LEBANON, OHIO 
MINATURE DAHLIA RED HEAD 
How to Exhibit at the Dahlia Shows (Continued) 
ten, but four of them are not so very extra, use only the six. If class B calls for best twenty- 
five, be sure that your basket or vase is large enough to display them properly. Don’t crowd 
them. If class C calls for the best vase of poms and you have a dozen, but three of them are 
rather large—use only the tiny ones. For quality is what they are after in a show. Arrange 
all your flowers first as carefully and as calmly as you can. Don’t let it make you nervous and 
tired. Then when you are all finished go over your entires again and look at each one with the 
eye of the judge. Maybe you will see something wrong with it. Perhaps that single specimen 
isn’t in the right kind of a vase and maybe your poms are lovely, but need to be displayed in 
a larger bowl, they are not artistic. It might be that you have left a bud on that looks as though 
itmight wilt in a short time. Buds do that. Perhaps there is too much foliage on an entry. 
Well now you have done your best. Your flowers are all arranged and entered in their 
proper classes. And now right here comes the most important part of exhibiting at a Fall Show. 
If you have won you will be pleased and happy. If you haven’t won, be glad that the other 
fellow won. Your flowers were wonderful, you got a lot of fun out of it, and believe it or not, a 
dahlia show is one of the most thrilling and exhilarating experiences of life. 
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