NEW VARIETIES OF DAHLIA

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21908, 8 October 1936, Page 15

NEW VARIETIES OF DAHLIA

i OF SEEDLINGS IN BRITAIN V*i2L Bt COMMITTEE 0F ' SOCIET Y [‘ wisisroaimtT.) LStttei.' September 9. contributed no ™SlrowX 1 f w var ‘ eties to the by the National this week. Of that izVEaMKfI ■elected for award Surrey, to enyear the society’s HHBHL; Is called on to exvarieties of tae JifcrUninating la jWh&itors often have before an award is about eight timet average, go new to Wisley. from the varieties are planted.

and the flowers bloom under conditions which preclude the possibility of forcing. When the seedlings blossom. the next year, they are inspected again by the committee and the awards sro made, . . Of the 10 new varieties shown and selected at Westminster, this week, n of them were Dutch. Dahlia cultivation Is one of the many Dutch industries, ' and Dutch horticulturists find a constant and useful market m England, where the climate apparently lacks that element which produces the intense colouring and the thick stalks so popular in Holland. One of the most attractive new varieties sent from Holland this year was a vivid ted cactus. , _ An Interesting exhibit was_ a large block of ice weighing aboutt SJovrt. in which we«<mcMedM 'bloom# all types of British daWlasjwm we largest to - the smallest. This block is to be sent to the Newcastle and District Dahlia Society. New South Wales Australia, for exhibition in March, im* It was th ? A' Rt u£ C n Si0 S Q upon which dahlias tod been so treated and sent abroad. The ice block measured 3 f«et to**® 11- 2 feet high, jt was one foot thick.