Tuberous begonias, unlike dahlias and cannas, should be lifted without cutting the stems.
They can be stored with the dahlias and cannas and are not apt to shrivel, as the bulb is so large and fleshy.
Do not shake any more earth from the clumps of cannas and dahlias than is necessary in removing them from the ground.
If the single dahlias yet hold their own, those little gardens must now find themselves in the height of the floral fashion, with the unusual luck of the conservative old woman who "wore her bonnet till the fashions came round again.
I first saw single dahlias in some "little gardens" in Cheshire, five or six years ago.
He returned to the little garden, where the Commissary, as soon as he caught sight of him, asked him to point out the dahlias Signora Peppina had been praising.
The couch and the clothes were strewn with autumn flowers; cyclamen, dahlias and chrysanthemums.
See how I have kept poor Madame Pierrot gathering dahlias in her garden, and my comrade in adventure eating grapes upon a very stony seat.
He found himself drifting into the autumnal garden--the show of dahlias had never been so wonderful--in the company of Raeburn and the staff officer and a small woman who was presently discovered to be remarkably well-informed.
A narrow brick walk ran up to the house, edged with rows of dahlias just coming into bloom.
So she entertained her father with the miles of dahlias and the wonderful cat, so soft and furry and different from theirs, and with truly blue eyes, and who could understand everything you said to her.
There were long walks ofdahlias of every color and kind.
In planting the dahliasit would be well to dig a hole for each plant so deep that when the root is set it will be two or three inches below the surface of the ground.
Hot people with bunches of dahlias were bobbing to one another in nearly all the compartments.
Michael watched from the window Guy and the porter, the only figures among the wine-dark dahlias of the platform.
The bees buzzing round the wine-dark dahlias along the platform were once again audible: and close at hand was the hum of a reaper-and-binder.
There were great wine-dark dahliasin the gardens, and the bell was sounding for Evensong.
Ah, I told Birdwood to confiscate those abominable dahlias which wretched Mrs. Godbold will plant every year.
Dahlias of the Cactus variety, in different colours, could be planted at the back of the bed on one side of the steps.
They can be kept through the winter with the Dahliasand Gladioli.
He stood still for a moment behind a huge clump of tall sunflowers and gaudy dahlias to recover his breath and rearrange his coat, which had been mishandled quite a good deal by his friends in the excess of their joy.
Loud cheers from the audience, in the middle of which one of the little Smiths of Clarehaven had to be led out of the tent because there was some doubt whether in chewing one of the prize dahlias he had not swallowed an earwig.
The whites are Dahlias Constance and Henry Patrick, Pyrethrum uliginosum, the charming perennial Aster Colerette Blanche, a taller white or yellowish white Aster with rough stems and harsh-feeling foliage that I know as A.
It is a matter of great regret that the best kind of Dahlias for garden effect have lost favour with nurserymen, so that it is now difficult, if not impossible, to obtain from them the most desirable kinds.
In the back of this region dark claret and blood-red Hollyhocks still show colour, and scarlet Dahlias are a mass of gorgeous bloom.
Dahlias were planted out in May, and earlier still the Hollyhocks, quite young plants that are to bloom in August and September; the autumn-planted ones flowering earlier.
But other plants can be treated in the same way; the tall Rudbeckia Golden Glow, and Dahlias and Michaelmas Daisies.
A frame for Margaret carnations, early asters, and experiments in seedling Dahlias and chrysanthemums will be quite enough.
The Dahlias had also thriven, but then they are less particular, and if they live well will put up with more snubs than will a carnation.
Fancy" Dahlias are those having striped petals, and those in which the ground color is darker than the edges or tips of the petals.
Show" Dahlias are those with large and very double flowers of a single color, and those in which the ground color is of a lighter shade than the edges or tips of the petals.
Since then I have never attempted to start my Dahlias in the house.
Decorative Dahlias have broad, flat petals, somewhat loosely arranged, and much less formal than those of the show, fancy, or pompone sorts.
The dahlias they provided with pots, joking at the exclusiveness of this gorgeous flower which likes to have a separate house for each of its seeds.
Give me the old wallflower, the rose, violet, and carnation, and let others be stocking their beds with dahlias and chrysanthemums, which have no smell to remind you of the old country.
I want to put in quite a good deal this spring with a thought to next fall, dahlias and astors and cosmos and salvia in plenty.
She was in her own room which overlooked the backyard and Auntie's beds of salvias and dahlias still braving the first light frosts.
Of flowers, there were dahlias of the richest colours, and the most varied hues; some produced by plants that retain all their ancient stature, and others by dwarfs which seem to have lost nearly every character of the dahlia but its beauty.
There is still lingering mignonette; plenty of Japanese anemones, their pure white faces pearled with the heavy autumn dew; single dahlias also, variously bright.
It would have been easier to walk among them with that farewell feeling had the mignonette lain sodden and dead, and the dahlias been frost-shrivelled up into black sticks.
The great fault of the majority of dahlias already in cultivation is the tall habit of the plants, but here we have dwarfness, a profusion of finely formed flowers, and varied and attractive colors.
We had the pleasure a short time since of receiving a photograph of this dwarf section of dahlias from Messrs.
So you really need not bother yourself about going to her; you can simply decide to do it, and that will be quite sufficient; and you can stay here and hold these long-stemmed dahliasfor me as I cut them.
Dick bowed his head and fixed his eyes upon the dahlias on the ground.
Said the other-- "My husband declares those dahlias alone couldn't be matched for thirty dollars, and that some of those gladiolus must have cost three or four dollars apiece.
Why, the--the dahlias you exhibit are alone sufficient to make your name cling to one's memory.
Now, about those two unique dahlias of yours," began the Colonel; "you really must allow me to come and see them.
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