For the month of September we had selected the flower signifying endurance. For this month we have taken flower called "Nobility".

Spiritual Name	Nobility "The incapacity for any pettiness of feeling or action."
Botanical Name	Dahlia Cav. Spp.

Common Name

Dahlia

General Description

Nobiltiy is a tender tuberous perennial herb with rough, heart shaped leaves. The flowers are very large (over 16 cm), fully double, with deep wine red colour. They are composed of broadly cupped ray florets symmetrically arranged in a dense rounded cushion like head. They are borne singly. Nobility can be used for flowering beds, border plantations and flower cuttings.

Nobility can be propagated by soft cuttings taken in spring or by careful division of the tubers. It thrives best in rich soil with good drainage. And it needs adequate water supply. At planting time, colonies of aphids can rapidly develop on the tips of plants and it is advisable to give a precautionary spray with a systemic organic insecticide. Once the young plants have become established, they grow rapidly, and it is important that the new growth is securely tied. A common method of supporting growing dahlia plants is to insert two further canes at an angle to each plant and then tie twine around the three canes at intervals to form an inverted funnel which will hold the plants firmly despite the strongest winds. An alternative method is to use wire or plastic netting with a six inch mesh tied horizontally to the canes about two feet above ground. The plants grow through the netting and are secure against the strongest winds.

The Mother on Nobility

Here are some very striking quotations from the Mother on Nobility.

…..nobility which makes it impossible for you to act like an ordinary person, which infuses into you a bravery, a courage which may almost be taken for rashness because the attitude, the experience demands that you face danger without showing the least fear.

For one who has developed a truly refined taste will, because of this very refinement, feel incapable of acting in a crude, brutal or vulgar manner. This refinement, if it is sincere, brings to the being a nobility and generosity which will spontaneously find expression in his behaviour and will protect him from many base and perverse movements.

To speak always the truth is the highest title of nobility.

... It takes nobility of character not to resent someone who does you good.

The Mother