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HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA 



Choice Double 



Show Dahlias 



A. D. Livcni. A splendid 

 clear pink, beautifull> 

 quilled, of perfect form 

 and very free-flowering. 



Arabella, Light sulphur- 

 yellow, shaded peach - 

 blossom on edges; a fine 

 flower. 



Caleb Powers. Best d e- 

 scribed as an improve- 

 ment in size, coloring, 

 and even in earliness, to 

 the popular variety, 

 Susan, offered in this 

 list, a delicate shell-pink 

 of splendid form. 50 cts. 

 each; $5.00 per doz. 



Chas. Lanier. The largest 

 deep yellow Show Dahlia 

 to date. Very rich yel- 

 low and fine for cutting. 



Colonist. A peculiarly col- 

 ored variety, the centre 

 of the petal's coral-red, 

 edges and tips suffused 

 and shaded purple-lake, 

 of fine form. 



Duchess of Cambridge. Base of petals 

 white suffused pink, heavily tipped 

 dark crimson. 



David Johnson, a beautifully quilled almost 

 globular flower of a peculiar bronzy shade 

 of shrimp pink. 



Emily. Solferino, with white markings; very large 

 and free-flowering. 



Ethel Britton. Creamy white, lightly suffused and 

 tipped with solf erino-red. 



Gracchus. Orange, shaded apricot; a fine flower. 



Hero. Aniline-red, of fine shade. 



Isis. A new sort of immense size, large petals, full 

 double, orange-scarlet suffused with carmine, with 

 golden sheen at the tips. 50 cts. each. 



John Thorpe. A fine large solferino-red. 



John Walker. An elegant pure white. 



SHOW DAHLIA, A. D. LIVONI 



For Wholesale Prices see pages 1 to 4 



SHOW D.\HLIA 

 CALE.B POWEJRS 



Lady Maude Herbert. Pale yellow, shaded peach, 

 heavily tipped crimson. 



Mme. Alfred Moreau. The most perfect large pure 

 mauve-pink; a splendid flower. 



Mariner. Apricot, suffused and tipped with carmine- 

 lake. 



Miss May Loomis. White suffused with soft rose. 



Pandora, a new variety of most delicate soft mauve- 

 pink of absolutely perfect form. 35 cts. each. 



Princess Victoria, a sterling novelty, being the 

 earliest and freest-flowering primrose-yellow; never 

 produces an imperfect flower and is in bloom early 

 and late; long, stiff stems; fine for cutting. 30 cts. 

 each. 



Pendent. An early and profuse-flowering crimson- 

 maroon. 



Queen Victoria a popular light yellow. 

 Red Hussar. Pure cardinal red. 



Southern Queen. A large, absolutely perfect flower of 

 a deep rosy-mauve, with darker shadings. 



Susan. Probably no Dahlia ever introduced by us has 

 given such universal satisfaction as this, a beauti- 

 ful, delicate, soft shell-pink, of splendid form, re- 

 markably early and free flowering, with long stems; 

 splendid for cutting. 



W. W. Rawson. An exceptionally fine shaped massive 

 large double flower which is produced on long 

 stems; color pure white, delicately overlaid with 

 mauve. Plants, 50 cts. each. 



Yellow Livoni. Undoubtedly the most perfectly quilled 

 Dahlia grown; flowers of medium size, but very 

 perfect, of a soft lemon yellow. 25 cts. each. 



PRICE— Any of the above, except where noted, 20c 

 each; $2.00 per dozen; $15.00 per 100. Collection 

 of one each of the 27 varieties for $5.50. 



