. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. D AH 189 D A H Silvio, Bubras, cherry red tipped with white. Surprise, Oakley, purple, distinctly tipped with white. Village Maid, purple, tipped with white. Viscount Ressigueur, Du6?"as, purple tipped with white, large, full, superb flower. "The dahlia is very variable, sporting roots dying during the winter ; —Gard. Chi'on. Propagation by Division.—" A good criterion for planting this root," says a writer in the Gard. Mag., " is about the time of planting early potatoes for a first crop, but no sooner. They g
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. D AH 189 D A H Silvio, Bubras, cherry red tipped with white. Surprise, Oakley, purple, distinctly tipped with white. Village Maid, purple, tipped with white. Viscount Ressigueur, Du6?"as, purple tipped with white, large, full, superb flower. "The dahlia is very variable, sporting roots dying during the winter ; —Gard. Chi'on. Propagation by Division.—" A good criterion for planting this root," says a writer in the Gard. Mag., " is about the time of planting early potatoes for a first crop, but no sooner. They grow well in a rich light soil of almost any kind. In dividing the root, it is ad- visable to leave at least two eyes to from its true colours, but as often re- each plant, cutting through the neck or turning to them. Knowing this, let the following facts, with regard to new kinds of dahlias, be borne in mind be- fore condemning them the second year:— crown. Ihe spring is the most pre- ferable time for dividing them, al- though some do it on taking them up in the autumn. ' Those who possess a hot-house 1. That the seedling plant is much , should put each plant into a pot of six debilitated by propagation ; and there- ' or eight inches in diameter, with some fore the flowers are rarely as good the j good rich mould, so as the crown may second season as they are the first and just appear at the top of the pot; then subsequent to the second. [ place them in the green-house, where "2. That the best flowers are ob- they will soon make good plants : and tained from those plants struck from when all danger from frost is over, they the first cuttings produced by the mo- may be turned out into holes prepared ther-plant, notwithstanding that they for them. In this manner, after being are seldom as strong as the cuttings so long confined, they will grow most that are afterwards produced. ! luxuriantly. " 3. The exciting the roots by means " A common cucumber-frame may
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