Sow these seeds in flats in the greenhouse or hot-bed any time 
after March 1st and pot off the seedlings which can stay in three-inch 
pots for two months or more without injury. 
After May 20th plant these out in rows three feet apart in the 
moist part of the vegetable garden, placing the plants eighteen inches 
apart in the rows. It is not necessary to stake, pinch back, disbud, 
water or fertilize the plants. They grow like weeds, and by July 1 5th 
you will have plants larger those those grown from tubers and beginning 
to bloom. 
So far I have had no flowers like those from which I saved seed. 
I have a half dozen unlike any dahlias I have ever seen and well worth 
the little trouble I have taken, even though I get nothing more worth 
keeping. 
My seed was saved from "Mrs. Seybold," "Dorothy Peacock" 
and "Pink Century," which were planted several hundred feet away 
from white, scarlet and red varieties, but I have as many of these 
varieties as of the pinks. 
Growing dahlias from seed is really a most diverting pastime. 
Elizabeth C. Ritchie, 
Amateur Gardeners' Club, Baltimore, Md. 
From another dahlia expert comes the suggestion that all seeds be 
saved from peony-flowering varieties. A very large proportion of the 
seedlings will come single and give charming cut flowers for the house 
at a time when cut flowers are very scarce. 
In naming and saving the tubers formed, it is necessary to re- 
member that a variety must be grown for three years before the type 
is fixed. 
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or Bmarpllis from Seeo 
If you would grow Amaryllis by the score, grow them from seed. 
In the fall plant a bulb in a six-inch pot of porous soil, leaving the 
crown of the bulb exposed. If you give it a reasonable amount of 
water you should have flowers in midwinter. Artificially fertilize the 
flowers and they will readily set hundreds of seeds. As soon as ma- 
ture, plant these seeds in sandy soil, when they will quickly germinate 
and in six weeks you should have little plants with four or five leaves. 
These seedlings require no period of rest and planted in the cool green- 
house, blossom the second winter, while the original bulb will flower 
gayly each year and also make offsets. 
The most interesting to grow are the Vittata and Johnsonii 
Mrs. Schuyler Skaats Wheeler, 
Garden Club of Somerset Hills, New Jersey 
