Dahlias, there may be hundreds of varieties, too many to be tried at 
once; in that case try out some through this year and select out of them 
the best ten or second best ten; or as in Dahlias, select the best ten in 
each class, then next year retain the best from last year and grow in 
competition with them more new varieties. Raise a small quantity only, 
or single specimen of each, so it may not cost too much in time and 
space. 
Label carefully, but, better still, mark the name and location on 
paper and keep it safely in your desk. 
Make an alphabetical list of the varieties with space to enter op- 
posite each name, your comment upon it. To plant them in alpha- 
betical order will help in this. A few minutes per week will suffice to 
make the record. 
Record the good or bad points of each; which best and why. No 
two subjects need just the same memoranda, but, in general, for flowers 
some of the following points will be important: Hardiness, date of 
bloom, length of blooming period, vigor, color, size, stem, fragrance, 
etc. ; for vegetables : Quantity, quality, flavor, tenderness, vigor and 
especially the relative time from planting to "ready" when all planted 
at the same time, in the same soil. In fact, in all tests of annuals, 
either in flowers or vegetables, it is a more valuable test to plant all on 
same day and under the same conditions. 
In little known subjects it is best to give the name of the dealer. 
See, also, article in February Garden Magazine, page 54. 
IRote 
Readers who are lovers of Anthony Trollope's novels as well as 
of gardening will find great satisfaction in a recently published novel by 
Archibald Marshall, "The Old Order Changeth." This is a book in 
the very language of Trollope himself, and gardening is so interwoven 
with the tapestry of the English scene and story as to make an irresistible 
combination. . „ 
Louisa King, 
Garden Club of Michigan. 
Correction in List of Member Clubs Published in the 
September "Bulletin" 
The Garden Club of Somerset Hills, New Jersey: Secretary, 
Mrs. George R. Mosle, Gladstone, New Jersey. 
Correction in Committee on Book Reviews 
Mrs. Arthur Scribner, Bedford, New York. 
