. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 505 time my plants are well along and look wiry and toiiRh. Then I feed them with diluted nitrate of soda, applied twice a ; The fact is, the longer onr grows dahlias the less he knows about them. If merely exhibition blooms are sought for, it is perhaps a fact that rooted cuttings, strongly forced to a terminal bud, afford the sure way to success, though even that is disputed. But to get a good garden crop of (lowers of more than average merit depends upon so many factors tha
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. igii. The American Florist. 505 time my plants are well along and look wiry and toiiRh. Then I feed them with diluted nitrate of soda, applied twice a ; The fact is, the longer onr grows dahlias the less he knows about them. If merely exhibition blooms are sought for, it is perhaps a fact that rooted cuttings, strongly forced to a terminal bud, afford the sure way to success, though even that is disputed. But to get a good garden crop of (lowers of more than average merit depends upon so many factors that, so far as the writer knows, there is no sure road to success. The best dahlia grower of my acquaintance, the one that uniformly, season after season, has a profusion of solid, perfect blooms, grows them in a level, sheltered place, having a heavy clay underneath. One very wet season this gentleman lost a great many fine plants on account of their getting wet Another year he planted a lot of good plants in a dry hillside, and in this situation failed to make good. So the dahlia grower has too much heat and too little heat, too much wet and too little wet, too much feeding and too little feeding to contend against, and these factors are more or less compli- cated by early and late planting, and with good or liad luck in hitting the right weather conditions after the planting is done. We have all of lis read learned dis- quisitions from Kngiish growers of re- pute, telling what to do and what not I to do; some of whose directions, if I followed literally, would ruin all the dahlias in the United States. Their damp, cool island has one kind of cli- mate; New England has quite another; 1 the Rocky Mountains have another. The Pacific coast climate is different from either, but more analogous to British conditions than to ours. Yet from all these soured we get words of seeming wisdom, and sometimes we have dogmatized a little ourselves in '? the days when we thought we knew
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