DAHLIA DOPE SHEET 
The 1954 dahlia season found us growing on strange 
and unproven ground at our new farm location. An- 
alysis of the soil where the dahlias were to be planted 
showed it to be in fair shape, but we fortified it further 
with animal manure when we tilled the soil, and in mid 
season we gave it one top dressing of a complete com- 
mercial type fertilizer, 
We experienced some pretty tough hot weather in 
the early part of the season that caused some plants to 
harden off, but our marsh hay mulch saw us through 
this period of adversity with very few casualties. The 
weather during the show month of September was gen- 
erally tenable except for the show at Madison, Wiscon- 
sin. Strong winds and temperature above 90 prevailed 
just prior to this show forcing us to cut our blooms pre- 
maturely and take them into the basement for protec- 
tion. Following is the box score of the varieties that 
won for us during the season. 
ILLINOIS STATE FAIR SHOW AT SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
We showed the Six Most Perfect Blooms in the show 
which were Arthur Godfrey, Bunny, Florence Chadwick, 
Great Lakes, Miss Echo & Prairie Fire. 
BADGER STATE SHOW AT MADISON, WISC. 
We had the Largest Bloom in the show, which was 
Red Champion. 
We won the “Little Six” with Bond’s Memory, Bunny, 
Carnival, Juanita, Nick’s Orchid and Vigo Dandy. 
DAHLIA SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN AT 
MLWAUKEE, WISC. 
We won the “Little Ten’? with Almelo’s Glory, Bond’s 
Memory, Bunny, Daisy Ethel, Florence Chadwick, Helen 
Wilson, Juanita, Nick’s Orchid, Risa Grivell & Vigo 
Danay. 
We won the “Little Six” with Almelo’s Glory, Bunny, 
Daisy Ethel, Florence Chadwick, Juanita & Nick’s 
Orchid. 
We won the “Little Four’ with Bond’s Memory, 
Bunny, Lucknow & Zeke. 
We exhibited the Most Perfect B dahlia in the show 
— Bunny. 
We exhbited the most outstanding bloom in the show 
of a 1954 introducton — Miss Echo. 
CENTRAL STATES DAHLIA SOCIETY SHOW 
AT CHICAGO 
We won the “Big Six” (sixth consecutive year) with 
Croydon Brightness, Elaine Butler, Kelvin, Kidd’s Cli- 
max, Prairie Fire & Woy Woy. 
We won the “Little Ten” with Almelo’s Glory, Bunny, 
Carnival, Clarose, Daisy Ethel, Heart of Gold, Helen 
Wilson, Juanita, Margraten & Tetro. 
We won the “Little Four” with Bunny, Maureen Con- 
nally, Nick’s Orchid & Old Glory. 
We had the most perfect B bloom in the show—Bunny, 
and we captured the coveted Harry Franzen Memorial 
Award for the most perfect A bloom in the show with 
Searchlight. Our commercial display featuring dahlia 
arrangmnts by Mrs. Raymond Rohde, well known lec- 
turer and teacher in the art of flower arranging, was 
judgd best commercial display in the show. 
MIDWEST SHOW AT CINCINNATI, OHIO 
We exhibited the most perfect B dahlia in the show— 
Clarose. 
Our vase of 5 blooms of Almelo’s Glory was given the 
award of “Most Meritorious Exhibit in the Show.” 
Of course a lot of other fine varieties brought us 
numerous ribbons in the regular specimen classes of 
these shows, but space permits the enumeration of only 
the winning varieties in the special classes. We are 
pleased to be able to catalog and share most of. them 
with our customers in the list which follows. 
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