LARGE BLOOMS 25 
Uncle Sam, Emperor, Copper King, Sherwood, and 
President Wilson. The blooms that were in best con- 
dition upon the second day of the show were Golden 
West, Mrs. Edna Spencer, Mrs. Garl Salbach, F. W. 
Fellows, Purity, Louise Finer, Sunkiss, and Edith 
Slocombe. 
Visit the dahlia fields of amateurs and commercial 
growers. Choose the varieties you plan to exhibit next 
year from this year's blooms and from the plants if 
possible. If your selection is from cut flowers decide 
only upon those that show long stems. It is not safe to 
add to one's collection from blooms that are exhibited 
with short stems, for there is a likelihood that the plant 
does not produce long stems, and a short-stemmed 
bloom will not win exhibition prizes. The selection 
of varieties that really produce exhibition blooms, with 
fine full flowers, upon long, strong, straight stems is 
half of the success you crave. Planting, cultivating, 
fertilizing, disbudding, and cutting the blooms at the 
right time and caring for them afterwards is the other 
half of prize taking. Those who v/in plan a long time 
in advance, and order the day by day life of their plants 
to that one end. 
Prize winning, gigantic, exhibition blooms are 
produced by plants growing in deeply cultivated ground. 
Your competitors are certain to dig their dahlia plots to a 
depth of two feet: if you will trench three feet you will 
beat them, provided you equal your rivals in all other 
