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CHOICE CACTUS DAHLIAS 



We offer on this and the following page a list of choice Cactus 

 and Hybrid Cactus sorts of recent introduction, together with the 

 older well-tried gems which have made a reputation for themselves . 



All of the Dahlias offered under this heading will be 

 supplied in dormant field roots of proper planting size. 



Ambassador. Color a soft yellow at the centre with salmon, 

 amber and pink shadings, gradually deepening towards the 

 tips. The blending of these colors captivates all. 

 The flowers are of largest size and set just right 

 on perfect stems. A strong grower and free 

 bloomer. 75 cts. each. 



Arthur Twitchett. Very large deep flower com- 

 posed of many incurved petals forming a most 

 attractive graceful flower. Color, early in season, 

 white with just a flush of pink changing to white 

 late in the season. $1.00 each. 



Break O'Day. A good sized flower with a full, 

 high centre, with more or less curved and twisted 

 petals, intermingled with the flatter ones, forming 

 a most attractive, graceful flower. In color, a 

 clear sulphur-yellow, shading to sulphur-white at 

 the tips, early and free-flowering. 50 cts. each. 



California Beauty. Probably the nearest ap- 

 proach to a pure copper, a flower of excellent 

 form and dainty appearance produced most 

 prolifically on long stiff wiry stems; a gem in the 

 garden and a splendid cut flower. 50 cts. each. 



Cardinal Superba. A marvelously brilliant giant ! 

 Cactus with immense flowers of most perfect form and 

 of brilliant red with golden metallic lustre. It has good stiff 

 stems holding the flowers in such a manner as to display their 

 brilliant beauty to full advantage. $1.00 each. 



Cigarette. Creamy white, heavily edged with pomegranate 

 red, but it varies greatly, no two flowers being exactly alike. 

 The petals are long and inclined to roll, forming a large, deep, 

 well-shaped flower of great substance on very long stems of 

 best quality. 75 cts. each. 



Dempsey. Good large well-formed flowers with somewhat 

 curled petals on good stiff stems of a brilliant French purple; 

 an effective exhibition and garden variety. 50 cts. each. 



Elsie Daniels. Very soft lavender-pink shading to pearly- 

 white at centre, long, more or less wavy petals forming a most 

 perfect shaped large flower on excellent stems. $1.00 each. 



Esther Hunt. A large flower, distinct and beautiful both in 

 form and coloring, the latter being a striking luminous tone of 

 chinese-orange. The flowers are most perfect in form with 

 good full centres, which remain in good condition until the 

 flowers have faded. 50 cts. each. 



Esther R. Holmes. A most graceful flower of good size, a 

 most delicate and pleasing shade of mauve-pink, a fine cut 

 flower. 50 cts. each. 



Etendard de Lyon. Everyone admires this beautiful rich 

 carmine-rose or royal purple. The flowers are distinct in shape 

 from all others, with broad, curling, wavy petals which form a 

 large flower without any stiffness or formality. 50 cts. each. 



F. W. Fellows. One of the very best Cactus varieties ever 

 raised, with flowers of unusual size for the long narrow petaled 

 type of which this is one of the finest representatives. In color 

 it is an intense coral-red with deeper suffusion at the centre; 

 no collection of Dahlias is complete without it. 50 cts. each. 



George Walters. While introduced some ten years ago, it is 

 still one of the most popular large flowered Californians, pro- 

 ducing its blooms very freely on long stiff stems, of a pleasing 

 salmon with shrimp-pink shadings; a fine garden variety and 

 good cut flower. 50 cts. each. 



Gladys Bates. Very large perfect flowers, with incurved petals 

 of a golden salmon, the reverse of the petals being rose, the two 

 colors giving the effect of a golden old-rose. It is an early, free 

 and continuous bloomer with exceptionally good stems, one of 

 the most popular Decorative varieties. 50 cts. each. 



Gladys Sherwood. A wonderful white. We have seen flowers 

 over 10 inches in diameter composed of long curling petals of 

 glistening white forming a flower of unusual depth. $1.00 each. 



Goldene Sonne. Andreas Hofer described on page 158 of this 

 book, a variety which, however, is yet but little known, is one 

 of the finest and most graceful delicate pink Cactus varieties 

 we know. In Goldene Sonne we have its counterpart in forma- 

 tion but with a larger flower and of a rich golden yellow with 

 soft rose suffusion. $1.00 each. 



Jean Chazot or Gay Paree. This French introduction is one 

 of the very best all-around varieties that has yet been produced. 

 A beautiful golden bronze with a faint touch of Nasturtium red 

 and unsurpassed by any of the autumn tints as a cut flower. A 

 free upright grower, long stiff, wiry stems hold the flowers well 

 above the foliage in such a manner as to display their full 

 beauty; it is one of the most prolific to flower, coming into 

 bloom early and continuing in good condition to the end of 

 the season. 75 cts. each. 



Koh-I-Noor. Maroon, and at times so dark as to be nearly 

 black. The flower texture has a pronounced velvety sheen 

 which adds greatly to its beauty. In form, a perfect Hybrid 

 Cactus, the blossoms very large and deep with perfect centre 

 throughout the season. $1.50 each. 



Lolita Velasco. There are many good white Cactus Dahlias 

 and all of them have some distinctive merit of their own. We 

 should hesitate to designate any one of them as the best white 

 on all points, but if we had to select one individual sort, we would 

 take this splendid variety which is composed of long straight 

 petals which form into a flower of perfect shape. $1.50 each. 



Note — The Dahlias offered on this page will be supplied in dormant field-grown roots of proper planting size 



