DREER'S SPECIAL DAHLIA CATALOGUE 



NEW CACTUS DAHLIA, 

 MRS.HENRY R.WIRTH 



Mile. Marie Doucet. Soft mauve color with large white 

 centre, very prelly and lloriferous. 



Mme. Berthe Qemen. A splendid flower of large ii/.e of a 

 rosy currant red snffused with sparkling naples-yellow on long 

 stiff stems well above the foliage. 75 cts. each. 



Mme. Caffin. Apricot with rose-mauve shadings, a well- 

 formed delicately colored flower. 75 cts. each. 



Mme. Jtlhel. .\ brilliant currant-red marked at the base of 

 the petals with lines of pure white which freiiuently extends 

 throughout the petals as white stripes, a pretty combination. 

 75 cts. each. 



Mondfee. Pure white with the faintest touch of silvery-rose 



in suffusion at the tips of the petals ; a splendid flower. 

 Mons. Qemen. A brilliant fiery-red shading deeper to the 



base of the petals. 75 cts. each. 

 Mozart. A fine crimson with intense scarlet shadings of good 



Cactus form on stiff' wiry stems. 



Mrs. Alfred Dyer. A fme variety with every good quality, 

 color a soft pleasing lemon-yellow at centre, gradually shading 

 to a soft tint of rosy-pink at tips. The flowers are large with 

 narrow incurved petals. 75 els. each. 



Mrs. Henry R. Wirth. Weoff'ered this splendid Dahlia in 

 19 10, but the demand was so strong that we were unable to 

 fill all orders, and we were obliged to withdraw it from our 

 catalogue in 1911. We are in position to offer it this season 

 in good plants only, ready May 1st. It is a glorified 

 form of the popular Standard Bearer, having flowers of 

 the same size, but of a more intense, rich, glowing, 

 fiery-scarlet and the freest-flowering high-colored Cac- 

 tus Dahlia in our grounds; it i* not only the first to 

 bloom, but it is loaded with flowers to the end of the 

 season. We consider this a splendid companion to the 

 Countess of Lonsdale, which for years we have recom- 

 mended as the Dahlia for the million. (See cut. ) 



Mrs. Pauline Mackenzie. A beautiful autumn- 

 tinted variety; buff with apricot shadings, very pleasing 

 flower of good form ; very free. 75 cts. each. 



Mrs. T. W. Willis. A very large flower with long narrow 

 petals, white at the centre, the edges and tips being a suflfusion 

 of rosy-mauve, delicate and pleasing. 



Mycenes. Amber-yellow heavily suffused with salmon with 

 narrow tubular petals. 



Price. Any of the above, except where noted, 50 cts. each; 

 ^(5.00 per doz. 



New Cactus Dahlias for 1912 



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Libellule. Of splendid form, sulphur-yellow shaded with 

 capuciiie red, free- flowering. 



Li<;htship. A splendid yellow with long narrow ])elals on 

 three feet long stems. 75 cts. each. 



Lord Minto. Very symmetrical flowers with long, quilled 

 petals, which are cleft at the tips, giving the flower a grace 

 not found in any other Dahlia ; color centre pale yellow, 

 passing to a soft rosy-salmon at the ends of the petals. 



Louis Due. Very large flower with long pointed petals of a 

 cadmium yellow striped with lemon-yellow. 75 cts. each. 



Magnet. Distinct in color, a coppery oldrose with mauve 

 suffusion towards the tips ; a fine flower composed of broad 

 petals, tubular towards the tips and more or less curled or 

 twisted. 75 cts. each. 



Magpie. A good-shaped flower, maroon heavily tipped white ; 

 free and constant. 75 cts. each. 



Manon. Flowers of medium size of beautiful Cactus form oi» 

 long stems ; splendid for cutting, of a pleasing canary-yellow, 

 one of the best. 75 cts. each. 



Marathon. A brilliant, rich purple, illuminated with higher, 

 brighter shadings; entirely distinct in color. (See cut, page 3.) 



Marguerite Bouchon. The most beautiful Cactus Dahlia 

 grown. Absolutely perfect in form, free-flowering, of very 

 large size, the flowers held well above the foliage ; color a 

 magnificent shade of brilliant yet soft rose with very large white 

 centre and distinctly defined white tips. (See cut, page 3 ) 

 Orders for plants booked in rotation for delivery after May 1st. 

 Slock very limited, $1.50 each. 



Marjory Seaie. .Splendid deep buttercup-yellow, an immense 

 flower with long, narrow, siraight petals, produced freely on 

 stiff stems. 75 cts. each. 



Melilla. A grand flower, very full and double, of a novel tint 

 of chrome yellow with lemon suffusion ; very free-flowering. 

 75 cts. each. 



Minima. A small Pompon Cactus variety, quite distinct, [lur- 

 ple-crimson flowers with narrow petals, of neat form. 



Mlrifique. Centre wine-color tipped white, suffused with 

 lilac, a unique and distinct color combination ; a fine exhibi- 

 tion flower. 75 cts. each. 



Miss Wilmott. A very free-flowering bedding variety of a 

 clear orange-scarlet on long stifl stems. 75 cts. each. 



NEW CACTUS DAHLIA, 

 PHCENIX 



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