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THUR.SDAY,  MAY  11.  1903. 
The  Dahlia  Analysis. 
he  Dahlia  season  of  1902  w-as 
one  of  the  latest  on  record.  And 
no  wonder,  considering  the  cold, 
wet,  and  gloomy  character  of 
the  summer,  and  that  Dahlias 
are  required  to  make  the  whole  of 
their  growth  during  the  three 
months  of  that  season.  At  all  events, 
they  have  to  do  so  in  order  to  be  ready 
for  the  National  Dahlia  Society’s  Show,  which 
is  usually  held  during  the  first  week  in  Sefj- 
tember.  A  brief  retrospect  of  the  weather 
of  that  abnormal  summer  may  be  of  interest. 
The  season  had  scarcely  begun  when  there  set 
in  a  fortnight  of  bitterly  cold  weather  for  the 
time  of  year,  accompanied  in  many  parts  of 
the  country  by  occasional  ground  frosts  at 
night.  Then  followed  the  only  genial  period 
of  the  three  months,  which  lasted  until  about 
the  middle  of  July.  But  after  that  time  low 
temperatures,  with  cloudy  skies  aud  persistent 
and  heavy  rains,  prevailed  until  the  end  of  the 
summer.  It  is  quite  true  that  Dahlias  delight 
in  cool  and  moist  conditions,  but,  on  the  other 
hand,  if  this  type  of  w'eather  be  long  continued 
the  blooms  are  never  as  perfect  or  refined  as 
when  there  are  intervals  of  dry  weather  and 
bright  sunshine,  to  allow  the  new  growths  to 
become  to  a  certain  extent  matured.  Espe¬ 
cially  is  this  the  case  with  the  Shows  and 
Fancies.  I  have  given  the  foregoing  particulars 
in  order  to  show  how  impossible  it  was  after 
such  a  summer  to  expect  anything  like  a  large 
or  representative  display  of  Dahlias  on  the 
2nd  and  3rd  of  September,  the  days  fixed  for 
the  National  Dahlia  Society’s  exhibition  at  the 
Drill  Hall  in  Buckingham  Gate.  This  was  much 
to  be  regretted,  as  it  happened  to  he  the  first 
occasion  when  oue  of  the  Society’s  grand 
exhibitions  of  Dahlias  had  been  arranged  to 
be  held  in  London  itself. 
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