Z A N T ’ S 
WILDWOOD 
GARDENS 
Tips from a Long Experience 
When you fertilize your dahlias, especially when grown 
from green plants, be sure and spread the fertilizer in a 
ring around the plant from 12 to 18 inches from the stalk, 
rake in lightly and then water well. This will make the 
roots go out after the plant food and you will have a 
better clump of nice long straight roots when dug. 
If you have had trouble in keeping roots over winter on 
account of drying out, try this out next season. About 
Aug. 1st give each plant a tablespoonful of Muriate of 
Potash and again on Sept. 1st. Be sure and keep it a good 
foot away from the stalks and off the leaves as it will 
burn the foliage. Just scatter a ring of it around the plant 
and water it in. It will give you larger blooms, much bet¬ 
ter stems and puts the istarch in the tuber or roots so 
you will have much less trouble in getting good roots and 
keeping them over winter. 
If during a hot season you have some variety that does 
not seem to grow, where the leaves remain small and the 
plant gets bushy, cut off all but two or three stalks, trim 
some of the leaves off to thin it out, then spray well for 
sucking insects and once a week or ten days give each 
plant a teaspoonful of Vigoro. By the time the nights get 
cool the plant will have taken on new life and give you fair 
bloom, but if the plant is stunted on account of disease or 
from poor stock, then my advice is dig it up and burn it. 
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