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orets are less than half the length of the ray. Examples, 
Kalif, Lady Helen, and Gladys Sherwood. The word “hybrid” 
in such terms as Hybrid Cactus has no special reference to their 
7.1 e Decorative Sean we have double flowers, normally 
full to a center and flat rather than ball-shaped, with broad, 
flat rays, the margins of de outer rays plane or only slightly 
recurved. Examples, Beatrice Slocombe, Snowdrift, and Judge 
Sask 
e Show class, we find fully double flowers that are 
folding inward of their mar; Examples, Dreer’s 
White, A. D. Livoni awson, and King of Sho 
9. In the Hybrid S. group, we have flowers that are inter- 
mediate in character b n the s ratives. 
ae less cupped or quilled. Examples, “Avtiir Kelsey and 
D. M. Moore. 
10. in the Pompon class, we have flowers of the same general 
poi ees pea and Bileene. 
the cactus family that was then popular in the greenhouses of 
that country. 
In he matter of soil for growing dahlias successfully it has been 
found that a light loam, with good drainage, is most favorable. 
They commonly do better on a slope than on level land. Dahlias 
