HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIA, PA., WHOLESALE PRICE LIST 29 



DREER'S SELECT DAHLIAS 



All varieties are supplied in strong dormant roots except those specially noted, which can only be furnished in green growing 

 plants ready after April 15th. As the season advances our supply of dormant roots of some of the older varieties becomes exhausted, in 

 which case green growing plants are sent instead. These will give equally as good results as dormant roots, flowering just as freely, 

 and many experienced planters prefer them, and by the time they are cut by frost they will have produced strong roots which can be 

 carried over in the usual way. 



Special Varieties of Dahlias. 



New Colossal Cactus Dahlia Kalif. 



A truly majestic flower, frequently measuring 8 to 9 inches in 

 diameter (one of our California customers wrote us under date of 

 Oct. 8th. I have your Kalif Dahlia nearly a foot in 

 diameter), of perfect Cactus form, in color a pure 

 scarlet. The habit of the plant is all that can be de- 

 sired, growing, with us, about i^z feet high; the 

 gigantic flowers, which are produced very freely, 

 are held erect on strong, stiff stems, making it a 

 most effective and useful variety for cutting as well 

 as for garden decoration. Kalif is of German origin, 

 and is the first variety that has had the distinction 

 of receiving the National German Dahlia Society's 

 highest award— a silver medal. 



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

 $25.00 per 100. 



New Colossal Cactus Dahlia 

 Nibelungenhort. 



This is another distinct introduction which has 

 been greatly admired, with flowers from 7 to 8 

 inches across, composed of rather broad more or 

 less curled and twisted petals of a beautiful shade 

 of old-rose with golden-apricot suffusion. Very 

 free-flowering on Ion? stems; a fine cut flower. 



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

 $25.00 per 100. 



Colossal Cactus Dahlia 

 Etendard de Lyon. 



Even the person who classes all shades of purple 

 as so-called malignant magentas stops to admire 

 this beautiful carmine-rose new giant, which we 

 consider one of the most distinct varieties for garden decora- 

 tion. The flowers are of a hybrid-cactus type, distinct in 

 shape from all others; the petals are broad, curled and wavy 

 and form a flower fully 6 inches in diameter and 4 inches 

 deep, a very large flower, yet without any stiffness or formilitv. 



Plants ready in April. 50 cts. each; $5.00 per doz.; $35.00 per 



GIANT CACTUS DAHLIA WODAN 



COLOSSAL CACTUS DAHLIA 

 ETENDARD DE LYON 



Four Popular Giant Cactus Dahlias. 



Nerthus. The centre of the flower is a rich, glow- 

 ing, bronzy, orange-yellow, passing to a carmine-rose 

 at the tips, thelwhole suffused with a glowing golden 

 color, which gives it an iridescence which it is not 

 possible to describe. 

 Rheinkonig. Pure snow-white flowers of splendid 

 form, 5 i :ches and over in diameter. These are of 

 great substance, lasting splendidly when cut; they 

 are borne on long, stiff stems held well above the 

 foliage, making it as valuable for garden decoration 

 as for cutting. 



Wodan. Bold, large, but not coarse flower, frequently 

 7 inches in diameter, a graceful arrangement of semi- 

 incurved tubular petals 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. 



Paeony=Flowered Dahlia Qeisha. 



The showiest and most attractive of this type yet 

 introduced; of strong growth, with the rich-colored 

 flowers.which are frequently over 8 inches in diameter, 

 standing well above the foliage. These are original in 

 form, consisting of peculiarly twisted and curled 

 petals, of an effective and rich combination of scarlet 

 J rd gold, the centre being yellow, which becomes suf- 

 fused with and deepens to scarlet at the centre of the 

 petals, shading off lighter at the edges. 

 Roots, 35 cts. each; $3.50 per doz.; $25.00 per 100. 



Yellow Show Dahlia. 



Princess Victoria. A sterling variety, 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. 

 Field roots, 10 cts. each; $1.00 per doz.; $8.00 per 100. 



