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DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 



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Decorative 



Dahlia, 



Pride of Wayne 



Jersey's Rose. A splendid companion to the famous Jersey's 

 Beauty with flowers of large size and perfect form of a luminous 

 tyrian rose with red suffusion at the centre. 75 cts. each. 



Jersey's Sovereign. A distinct shade of salmon orange, a 

 strong vigorous grower, flowers of good size. 75 cts. each. 



Jersey's Sweetheart. A dainty attractive pink, shading to 

 white in centre; flowers produced in abundance on slender stiff 

 stems; particularly valuable for cutting. $1.00 each. 



Jessie K. Prescott. Deep orange at centre shading to 

 creamy orange on the outer petals. These are long and nar- 

 row and roll backward, giving the flower a light graceful 

 formation. 75 cts. 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. $1.00 each. 



Kittie Dunlap. If this has any weak points we have failed 

 to discover them. It flowers early and continues perfect 

 throughout the season, its blooms are of large size, in color it 

 is a much admired beautiful shade of carmine-rose with a 

 brilliant suffusion. 75 cts each. 



Laddie. A soft lemon-yellow with orange-buff suffusion, 

 in the depth of the flower gives it a glowing color that makes 

 particularly attractive, the flowers are of large size, produced 

 very freely. 50 cts. each. 



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. 50 cts. each. 



Lilian Baldwin. Its effective color, a lively iridescent, glisten- 

 ing bright pink, makes this a favorite cut flower, particularly 

 under artificial light, in which it reflects a bright golden sheen. 

 The plant is very free flowering. $1.00 each. 



Lydia Poole. A closely built large flower of a brilliant lavender 

 pink, an early and free bloomer holding its full centre to the end 

 of the season. 50 cts. each. 

 Marc Aureau. One of the earliest and most profuse flowering 

 Dahlias in our collection. A finely formed flower of large size, 

 of a good sulphur-yellow, shading to lemon-yellow at the centre, 

 continuing in good shape throughout the season. Excellent 

 long wiry stems. 50 cts. each. 

 Mr. Alez Waldie. A large, weU-formed flower, a particularly 

 soft and pleasing color, being a creamy-ground, overlaid and 

 suffused with delicate salmon-pink on the outer petals, the 

 centre creamy-white, a dainty color combination. 50 cts. each. 

 Mrs. C. H. Breck. A splendid all around variety either for 

 garden decoration or for cutting. Its flowers are always of 

 perfect shape, full double to the centre of a soft yellow deeply 

 suffused with carmine. 50 cts. each. 

 Mr. C. H. Dresselhuis. A soft rose-pink with white 

 suffusion towards the tips, and one of the most prolific 

 bloomers. Of medium size just right for cutting; splendidly 

 supported on very long stiff stems. 50 cts. each. 

 Mr. Crowley. An exquisite shade of salmon-pink with the 

 base of the petals golden-yellow, flowers of large size and 

 come on stout stems on plants of very compact habit of 

 growth, a splendid exhibition flower. 50 cts. each. 

 Mrs. Eleanor Martin. Very large flowers, can be grown to 

 ten inches in diameter. The form is of best exhibition type and 

 the coloring is unique, different from all others, a beautiful 

 mulberry with golden suffusion. $1.00 each. 



Mrs. I. de Ver Warner. A wonderful Dahlia that has justly 

 gained a great reputation, produces great masses of large 

 absolutely perfect flowers under aU conditiops. In color it is 

 of that refined pleasing mauve-pink that is usually referred to 

 as an orchid coloring and which everyone loves. It comes into 

 flower early and continues in good shape to the end of the 

 season. 50 cts. each. 



Mrs. Nat Slocombe. No other variety approaches this for 

 a good all around bright primrose-yellow; it is fine in color, of 

 splendid shape and very free flowering. 75 cts. each. 



Decorative Dahlia, 

 Jessie K. Prescott 



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



