OF THE DAHLIA 
frost in fall marks the close of the growing season. 
Nevada, Idaho, and Wyoming have the shortest growing 
season, only ninety days. Vermont, Colorado, and 
Oregon come next, enjoying but one hundred and ten 
days. Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia have two 
hundred growing days. North Carolina, Alabama, and 
Mississippi two hundred and ten days. California has 
two hundred and forty growing days, while Florida 
leads all the States with two hundred and seventy-five 
days. The average available growing season, in days, 
per State is: Maine 120; New Hampshire 120; Vermont 
110; Massachusetts 145; Rhode Island 145; Connecticut 
145; New York 150; New Jersey 180; Pennsylvania 140; 
Ohio 170; Indiana 180; Illinois 180; Michigan 130; 
Wisconsin 140; Minnesota 130; Tennessee 190; Alabama 
210; Mississippi 210; Arkansas 200; Louisiana 220; 
Oklahoma 190; Texas 220; Montana 95; Idaho 90; 
Wyoming 90; Colorado 110; New Mexico 150; Arizona 
180; Utah 120; Nevada 90; Washington 130; Oregon 
110; California 240; Iowa 180; Missouri 180; North 
Dakota 100; South Dakota 120; Nebraska 140; Kansas 
175; Delaware 200; Maryland 200; Virginia 200; West 
Virginia 180; North Carolina 210; South Carolina 235; 
Georgia 250; Florida 275; Kentucky 180. 
Some garden lovers can hardly ever be induced to 
prune a bush, or destroy even a strawberry runner. It 
would be against nature to expect these delightfully 
enthusiastic folk (yet with a zeal not according to 
