowers. In 
judging, the nearer the petals of the ball- 
shaped type come to covering the hack of the 
flower, the finer the bloom. 
Class 4 does not include such forms as Mrs. 
Roosevelt and Grand Duke Alexis, which come 
under Class 3. 
Class 5. For all purposes of an amateur 
show, this class may include the Duplex sec- 
tion; the line is hard to draw, and apt to cause 
confusion. 
Class 6. This is staged differently from the 
others, because the flowers are so small that a 
quaint, rather loosely arranged bunch of 
eighteen blooms of three varieties, in carefully 
contrasted colors, takes up little more room 
than three blooms of the larger types, and 
makes a much prettier showing than three 
stiff little wads in a vase. Remember, in 
judging, that they must be less than 2 inches 
across. 
Class 7. This will exclude all the above 
types, and include Single, Collarette, Anemone 
flowered, all types under Section 9 of the 
Society’s list, and any “freak” type an ex- 
hibitor may have developed. Of all these, 
the Century Singles are most often shown; no 
separate class is offered here for Singles, as 
there are not so very many fixed varieties, nor 
are they as satisfactory as some others, but of 
course a class could be opened if desired. In 
determining whether or no a bloom is a true 
Single (often a vexed question) remember that 
a single must not have more than 12 petals; in 
judging, 8-petaled blooms score over those 
with more, and a perfect single row of petals 
over those with a few overlapping petals 
“thrown in.” 
Class 8. Seedlings from “seed planted this 
year” are specified, because flowers raised from 
tubers saved from seedling plants of previous 
years (which are often shown as “seedlings”) 
are not seedlings at all, but merely “unclassified 
varieties.” Properly labeled, these may be 
shown in Class 7. 
Do not cut your blooms with 2-inch stems 
and poke them into a receptacle, or show them 
in test tubes. The length of stem on the in- 
dividual bloom (not the main stalk) should be 
counted as an asset in the score. Show all 
flowers arranged as gracefully and with as long 
individual stems, as possible, and always with 
a little foliage. You are an amateur, remem- 
ber, a lover of the flowers, not a professional 
striving for mere perfection of bloom. The 
bloom which holds up its head on a good stiff 
stem, scores over one which hangs its head, or 
nestles on a 2-inch stem among the foliage, 
even if the latter is the larger. 
Only three blooms are here called for in most 
classes, because more take up so much room, 
and because it is hard to get a larger number 
fit to show from the average garden. Adapt 
this tentative list, in all cases; if gardens and 
space permit, extend it; if not, curtail it. 
The following scale of points may help in 
judging: Size, 20. Form (examining each 
type by the standards set forth above), 40. 
Length of stem, 10. Stiffness of stem, 10.' 
Purity of color should score in a close contest. 
If you can get a professional judge, by all 
means do so; if not, and your judge is an in- 
experienced one, these simple rules in her hand 
may help her. In any case, if the exhibitors 
will bear them all in mind, the results will be 
far more satisfactory than if the show were 
staged and judged by the usual hit-or-miss 
amateur methods. 
Shedowa Garden Club. Mary Youngs. 
The Chester Valley Garden Club 
S OME of the work that is being carried on 
by the Garden Club of Chester Valley is 
of a decidedly interesting character. The 
Club covers a good deal of territory, the Valley 
being about fourteen miles long from Parkers- 
burg to West Chester. The club meetings are 
supposed to be once a month, in gardens in the 
summer and lectures indoors in the winter. 
The Club is particularly interested just now in 
getting tree planting on the Lincoln Highway. 
At this point the Highway is the old Lancaster 
Turnpike which runs straight up the Valley. 
Unfortunately, there are now laws in Penn- 
sylvania governing roadside planting, so the 
club members are waiting — and agitating! 
The Club has done some local planting of 
flowers; one hundred climbing Rose plants were 
given them to distribute amongst the public 
schools from end to end of the Valley. Two 
hundred and fifty Darwin tulips have been 
planted at a country parish church which is 
used as a community centre, and another 
similar planting was made at the Library in 
Down in grown, Pa. 
Frances McIlwaine, Secretary. 
The American Dahlia Society 
A mong the garden societies doing funda- 
mental work and meeting their share of 
success, the American Dahlia Society is 
rapidly making history. Organized in May, 
1915, by twelve enthusiasts, it now has more 
than 244 paid-up members; trial grounds in 
New York and Minnesota; held a successful 
exhibition last year and is now preparing for 
another at the Engineering Building in New 
York, in combination with the American 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, September 
26-28. More than $460 in cash prizes is 
offered, as well as special prizes of medals, c^s, 
silverware, etc., in 16 other classes. The 
Annual Meeting of the Society will be held 
during the exhibition and it is expected the 
initiation fee will be done away with, making 
the fee for associate membership ^i.oo and for 
active membership $2.00 a year. Certainly 
an organization that has accomplished so much 
in so short a time suggests great possibilities 
■ for the future. 
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