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SELECT DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 



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Frau G. ScheifE. One of the most admired of the decorative 

 type, color bright lively chamois, with just a faint suggestion 

 of orange suffusion. The arrangement of its petals is quite 

 distinct, these often showing the coppery-orange reverse by 

 their peculiar twisting. 75 cts. each. 



Freckles. One of the best of the fancies, producing 

 good sized flowers on long stiff stems in great pro- 

 fusion; in color it is distinct and unique, the ground 

 color a rich buttercup yellow prettily streaked and 

 striped with garnet. 75 cts. each. 



Gloire de Verdun. A most perfect flower of giant 

 size; in color a most intense and brilliant shade of 

 cardinal red; one of the best and most effective 

 high-colored varieties. 50 cts. each. 



Gloriana. Of huge size and a splendid Dahlia for 

 decorative effect either for the garden or as a cut 

 flower. Color pure old gold, intensified by a reddish 

 glow in the centre. Exceptionally good long, leafless 

 stems hold the flowers well above the plants. $1.50 

 each. 



Glorieux. A wonderfully formed large flower with wavy 

 petals which are deeply cleft at the tips giving ita light and 

 graceful formation. In color it is a golden yellow deepening 

 to mikado-orange at the centre, sometimes every petal is tipped 

 with white but more frequently it is without these white tips, 

 but it is equally handsome in either state. $1.50 each. 



Hortulanus Fiet. Flower over 8 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 

 of great charm. $1.00 each. 



Judge Marean. A very large flower of perfect decorative 

 shape. The colors changing as the flowers pass through different 

 stages of development are a combination of glowing salmon- 

 pink, red, iridescent orange, yellow and gold, all blending most 

 harmoniously; it is an early and continuous bloomer on long 

 perfect stems. $1.50 each. 



Kenneth J. Doolittle. An exceptionally fine brilliant crimson 

 scarlet of giant size and clean cut perfect form, flowering early 

 and continuing in good shape throughout the season. $1.50 each. 



Decorative Dahlia, 



Earl Williams 

 (Offered on page 146) 



Kittle Dunlop. If this has any weak points we have failed to 

 discover them. It flowers early and continues perfect through- 

 out the season, its blooms are of the largest size, all that can be 

 wished for in shape and are carried on long, stiff, practically 

 leafless, stems well above the plant; in color it is a much admired 

 beautiful shade of carmine-rose with a brilliant suffusion difficult 

 to describe. $1.50 each. 



Decorative Dahlia, 

 Judge Marean 



La Mascotte. Entirely distinct in formation and coloring. 



The face of the petals is silvery pink while the reverse is reddish 



violet, the petals being quilled on first opening, the two-toned 



effect produced is very novel and pleasing. The flowers are 



of medium size and are produced in great profusion. $2.00 each. 



Lotus. A favorite with everyone who sees it, in 



T color a most lively orange with an iridescent metallic 



] lustre that makes the flower stand out prominently 



among all others. It is of good size and in shape is not 



unlike a water lily, grand for garden decoration 



and a glorious cut flower, particularly luminous 



under artificial light. $1.00 each. 



Lucero. Brown-buff with bronze shadings, extra 



long good stems, fine for cutting. 75 cts. each. 

 Luminous. Very full perfect flowers of a deep 

 purplish garnet with luminous pomegranate red 

 shadings, very free and early. $1.50 each. 

 Marc Aureau. A fine formed flower of large size 

 of a good sulphur-yellow, shading to lemon-yellow 

 at the centre. Excellent long wiry stems, continuing 

 in good shape throughout the season; very free. 

 (See cut on page 148). $2.50 each. 

 Miss Freeman. Large perfectly formed decorative 

 flowers of a pleasing shade of salmon-orange with 

 peach-red suffusion; a fine cut flower. $1.00 each. 

 Mont Blanc. An early, free, continuous flowering 

 creamy-white on good stiff stems. An important 

 cut flower variety. 35 cts. each. 

 Mrs. Carl Salbach. This is one of the California 

 varieties which is seen at most of the Dahlia Shows throughout 

 the country, and which has been accorded many honors. The 

 plant is of exceptional clean, vigorous, erect habit, producing 

 its flowers on unusually long stiff stems. These are of splendid decora- 

 tive form, measuring fully nine inches across, and are of a pleasing lively 

 shade of solferino pink with white suffusion, equally fine under natural 

 as well as artificial light. $1.00 each. 



