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twisted, margins only slightly revolute and tubes of outer 

 florets, if any, less than half the length of the corolla. This 

 type intergrades with the decorative and peony-flowered 

 classes. 



Typical examples: Kalif; Futurity; Gladys Sherwood; 

 Wodan. 



CLASS II. 



DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 



Double flowers, full to the centre, early in the season at 

 least, flat rather than ball-shaped, with broad, flat, some- 

 what loosely arranged floral rays with broad points or 

 rounded tips which are straight or decurved (turned down 

 or back) not incurved, and with margins revolute, if rolled 

 at all. 



Typical examples: Delice; King of the Autumn; Hor- 

 tulanus Fiet. 



CLASS III. 



BALL-SHAPED DOUBLE DAHLIAS 



(a) Show type: Flowers globular rather than broad or 

 flat, showing regular spiral arrangement of florets, with 

 corollas more or less quilled or with their margins involute 

 (rolled forward or inward). (Dahlias of this type with 

 flowers spotted, variegated, or parti-coloured were formerly 

 classed as fancy, a group no longer recognized.) 



Typical examples: A. D. Livoni; King of Shows; Gold 

 Medal; David Warfield. 



(b) Hybrid show, giant show, or colossal* show, type : 

 Flowers broadly hemispheric to flatly globular, loosely 

 built, so spiral arrangement of florets is not immediately 



