36 DREER'S FLORISTS SPECIALS 



Dreer's Select Dahlias 



We offer in this booklet only the very choicest cut-flower varieties. For complete 

 descriptive list see our Garden Book for 1915 and our General Wholesale Price List. 



All varieties are supplied in strong field roots except where otherwise noted. - 

 After our supply of roots of the standard sorts is exhausted we send growing plants 

 which will give equally good results. 



Three Colossal Cactus Dahlias 



Kalif. A pure scarlet of gigantic size, but of perfect cactus form without any 

 coarseness, usually from 8 to 9 inches in diameter. One of our California patrons 

 on October 8th wrote, "I have your Kalif Dahlia nearly a foot in diameter." 

 Kalif is a variety that has come to stay, it is free-flowering and has no weak points 

 that we know of, last year it was sold at $2.50 each, we have worked up a large 

 stock and we now offer plants ready in April at the popular price of 35 cts. each ; 

 $3.50 per doz. ; $25.00 per 100. 



Etendard de Lyon. This is of the Hybrid Cactus type and entirely distinct in 

 shape from all other sorts, the petals are broad, curled and wavy, forming a flower 

 fully 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches deep, a very large flower, but without any 

 stiffness or formality, in color it is of an attractive and pleasing shade of carmine-rose. 

 Plants ready in April, 50 cts. each ; $5.00 per doz. ; $35,00 per 100. 



Nibelungenhort. A novelty that appeals to everyone on account of its soft color 

 which is a beautiful shade of old-rose with a lively glistening golden-apricot suffu- 

 sion, the flowers are from 7 to 8 inches across, composed of rather broad more or 

 less twisted and curled petals, and are produced very freely on long stiff stems. 

 Plants ready in April, 35 cts. each ; $3.50 per doz. ; $25.00 per 100. 



Four Popular Giant Cactus Dahlias 



Nerthus. Rich, glowing, bronzy, orange-yellow, passing to a carmine-rose at the 

 tips, the whole suffused with a glowing golden color. 



Rheinkonig. Pure show-white flowers of splendid form, 5 inches and over in 

 diameter. These are of great substance, lasting splendidly when cut. 



Wodan. Bold, large, but not coarse flower, frequently 7 inches in diameter, of a 

 pleasing, delicate salmon-rose color, shading to old-gold in the centre. 



Wolfgang von Goethe. Large, gracefully -arranged, perfect flowers of a rich 



apricot, carmine shadings. 

 Any of the above four varieties in field roots, 15 cts. each ; $1.50 per doz. ; $10.00 



per 100. 



