HENRY A. DREER 



Dahlias 



WHOLESALE LIST 



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CHOICE CACTUS DAHLIAS 



All of the Dahlias offered under this heading will be supplied in dormant field roots of proper planting size. 



Ambassador. Color a soft yellow at the centre with 

 salmon, amber and pink shadings, gradually deepen- 

 ing towards the tips. The blending of these colors 

 captivates all. The flowers are of largest size and 

 set just right on perfect stems. $3.50 per doz. ; 

 .^■'5.00 per 100. 



Andreas Hofer. A lovely narrow-petaled Cactus of 

 ideal form and soft tender coloring. A most delicate 

 shade of pink with salmon suffusion passing to a 

 creamy-white centre. Its stiff, wiry long stems and 

 free habit of bloom make it invaluable for cut 

 flowers as well as for garden decoration. $5.00 per 

 doz.; .$40.00 per 100. 



Arthur Twitchett. Very large deep flower composed of 

 many incurved petals forming a most attractive 

 graceful flower. Color, early in season, white with 

 just a flush of pink changing to white late in the 

 season. $7.50 per doz.; $00.00 per 100. 



Brealc O'Day. A good-sized flower with a full, high ^r ' 

 centre, with more or less curved and twisted 

 petals, intermingled with the flatter ones, form- 

 ing a most graceful flower. In color, a clear sul- 

 phur-yellow, shading to sulphur-white, at the .j- 

 tips. $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. ^• 



California Beauty. Probably the nearest approach to 

 a pure copper, a flower of excellent form and dainty 

 appearance produced most proliflcally on long, stiff, . 

 v/iry stems; a gem in the garden and a splendid cut 

 flower. $3.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Cardinal Siiperba. A marvelously brilliant giant Cac- 

 tus with immense flowers of most perfect form and 

 of brilliant red with golden metallic lustre. .$7.50 

 per doz.; $00.00 per 100. 



Cigarette. Creamy-white, heavily edged with pome- 

 granate-red, but it varies greatly, no two flowers 

 being exactly al'ke. The petals are long and in- 

 clined to roll, forming a large deep, well-shaped 

 flower. $.'5.00 per doz.; .$35.00 per 100. 



Denipsey. Good large well-formed flowers with some- 

 what curled petals on good stiff stems of a brilliant 

 French purple; an effective exhibition and garden 

 variety. $2.00 per doz.; $12.00 per 100. 



Elsie Daniels. Very soft lavender-pink shading to 

 pearly-white at centre, long, more or less wavy 

 petals forming a most perfect shaped large flower 



on excellent stems. .$7.50 per doz.; .$00.00 per 100. 



Esther Hnnt. A large flower, distinct and beautiful 

 both in form and coloring, the latter being a strik- 

 ing luminous tone of Chinese -orange. $3.50 per doz.; 

 $20.00 per 100. 



Esther R. Holmes. A most graceful flower of good 

 size, a most delicate and pleasing shade of mauve- 

 pink, a fine cut flower. $.3.50 per doz.; $20.00 per 100. 



Etendard de I.yon. Everyone admires this beautiful 

 rich carmine-rose or royal purple. The flowers are 

 distinct in shape with broad, curling wavy petals 

 which form a large flower without any stiffness or 

 formality. $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



P. W. Fellows. One of the very best Cactus varieties 

 with flowers of unusual size for the long narrow- 

 petaled type. Tn color it is an intense coral-red 

 with deeper suffusion. $2.00 per doz.; ,$12.00 per 100. 



George Walters. One of the most popular of the large- 

 flowered Californians, a pleasing salmon with shrimp- 

 pink shadings. $2.50 per doz.; $18.00 per 100. 



Gladys Bates. Very large perfect flowers, with in- 

 curved petals of a golden salmon, the reverse of 

 the petals being rose, the two colors giving the 

 effect of a golden old rose. $3.00 per doz.; $13.00 

 per mo. 



Gladys Sher^vood. A wonderful white. We have seen 

 flowers over 10 inches in diameter composed of long 

 curling petals of glistening white forming a flower 

 of unusual depth. .$7.50 per doz.; $60.00 per 100. 



Goldene Sonne. Andreas Hofer is one of the finest and 

 imost graceful in delicate pink Cactus varieties we 

 know. In Goldene Sonne we have its counterpart in 

 formation but with a larger flower and of a rich 

 golden yellow with soft rose suffusion. $5.00 per 

 doz.; .$40J)0 per 100. 



Cactus Dahlia, California Beauty 



Jean Chazot or "Gay Paree." We consider this French 

 introduction not only the best commercial bronze 

 or autumn-tinted cut flower, but it is also one of the 

 best all-around varieties that has yet been produced 

 for garden decoration. The habit of the plant is 

 all that could be wished for. A free, upright 

 grower; long, stiff, wiry stems hold the flowers well 

 above the foliage in such a manner as to display 

 their full beauty; it is one of the most proliflc flow- 

 ering, coming into bloom early and continuing in 

 good condition to the end of the season; we liave 

 never seen an imperfect flower; these are of good 

 size, of splendid Hybrid-Cactus form, and in color a 

 beautiful golden-bronze with just a faint suffusion 

 of Nasturtium-red that intensifies its brilliancy and 

 adds to its charm. $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 



Koh-I-Noor. Maroon, and at times so dark as to be 



nearly black. The flower texture has a pronounced 

 velvety sheen which adds greatly to its beauty. In 

 form, a perfect Hybrid-Cactus, the blossoms very 

 large and deep with perfect centre throughout the 

 season. $10.00 per doz.; ,$75.00 per 100. 



Ijolita Velaseo. There are many good white Cactus 

 Dahlias and all of them have some distinctive merit 

 of their own. If we had to select one individual 

 sort, we would take this splendid variety which Is 

 composed of long straight petals which form into 

 a flower of perfect shape, borne on long stiff stems, 

 fine for cutting and for exhibition. $15.00 per doz.; 

 $75.00 per 100. 



Harian Moore. A clear pinlvish cerise without the 

 slightest taint of magenta, the reverse of the petal 

 being of a lighter tint. The flowers are large, of 

 perfect incurved formation with perfect stem. $5.00 

 per doz.; $:i5.00 per 100. 



Mariposa. Long, narrow, incurved petals. A de- 

 lightful shade of true pink, intensifled by a deeper 

 centre. One of the gigantic California introduc- 

 tions which has depth as well as diameter of flower. 

 An absolutely stiff stem, w^hich rises nearly three 

 feet above the foliage, a centre which is regular and 

 perfect. .$5.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 100. 



All the Dahlias listed above will be supplied in dormant roots 



