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and rounded, not noticeably twisted or curled. (Many so-called Peony- 

 flowered Dahlias belong here.) 



Typical examples: Big Chief, Souv. de Franz Listz, Merry Widow, 

 Sensation, Prairie Fire and Hortulanus Budde. 



6. SINGLE DAHLIAS 



Open centered flowers, small to very large, with eight to twelve floral 

 rays ("petals") more or less in one circle, margins often decurved (turned 

 down or back). There are no distinctions as to colors. The type em- 

 braces the large Twentieth Century as well as the smaller English varieties. 



Typical examples: White Century, Golden Century, Scarlet Century, 

 Newport Marvel (of the large flowered forms); with Polly Eccles, Leslie 

 Seale, Danish Cross and Ami Barillet (of the lesser flowered forms). 



The Star singles and Cactus singles are omitted from'the present classification scheme 

 as not being sufficiently numerous or well defined yet. 



7. COLLARETTE DAHLIAS 



Open centered blossoms with not more than nine floral rays ("petals"), 

 with one or more smaller rays, usually of a different color, from heart of 

 each ray floret, making a collar about the disk. 



Typical examples: Maurice Rivoire, Souvenir de Chabanne, Diadem, 

 Orphee, Madame Poirier and Albert Maumene. 



8. ANEMONE-FLOWERED DAHLIAS 



Flowers with one row of large floral rays ("petals") like single Dahlias, 

 but with each disk flower producing small, tubular petals. 



Includes such forms as those of Graziella, Mme. Chas. Molin, Claude 

 Barnard and Mme. Pierre Dupont. 



9. OTHER SECTIONS 



MINIATURE OR POMPON CACTUS: Small flowered, stellate fine petaled 

 cactus Dahlias represented by Tom-tit, Mary, Nora, Minima. MIGNON OR 

 TOM THUMB: Dwarf, bushy, single flowered Dahlias for edging. Typical 

 example: Jules Closson. BEDDING DAHLIA: A taller, more upright type 

 than the Tom Thumb. Typical examples: Barlow's Bedder and Midget 

 Improved. COCKADE OF ZONAL DAHLIAS: Single or collarette Dahlias, with 

 three distinct bands 'of color about center. Type hardly known hi 

 America, but includes forms such as those of Cockade Espagnole 



CULTIVATION. The Dahlia is typically Fall blooming and 

 succeeds in any location where killing frosts do not come too early. 

 If the plants are not seriously checked in their growth by frosts, they 

 will usually bloom very nicely in most parts of New York State, New 

 England and the Central West. The soils best adapted to Dahlias 

 are those which are somewhat -sandy, but they will grow on heavy 

 clay. The regions which are influenced more or less by the ocean, 

 that is, where cool nights are prevalent, are perhaps the most noted 

 for Dahlia growing, especially Long Island, New Jersey, Rhode 

 Island, Maryland and Massachusetts in the East, and without a 



