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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, smaU 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 weU as the smaller English varieties. 



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

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

 Scale, Danish Cross and Ami Barfllet (of the lesser flowered forms). 



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

 as not being sufficiently numerous qf well defined yet. 



7. COLLAKETTB DAHLIAS 



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

 with one or more smaller rays, usuaUy of a dififerent color, from heart of 

 each ray floret, making a coUar about the disk. 



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

 Orphee, Madame Poirier and Albert Maumene. 



8. Anbmone-plowbrbd Dahlias 



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

 but with each disk flower producing small, tubiflar petals. 



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

 Barnard and Mme. Pierre Dupont. 



9. Other Sections 



Miniature ob Pompon Cactus: SmaU flowered, stellate fine petaled 

 cactus Dahlisis represented by Tom-tit, Mary, Nora, Minima. Mignon or 

 Tom Thumb: DwEU-f, bushy, single flowered DaUias 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. Cockadb of Zonal Dahlias: Sii^le or collarette Dahlias, with 

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

 America, but includes forms such as those of Cockade Espagnole 



Cultivation. The Dahlia is typically Fall blooming and 

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

 If the pleints 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 be§t 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 aie prevalent, Eire perhaps the most noted 

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

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



