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with revolute ("rolled back") margins, forming, in the outer florets, a more 

 or less perfect tube for more than half the length of the ray. 



Typical examples: Snowdon, T. G. Baker, Mrs. Douglas Fleming, 

 J. H. Jackson, H. H. Thomas and Rev. T. W. Jamieson. 



B. HYBRID CACTUS OR SEMI-GAGTUS TYPE: Flowers fully double; 

 floral rays ("petals") short as compared with previous type, broad, flat, 

 recurved or twisted, not sharply pointed except when tips are divided 

 ("staghorn"), margins only slightly revolute ("rolled back"), and tubes 

 of outer florets, if any, less than half the length of the ray. 



Typical examples: Master Carl, Perle de Lyon, Flora, Mrs. J. T. 

 Mace, Kalif and Rheinkoenig. 



2. DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 



Double flowers, full to center in early season, flat rather than ball- 

 shaped, with broad, flat, somewhat loosely arranged floral rays (".petals") 

 with broad points or rounded tips which are straight or decurved (turned 

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

 rolled at all. 



Includes forms like those of Souvenir de Gustave Douzon, Jeanne 

 Gharmet, Le Grand Manitou, Delice, Lyndhurst and Bertha Von Suttner, 

 but does not include Le Golosse, Mrs. Roosevelt, Dreer's White, Grand 

 Duke Alexis or similar forms, which fall into section B. of the ball-shaped 

 double Dahlias. 



3. BALL-SHAPED DOUBLE DAHLIAS 



A. SHOW TYPE: Double flowers, globular or ball-shaped rather 

 than broad or flat, full to center, showing regular spiral arrangement of 

 florets; floral rays more or less quilled or with markedly involute (rolled 

 in) margins and rounded tips. 



(The class called Fancy Dahlias is not recognized separately in this classification, but 

 is included in this Sub-section A.) 



Typical examples of Show Dahlias: Arabella, Dorothy Peacock, Gold 

 Medal, John Walker, Colonist and A. D. Livoni. 



B. HYBRID SHOW, GIANT SHOW OR COLOSSAL TYPE: Flowers fully 

 double, broadly hemi-spherical to flatly globular in form, loosely built so 

 spiral arrangement of florets is not immediately evident; floral rays ("pet- 

 als") broad, heavy, cupped or quilled, with rounded tips and involute 

 (rolled in or forward) margins. 



Typical examples: Grand Duke Alexis, Cuban Giant, Mrs. Roose- 

 velt, Le Colosse, W. W. Rawson and Golden West. 



G. POMPON TYPE: Shape and color may be same as of A. or B.; 

 but must be under two inches in diameter. 



Typical examples: Fairy Queen, Belle of Springfield, Darkest of All, 

 Nerissa, Little Herman and Snowclad. 



4. PEONY-FLOWERED OR "ART". DAHLIAS 

 Semi-double flowers with open center, the inner floral rays ("petals") 



being usually curled or twisted, the other or outer petals being either flat 



or more or less irregular. 



Typical examples: Queen Wilhelmina, Geisha, Hampton Court, Mrs. 



W. Kerr, P. W. Janssen, and Glory of Baarn. 



5. DUPLEX DAHLIAS 



Semi-double flowers, with center always exposed on opening'of bud, 

 with petals in more than one row, more than 12, long and flat, or broad 



