The Garden Magazine, November, 1920 
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Dahlia were but lightly demonstrated, yet Mr. Ailing’s prize 
arrangement shown in our opening illustration was a charming 
conception. 
Of course the old standbys like Hortulanus Fiet, Mina Burgle, 
Pierrot, Wotan, etc., etc., in nameless profusion were there for 
renewed acquaintance; of course in the comprehensive displays 
of such redoubtable champions as J. K. Alexander, Geo. L. 
Stillman, and John Lewis Childs, with C. Louis Ailing, Emily 
Slocum, W. D. Hathaway, Walker Bros., and Alfred E. Doty, 
the popular general leaders as well as the specialties of each 
were to be seen, but enumeration of any such at this time would 
be but a weariness to the flesh— and then catalogues tell the 
stories anyhow. 
Next year the Dahlia festival, it is rumored, will again be in 
New York, and the executive officers who so successfully carried 
through this year’s venture were re-elected at the annual meet- 
ing held Sept. 28th: R. Vincent, Jr, White Marsh, Md., Presi- 
dent; E. C. Vick, New York, Secretary. One change in the 
boards brings John Davies, San Francisco, Cal., as Vice Presi- 
dent. 
A GARDEN STRAIN FOR POPULAR USE 
Jean Kerr is a representation of a free flowering moderate- 
size flowered strain as a cut flower for the million (Burpee) 
