Show Amateurs rs Get HintsOn Hints On Dahlias By MAUD CHEGWIDDEN Telegram Garden Editor or I have hare never known n an amateur gardener yet who hasn't attended the autumn flower lower shows vs and simply simply sim aim ply gone gone green with envy when he saw the mighty Inch 10 dahlias which had carried off blue ribbons and who hasn't sworn inwardly then and there that next year hed he'd have some just as big or know the reason why Yet very often he doesn't have them simply because he forgets to buy the tubers and only thinks of ot it again when the next flower shows come the tho following year ear Can eRn Buy Tubers Here is your chance then to learn learn- earn which these enormous dahlias dah dah- Has lias are to buy the tubers and later to plant and care for lor them according according accord accord- l ing g t tb Hoyle so as to produce prize blooms For several years Robert D. D Casto of ot Holladay made everyone catch his lis breath in awe with the Mount Olympus always allays the largest dahlia In n the show at Salt Lake City This wL was s a striking deep red flower ver of VIr Mr Casto's own naming And by bythe bythe bythe the w why way y talking of ot original new dahlias we have a number of ardent ardent ardent ar ar- ar- ar dent local amateur growers who have produced d seedlings which might well make the wOrl worlds world's s 's best dahlias sit up and take notice When hen you cr arc a real dahlia fan you become lost to all all' sense of de decency decency decency de- de and think n nothing thi g of ot snatching snatching snatch- snatch ing ng food away from froni your family so that hat you can pay fay ay 10 or so for a tuber uber of oC a new Introduction Five dollars to the rabid dahlia grower growers Is s a mere bagatelle and as for one which costs a 8 mere mete 1250 pooh hell he'll scarcely give it garden room If It you ye yearn rn to be In this class clas of growers you might try a root of U ll Gold which is u new dahlia in the formal decorative type that that is with willi petals arranged neatly neatly neaty neat- neat ly y and formally open and not or fluted In fluted in a rich golden yellow with blooms which may measure measure as much as 11 inches across If you like heres here's your chance Then there thre is Forest Tire Fire Fire another newcomer mer with red rd and yellow coloring as its name i in intimates intimates in- in with blooms 10 inches in diameter and of great depth also A single t tuber b r o of of each of these would cost you 5 Even the type of dahia dah- dah li ia ha may produce these outsize blooms too There Js is Grand Soleil dOr d'Or with petals of ot yellow which assumes carmine tints as the lower flower ages and there is Salmon Giant a a true cactus dahlia dahUa of salmon almon pink as large as a dinner plate Down to Earth But to leave these aristo aristocrats rats and get down to earth and those cheaper dahlias which members of the hoi poJ polloi l such as myself bu buy you ca cant can't t find Ind a a. lovelier dahlia anywhere than Jerseys Jersey s Beauty a fine large arge pink which h you can buy for fr the spall sum urn of two bits anywhere Jerseys Jersey's Beauty always gives gives' a good account of f itself and If my choice were to tobe tobe toe be e narrowed to a a single dahlia I thinK hink it would be this this this-or or maybe Mrs I. I DeVere Warner This last named is similar la lit form and habit habito to o New Jerseys Jersey's Beauty but is a charming harming shade of lilac Waldheim Sunshine is the dahlia for or you to grow J If yellow is your pet et color It gives blooms as large arge as any 10 inches if it well cared for and is inexpensive and reliable City of f Trenton lenton a charmer if It ever there was one comes corries in a delicious blend of apricot and rose QUERIES Dirt Gardener Salt Lake City writes Last fall I planted five dwarf junipers and this spring only one of them seems alive The others are are are- looking brown-looking and brittle when I t touch u h them Can you give me any advice about them hem 1 rm Ans rm afraid they are dead Did you let them go into the winter dr dry Evergreens are sure to die in such case They must freeze when wet |