A PRIMITIVE TYPE OF 

 DAHLIA 



The wild dahlias are sunflowerlike 

 plants that scarcely suggest the 

 familiar cultivated dahlias of the flower 

 garden. It will be seen, however, that 

 the primitive type here shown manifests 

 a tendency to variation in form of the 

 petals (properly ray flowers], suggest- 

 ing possibilities of development. 



