. The dahlia; a practical treatise on its habits, characteristics, cultivation and history . aturally. Ifthe first two pairs of shoots hadbeen removed as instructed andshown in illustrations on pages 30and 31, the third pair at the bottomwould have developed, instead of remaining practically dormant. You would have the large longstem bloom with two more coming on. This is no theory, but a thoroughly practical method car-ried out successfully for years in growing on a large scale the finest commercial flowers, not tospeak of the hundreds of exhibition collections. Of course with a shorter joint
. The dahlia; a practical treatise on its habits, characteristics, cultivation and history . aturally. Ifthe first two pairs of shoots hadbeen removed as instructed andshown in illustrations on pages 30and 31, the third pair at the bottomwould have developed, instead of remaining practically dormant. You would have the large longstem bloom with two more coming on. This is no theory, but a thoroughly practical method car-ried out successfully for years in growing on a large scale the finest commercial flowers, not tospeak of the hundreds of exhibition collections. Of course with a shorter jointed grower, there are more eyes or young shoots to have no idea how disbudding will help you to success. Imagine growing chrysanthemumsor carnations without disbudding! Any one can grow Dahlias of exhibition quality if they will digest these remarks, studyplant requirements and then act accordingly. Disbudding does away with those immense plantsthat evaporate the moisture from the soil so rapidly that during hot dry weather the buds blastin spite of all the water you gi^e THIS IS THE JOHN WANAMAKER PLANT AFTERTHE FIRST DISBUDDED FLOWER HAD BEENCUT AND THE NEXT TWO PAIRS OF SHOOTSOR BRANCHES HAD COME INTO FLOWERAND THE OTHER BRANCHES DIS-BUDDED. THE PHOTOS SPEAKFOR THEMSELVES THE DAHLIA. 33
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