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has done some intelligent crossing to produce live colors. The 

 story of the variety IVm. Ag7iezv (Fig. 30) is an interesting one. 

 Mr. Peacock noticed that most of the reds he knew had no life out 

 of the sunlight. He began with a large ball-shaped dahlia named 

 Crimson Giant the great size of whose flowers he coveted. The 



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30. — Wm. Agnew. A fine scarlet orange semi-cactus variety. 



pollen of this variety was used on Professor Baldwin^ which is said 

 to have been a sport from the original cactus dahlia. It had a scar- 

 let orange flower, and Mr. Peacock had noticed that a touch of 

 orange lightens up flowers wonderfully in the shade. This was 

 a violent cross as the parents were as far apart in form as are fig- 

 ures 24 and 25. In the seedling the flower had the cactus-like 



