A Little Book of Modern Dahlia Culture |
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allow amateur American Dahlia Society ammonia AMUN begin better blooms cent classes clay clump Color Remarks Variety condition cover crop crops crown cultivation cut flowers Dahlia plant DAHLIA SHOW Decorative depth develop disbudded disease drains evaporation exhibitor eyes fertilizer flat florets flower buds flower shows foliage frost green manuring green plants ground grower growing grown growth healthy heavy soils humus Hybrid Cactus inches keep leaves light soil ligulate lime loam manure method MODERN DAHLIA moisture mulch never nicotine nitrogen Originator Type Color packed Peony pest petals phosphoric acid plant food Plants propagated potash pots produce propagation Remarks Variety Originator result roots rule sand sandy soil season seed seedlings selected shaded shipment shoots short stems soon spading fork stake surface thrips trial gardens tubers Type Color Remarks usually Variety Originator Type wanted weather young plants
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Page 96 - May 27, 1910, for the purpose of "stimulating interest in, and promoting the culture and development of the gladiolus; to establish a standard nomenclature; to test out new varieties, and to give them such recognition as they deserve; to study the diseases of the gladiolus, and find remedies for same; to disseminate information relating to this flower; to secure uniformity in awarding prizes at flower shows...
Page 12 - It thus contains enough sand to make it warm and pervious to air and moisture ; enough clay to render it moist, tenacious and conservative of manures ; enough limestone to furnish calcareous material and to decompose organic matter, and lastly, sufficient humus to assist in supplying the alimentary needs of the plant and to aid in maintaining the carbonic acid in the interstitial air of the soil.
Page 96 - ... vice-president; Fred S. Heal, secretarytreasurer. There were approximately twenty-five members present and the meeting was guided by the advices of William T. Davis and the late Charles W. Leng who long continued to aid the Society in every possible way. The purposes of the Society were: "To unite all persons, without regard to sex, occupation or profession who feel an interest in flower culture; to arrange exhibits of flowers; to work together in a spirit of cooperation to the end that public...
Page 48 - I started my first seedlings about 1869. I did not then have time to employ artificial fertilization, therefore I proceeded differently. I omitted from my collection all flowers of inferior quality, leaving only the strictest selection of the most beautiful varieties. "I harvested and sowed, as soon as they ripened, all the seeds which were produced. It was always thus that I proceeded whenever I wished to secure seedlings. I had at the time one of the most complete and well-chosen collections. I...
Page 26 - ... understood by recollecting that perhaps threefourths of the whole organic matter we bury has been derived from the air—that by this process of ploughing in, the vegetable matter is more equally diffused through the whole soil, than it could ever be by any merely mechanical means —and that by the natural decay of this vegetable matter, ammonia and nitric acid are, to a greater extent, produced in the soil, and its agricultural capabilities in consequence materially increased. Indeed, a green...
Page 12 - ... to furnish calcareous material and to decompose organic matter; and sufficient humus to assist in supplying the food requirements of plants and to aid in maintaining; the supply of carbonic acid in the interstitial air spaces of the soil.
Page 12 - As a matter of fact, however, a cubic foot of sand will weigh more than a cubic foot of clay, the terms "light" and "heavy" referring to consistency rather than to density. A "mellow...
Page 96 - ... stimulating interest in, and promoting the culture and development of the gladiolus; to establish a standard nomenclature; to test out new varieties, and to give them such recognition as they deserve; to study the diseases of the gladiolus, and find remedies for same; to disseminate information relating to this flower; to secure uniformity in awarding prizes at flower shows, and to give one exhibition each year.
Page 12 - A gravcl loam and a chalk loam are loams of which gravel and chalk respectively are noteworthy ingredients. A marl is a clayey soil containing from 5 to 20 per cent. of carbonate of lime. Should the limestone present exceed 20 per cent.
Page 15 - Of the various substances required by all crops to sustain their growth, there are four of which the available supply in the soil is liable to run short so that the deficiency has to be made up by the cultivator.