Select Decorative Dahlias 
( Continued.) 
Greuze. A large flower of graceful form, of a soft creamy 
white color, 50 cts. each. 
Guillaume de St. Victor. A good sized, beautiful 
mauve-rose, of fine finished form, 50 cts. each. 
Hortulanus Fiet. A colossal flowered variety with 
blooms over eight inches in diameter, of the most 
delicate shade of shrimp pink, the tip of each 
petal barely touched with gold. The -entire 
flower has a suffusion of delicate tints of red and 
yellow, which gives a glow yet softness of color 
) difficult to describe, Illustrated in connection 
with two other Dahlias on plate page 141. 75 
cts. each. 
Hortulanus Witte. A very large long 
stemmed, free-flowering pure white, a 
splendid cut flower and exhibition variety. 
50 cts. each. 
Jack Rose. Brilliant crimson-red, similar 
in shade to the popular ‘‘ Jack’? Rose, 
which suggested its mame; perfect for garden 
decoration or for cutting. 20 cts. each. 
Jeanne Charmet. A splendid cut flower variety 
of a pleasing shade of violet-rose on a lighter 
ground. 36 cts. each, 
Jean Wood. Probably a seedling of Mme. Van 
den Daele and similar in color, a delicate silvery-rose, but a 
much shaplier flower than its parent, being of true decorative 
form. 50 cts. each. 
J.J. Johnson. ‘Dull velvety maroon shading to almost black at 
the centre. One of the first to flower in our fields. 35 cts. each. 
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria. The first of the decorative sorts to come 
into flower, of medium size, good form and pure white color. Plants ready 
May Ist. 35 cts. each. 
Le Grand [anitou. The best variegated Dahlia of the decorative type. The 
ground color white, prettily spotted, stripped and blotched with 
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Maman Charmet. A noble exhibition flower, of a rich deep reddish-violet; occasionally self-colored; these are borne 
on stout, stiff stems, held well above the foliage. 50 cts. each. 
Lyndhurst. Brilliant cardinal-red. A fine cut flower. 25 
cts. each, 
crimson-carmine, showing lighter rose-colored markings, 
$1.00 each. 
Maman Rozain. Flowers very large size, but graceful, of a 
pearly-white suftused with rose, reverse of petals velvety- 
purple edged with white; a most distinct and novel variety. 
50 cts. each. 
Manzanola. Brilliant oriental-red with deeper shadings, a 
fine shaped flower with good stem, very free and ideal 
for cutting. 25 cts. each. 
Tieteor. An attractive, showy, fancy variety; the ground 
color a brilliant cardinal-red, edged and marked with 
primrose-yellow. The flowers are not large, buf 
are of ‘perfect form and very freely produced on 
long, stiff stems. 50 cts. each. 
Mina Burgle. One of our California friends, an 
enthusiast on Dahlias, called our attention to this 
variety three years ago, and we have been greatly 
pleased with our trials of same, it being one of 
the freest flowering decorative varieties in our et 
fields: thirty large, perfect, open flowers on one : 
plant at a time being not unusual; in color it is a 
rich Juminous dark scarlet, on long stiff stems,’ 
splendid both for cutting and garden decoration. 
50 cts. each. 
Miss Minnie McCullough. One of the most popuiar cut- 
flower varieties now grown; particularly valuable for use 
under artificial light. Color soft yellow, overlaid with bronze; 
a beautiful autumnal tint. 25 cts. each, 
Mme. A. Lumiere. A very distinct and attractive variety; 
ground color white, suffused towards the ends of the petals 
with red, the tips pointed with bright violet-red. 25 cts. 
each, 
DecoraTIve DAHLIA 
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