Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1923 — Page 7

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DAHLIAS PROFITABLE IN HOME GARDEN

Bv W. R- BEATTIE Extension United States Department of Agriculture. LOVERS of flowers of the more striking types have had their desires gratified the past few years in the wonderful development of the dahlia. While this flower is not adapted to growing everywhere and does best in moderately cool or temeprate climates, it makes a good showing and often gives a reasonable profit from th sale of cut flowers. Present varieties include flowers from the small compact type a#l the way to the big. spreading, loosepetaled sorts that are extremely attractive. In the fall, about the time the frost kills the dahlia plants, the stems are

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cut off just above the ground. The tubers or roots are dug and left in a cluster for storage. Dahlia roots can be kept under much the same conditions as Irish potatoes, that is, they should be kept reasonably cool so they will not sprout and should not become so dry that they will shrivel. A storage cellar where potatoes are kept is generally fairly good for keeping dahlia roots. In order to keep the roots from drying out by exposure to the air they may be packed in a shallow box of sand which is moistened just a little from time to time but not enough to cause the roots to rot. Thinning Out In the spring of the year the roots are taken out and divided, one root being planted where each hill ot

dahlias is wanted. Sometimes each root will throw up several stems and if too many appear, part should be thinned out.. The plants can be brought into bloom earlier by placing each tuber in a pot and starting the plants In the house, then setting them in the open ground after the weather has become warm. The same method can be followed where a hotbed or coldframe is available for starting the plants. Pots five or six inches in diameter will be needed as the roots are sometimes rather large. Dahlias should be planted on good, deaply prepared soil and the individual pboits placed at least three feet apart in the row and the rows about four feet apart. A stake should be driven by each hill and the stems kept tied to these stakes, as they break easily with the wind. Cultivation The cultivation of dahlias is Just about the same as for tomatoes or most any of the garden crops. In extremely dry weather they will need

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watering. A. little mixed fertilizer sprinkled over the surface and worked into the soil about the time they begin to bloom will add vigor to the plants. Mulching with fine, strawy manure or sweepings from the poultry house is ajfio an advantage. Where dahlias are grown as border plants and the flowers not cut for sale or for use in the house the old flowers should be kept nipped off before they fade, so the vigor of the plants will go into the formation of new flowers. The best effects in growing dahlias are obtained where they are either planted in a mass of one color only or else the combination of colors in the group planting is carefully considered. The colors vary from light cream or almost white to the deepest red and bronze. NEXT:. How bulbs may be planted for pleasure or profit. Chickens Are Gone Twenty chickens were missing today from the coop at the home of Harry H. Ochiltree, 6840 CentraJ Ave. The chickens were valued at 820.

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