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HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST 



DREER'S SELECT DAHLIAS 



We give on pages 31 to 34 a complete alphabetical list of all the Dahlias we have to offer for 1916. For full descriptions see pages 

 133 to 153 of our Garden Book or retail catalogue. 



All varieties are supplied in strong dormant roots except those marked P, which can only be furnished in green growing plants 

 ready after April 25th. As the season advances our supply of dormant roots of some of the older varieties becomes exhausted, in which 

 case green growing plants are sent instead. 



Five Special Decorative Dahlias for Cutting 

 or Garden Decoration. 



Easton. Not an extra large flower, but a variety which, on 

 account of its brilliant color, good form and remarkable 

 free-flowering habit, is certain to become a standard, both as 

 a cut flower as well as for garden decoration; in color it is a 

 brilliant Turkish or Oriental red. 

 Field roots, 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



Eventide. A splendid flower of perfect form, on long, stiff 

 stems, which for all purposes may be termed a white Dahlia, 

 there being but the faintest flush of delicate rose on the edge 

 of the flower, which seems to intensify its pureness. 

 Field roots, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Hortulanus Flet. This is one of the Dahlias that 

 has come to stay. A giant-flowered variety with 

 blooms over 8 inches in diameter, of the most deli- 

 cate shade of shrimp-pink, the tip of each petal 

 barely touched with gold. The entire flower has 

 J a suffusion of delicate tints of red and yellow, 

 which gives a glow yet softness of color difficult 

 to describe. 



Roots, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 

 Minnie Burgle. One of our California friends, an 

 enthusiast on Dahlias, called our attention to this 

 variety two years since, and we have been greatly 

 pleased with our trials; it is one of the freest 

 flowering decorative varieties in our fields, thirty 

 large perfect open flowers on one plant at a time not 

 being unusual; in color it is a rich, luminous dark 

 scarlet; these flowers are carried on long stiff stems; 

 splendid both for cutting and garden decoration. 

 Plants ready April 25th. 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; 

 $25.00 per 100. 

 Mont Blanc. An early, free, continuous flowering 

 creamy-white on good stiff stems. One of the most 

 important cut-flower varieties. 

 Field roots, 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



CACTUS DAHLIA 

 CRYSTAL 



Six Special Cactus Dahlias for Cutting. 



Candeur. A wonderful pure white, which in the fully 

 developed flower more closely resembles an incurved 

 Chrysanthemum than any other sort; it is of fair size, and 

 a valuable cut flower. 

 Field roots, .15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Crystal. A wonderfully beautiful Dahlia of large size and 

 fine form, composed of long twisted incurved tubular 

 petals of a tender silvery-pink shading to ivory-white at 

 the centre. 



Green plants ready April 25th. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; 

 $40.00 per 100. 



(jalathea. A medium-sized flower of splendid form, espe- 

 cially appreciated on account of its delicate color, which 

 is an even, tender soft pink. 

 Field roots. 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Rhelnischer Frohslnn . This variety appealed to every visitor 

 to our trial grounds during the past three seasons as one of the 

 most distinct and refined varieties. The flowers are large, of 

 splendid form; the long incurving petals are white at the base, 

 but at about one-half their length they become suffused with 

 and change to a luminous carmine-rose, the two colors com- 

 bining harmoniously in forming a most attractive flower. 

 Green plants ready April 25th. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; 

 $35.00 per 100. 



Thais. The rather broad petals, which are loosely arranged, make 

 up an informally shaped flower, which, on account of its color, 

 a pure white with a soft mauve suffusion which is deposited over 

 the snowy petals like a dew, makes it one of the most delicately 

 colored sorts which we have yet offered. 

 Field roots, 15 cts. each; $1.50 per doz.; $10.00 per 100. 



Wacht am Rheln. In offering this variety last year we described 

 it as the most beautiful cactus variety offered in 1915, another 

 season's trial has proven all that we claimed for it last year; it is 

 an introduction of the same grower who gave us such important 

 sorts as Wolfgang von Goethe, Wodan, Rheinkoenig, Nerthus, 

 Nibelungenhort, Walkuere, Mondscheibe, etc., and it is a credit- 

 able comparison to these superior sorts. A most gracefully 

 formed flower, of large size, on splendid stems for cutting, and 

 of an ideal soft rosy-pink color with white suffusion. 

 Roots, 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $40.00 per 100. 



NEW DECORATIVE DAHLIA MINNIE BURGLE 



