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Select Standard 



CACTUS DAHLIAS. 



The collection offered below contains all first-class 

 standard varieties, of which we have large stocks and 

 which we are able to offer at popular prices. 

 Albanie. Intense brilliant crimson, of dwarf habit and 



very free. 

 Amos Perry. Flowers large, with long petals; color 



fiery-red; one of the earliest and freest-flowering. 

 Aurora. A beautiful reddish-apricot suffused with 



flesh-pink, shading lighter to the tips. 

 Clara. A delicate soft mauve, with silvery- white tips 



edged with mauve. 

 Country Girl. Base of petals golden-yellow suffused 



with salmon-rose, which is deepest at the points. 

 Echo. Bright tyrian-rose passing to silvery-rose at 



base of petals, a distinct shade of color, large, mod- 

 erately incurved regular shaped flower. 

 Erecta. A rich, reddish purple, with deep chestnut 



shadings; the flowers are held erect, of good form and 



useful for cutting. 

 Floradora. A remarkably free-flowering, bright 



blood-red. 

 General de Lacroix. A distinct free-flowering sal- 

 mon-red, of good form and very free. 

 Goldregen. Very deep yellow of good form and very 



free. 

 Gotterfunke. A splendid flower, composed of long, 



twisted incurved petals, borne on long stems, of a 



deep blood-red with satin sheen and fiery-red reflex. 

 Gunther. A splendid pure white with broad twisted 



petals of the purest white, held well above the foliage 



on stiff stems 

 Henri Cayeux. Very large flower; when well grown 



7 inches in diameter, color old gold shading to golden- 

 yellow. 

 Kriemhilde. A most popular cut flower variety; 



perfect flowers on long stems; color a brilliant pink, gradually 



shading to white at the centre. 

 Lovely. Delicate violet-rose with creamy-white shadings; free 



and desirable. 

 flons. Quentin Bouchard. A bright scarlet, the tips of the 



petals deeply cleft and twisted, the flowers are large and borne 



on long, stiff stems. 



Fancy Cactus Dahlia 



New Cactus Dahlia, Gloky of Wilts (See opposite page). 



Mrs. George Stevenson. A bright, sparkling yellow, with 



large, perfect flowers on long stems. 

 Mozart. A fine crimson with intense scarlet shadings of good 



Cactus form on stiff; wiry stems. 

 Otto Henschel. A good bright canary-yellow. 

 Prima Donna. Distinct and free, flowers large, with long, 

 tublar twisted incurved petals, the < entre ones creamy-white, 

 the outer delicate mauve-pink; very choice. 

 Prince of Yellows. A rich canary-yellow; one of the best yel- 

 lows for cutting. 

 Progenitor. Bright carmine, each petal being furcated on the 

 end like a staghorn fern. 



Siegstab. A rich French purple of splendid form and 



very free-flowering. 

 Strahlen Krone. Intense cardinal red; rich and glowing. 

 Weisse Dame. A pure snow-white with the edges of 



the petals cleft. 

 V Price. Any of the above, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per 

 doz. ; $10.00 per 100. Set of 25 sorts for $3.00. 



FANCY CACTUS DAHLIAS. 



A distinct and showy class, in which the flowers 

 are beautifully striped and variegated, as shown in 

 the illustration. 



Comet. Delicate lilac, pencilled, spotted and striped 

 with tyrian-rose. 

 Haurice Fuld. Base of petals golden-yellow shading to 

 bronzy rose at the tips and densely striped with bright 

 currant-red. 

 Mercury. Ground color yellow, thickly str ped and 

 spotted with crimson; large flower. 

 Mrs. J. Emberson. A distinct fancy with large incurved flowers 

 of a pale-lemon, splashed and speckled with rosy-pink. 



Price. Any of the above, 30 cts. each; $3.00 per doz. 

 One each of the 4 sorts for $1.00. 



SPECIAL DAHUA GATALOGUE, listing about 500 varieties. Copy sent on application. 



