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Use fertilizer sparingly, I 
do not fortilize until my dahlias 
VI 
When the soil is warm in 
the Spring, divide your clumps 
“se 
show bud. ThenI sprinkle a scant 
handful of fertilizer about a foot each division; one tuber is as 
from the stake, This is where your good or better than many. 
feed roots will be. I use a S=l0-6 To keep track of your 
(Nitrogen=phosphate=potash). I varieties moisten a tuber on 
feed my dahlias about every three each clump and print the name of 
weeks after the buds show. Work variety on it with an indelible 
in well pencil. 
If you want large blooms, Remember that dahlias do 
disbud. Relow is a diagram that pest in the open; they like sun- 
may help. I seldom disbud as [I shine, air, and cultivetion. 
like 16ts of (flowers. 
so that an "eye" will be with 
3 DAHLIA DONT'S 
Don’t plant berore the soil 
q Ss W arr 1@ 
Don't plant in wet soil. 
Don't sprinkle water at the 
base of plant. 
Don't plant under trees or 
among bushes. 
Don't let a erust form or 
weeds grow among your bushes, 
Don't fail to remove all 
blooms when past prime, 
Don't go wild over cvery 
new variety; many are not as 
good as the older tricd and true 
varictics. 

DAHLIA DO'S 
Get your soil in as fine 
eondition as possible before 
planting. | SEMI TEEN TENET TSE SET ESE SETE 
Keep top soil stirred; allow 
no crust to form or grass to grow Now friends if I ean help 
near plants. 
Water during dry spell only; 
on soil not on plant. 
Drive 4 stake about 6 inches 
from your plant and tie to it. 
Cut all old blooms off. The 
more blooms you cut judiciously, 
the more the plant will produce, 
‘aleching around base of 
plants when in. bloom conserves 
the moisture. 
A week or ten days after a 
killing frost, dig plants careful- 
ly, cut of stalk within three 
inches of clump, store in a cool 
placee I pack my tubers in boxes 
lined and covered with newspaper, 
Miaybe you have a better method. 
Keep out aires 
Examine roots occasionally 
during the winter; if any rot 
shows cut it out, and dust cut 
with sulphur. 
you further, let me knows. Just 
enclose a return postage stamp 
or envelope. 
i wish you every success In 
your gardening, whether you raise 
vegetables or flowers, 
Sineerely yours, 



