GOLDEN RULE DAHLIA FARM 
BOWL OF POMPONS 
How to Exhibit at the Dahlia Shows 
In order to win prizes at a Dahlia Show one must have fine Dahlias. Therefore the time to 
prepare is now. Get in touch with a good reliable grower and select the best varieties for 
exhibiting. Don’t neglect the medium sized Dahlias and the very important Minatures and 
Pompons. You will be very wise too if you have at least three plants of a kind. If you have 
only one of each variety it may not be in bloom at the time you are going to need it, so as an 
extra insurance select more than one of a variety. 
Then comes the fun—planting the precious roots or plants and watching them grow— 
caring for them all summer and helping them over the rough places in life. For the rain doesn’t 
always fall when you want it to, and often the sun gets very hot and the winds will blow a gale. 
And the dahlia plant is a good deal like we ourselves; it responds so quickly to a little kindness. 
But at last cool nights come and with them the shows. 
A couple of days before the show you are positive, “you wont have a thing.” But you will. 
You will have some lovely flowers. You always do. And anyway one has to take the best 
that he has in order to make the show a success. If the elements have been especially hard on 
you, you may be sure they are not just picking on you alone. Others will be in the same boat. 
So you will go out the evening before the show or in the early morning and cut your flowers. 
Put them in your cellar in clean glass jars, or clean crocks, deep in cool, clear water. 
At the show examine the entries very carefully. Be sure that each flower is entered in 
the proper class. If class A calls for the best six or more decoratives any color, and you have 
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