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Excerpt from Dahlias
With respect to the popularity of the Dahlia, attention may with advantage be directed to the fact that there has always been a remarkable steadiness about the fame of this ?ower. Its cultivators are, it may be assumed, enthusiastic, but their enthusiasm is of a quiet kind, and not, as in the case of that of some other ?owers, bubbling over and giving rise to the feeling that it will soon exhaust itself. In taking a retrospective glance over the hundred and odd years that have elapsed since the Dahlia was introduced from its Mexican home to this country, it becomes evident that, quiet though it may have been, enthusiasm as well as strenuous endeavour must have been forthcoming at an early period in the history of the Dahlia as a cultivated ?ower. The creation of the varied and beautiful types that are now to be seen in gardens could not well have been efiected with out something more than the carrying out, in a more or less mechanical manner, of the technical details essential to success. That something must have been enthusiasm, for without it there could not have been that constancy of pur pose, extending over a comparatively long period, which is an example to all who are engaged in plant improvement.
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