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Dahlias Bloom from Seed nearly as soon as from Moots. 



Fancy Double Dahlia 

 Seed. 



This seed is saved from large 

 iouble, fancy and show flowers 

 of the very best quality. 



Packet, 50 seeds, 5c. 



Fancy Dahlia Seed. 



This is a superfine mixture of Cactus 

 Gracilis, single, Pompon and all odd 

 and beautiful varieties mixed. 

 Packet, 50 seeds, 5c. 



Single Giant Perfection. 



The plants are of strong, robust habit, 

 and produce in great abundance flowers 

 of immense size, averaging 6 inches 

 across, of the most bewildering variety 

 of coloring. Packet, 100 seeds, 10c. 



Mixture of Single Dahlias. 



Including all the novelties. Packet, 5c. 



DAHLIJt. 



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Dahlia, Double Cactus- 

 Flowered, 



An extra fine strain of this favor- 

 ite type. Packet, 76 seeds, 10c. 



**Monarch of Dahlias." 



(New Giant Cactus.) 



This beautiful Dahlia is inter- 

 mediate between the double and 

 the Cactus varieties. The lowers 

 are large, loose and very esthetic 

 in form, and measure 6 or 8 inches 

 across. Color : deep, rich, dark red, 

 with a bloom like velvet. Packet, 

 10c.;3for 35c. 



Twentieth Century, or Orchid=Flowered» 



One of the most sensational novelties which has ap- 

 peared in many years. In size the flowers are giants, 4^ 

 to 7 inches across ; the color is a rich rosy crimson, passing 

 to white at the tips. As the season advances the color 

 lightens, until finally they come clear white. suffused with 

 rose. Packet, 15c.; roots, 30c. 



Xew French Sensational Dahlia, 

 Collarette. 



A new and novel type, having a row of short petals 

 around the disc like a frill or collar, which is always of a 

 different color, contrasting with the regular petals. Blooms 

 quickly from seed ; mixed colors. Pkt., 10c. ; roots, 30c. 



Kriemhilde. An exquisite delicate shell-pink, shad- 

 ing to white in the center ; undoubtedly 

 the finest and most perfect pink Cactus Dahlia to date, 

 and is a cut flower likely to supersede all the other pink 

 sorts. Roots, 35c. 



Dahlia Gloria. 



(An Absolutely New Class.) The 

 disc or center of the flower is highly 



Dahlia GtOria-'from a Photograph 



developed, as shown in the illustration, while the sur- 

 rounding rays are arranged as in the ordinary single 

 types, yet it is not a single Dahlia. The ray flowers are 

 variously formed, including the cactus type, the single or 

 flat type, and the incurved or show type. AH the known 

 Dahlia colors and tints, and more besides, are found in 

 this new sort. The seed here offered is direct from the 

 originator. Seeds planted in May bloomed in August. 

 Mixed colors. Packet, lOco; 8 for 86c, 



SEE INDEX FOR GENERAL I.IST DAHLIA PLANTS. 



