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this: Take unto yourself a wife who loves babies and 
flowers and your success is assured. 
The author of the article on pansies is the originator 
of “The Oregon Giants,” the strain of pansies which is 
capturing blue ribbons all over the country. 
DAHLIAS 
An interesting and profitable rotation crop for the 
gladiolus grower is the dahlia. This beautiful flower 
is very popular in landscape gardening because of its 
vigorous growth and luxuriant foliage, and as the ama¬ 
teur often meets with disaster in the storage of the 
tubers there is a constant demand for a new supply. 
The most rapid method of propagation is by cut¬ 
tings early in the spring. Large growers usually con¬ 
struct greenhouses especialy for this purpose. By 
sprouting the tubers early, many cuttings may be had 
and many more plants obtained than by the usual 
method of planting later in the open. 
Tubers and cuttings come true, but seedlings are al¬ 
ways different. New varieties are produced from seed. 
Seedlings will bloom the same year but a little later 
than tubers. 
If plants are to be grown from seed, great care 
should be used to get the very best. Dahlias grown 
from cheap seed are worthless, but when the very best 
seed is used, flowers of great beauty are often obtained. 
The tubers grow in a cluster, all attached to the cen¬ 
tral stem. It is often quite an art to divide these prop¬ 
erly. The novice will break the tubers off with great 
ease, leaving all the eyes on the old stalk, and then 
wonder why his tubers do not grow. In some varieties 
