DAHLIAS for 1920 
We realize that there are too many varieties and while we test thousands each year, 
we offer only the very best. We have still further reduced our list this year by omitting 
many of the older varieties that have been superseded by similar but better ones. 
At the request of many of our customers we have used large type to designate the 
very best. This will greatly simplify the selection for beginners and those with small 
grounds. 
Classification and Culture 
We will send free on request our eight-page pamphlet on culture and classification. 
New Book "The Dahlia"— Fifth Edition 
_ By Laurence K. Peacock, 80 pages, 7}i by 10%, beautifully illustrated. Fifth and 
revised edition. A practical treatise on its habits, characteristics, classification, culture and 
history, by one who for 34 years has never failed to have a crop of the finest blooms, in 
their season, regardless of conditions. Price, 50c. postpaid. FREE on request with all 
orders amounting to $5.00 or more. 
QUEEN MARY 0° tne front cover page is shown a half-tone reproduction of a 
photograph of this grand decorative, that has proven its worth 
as the best pink. The size is large to very large, full high center, even up to November 
5th, 1919, when it was the only variety that was not showing a per cent of open center 
flowers. 
The color is a clear silvery cerese pink. 
The plant is a strong, healthy, vigorous, upright, branching grower, producing the 
giant flowers freely, on long stiff stems, until killed by frost. Strong root, 50c. 
MRS. HOWARD M. EARL^ . ( See illustration on last cover page). Another 
— ; 1 year has more fully demonstrated the merits of 
this greatest of all paeony-flowered dahlias. The illustration will give an accurate idea of 
its beautiful form — light, graceful, artistic; but, no conception of its wonderful color com- 
binations, great size, long stems, vigorous growth, rugged constitution, and last, but not 
least, freedom of bloom. 
The color is soft yellow at base of the petals, shading to salmon-pink and carmine and 
tinting lighter at the tips ; a combination most pleasing and appealing. 
MRS. HOWARD M. EARL was easi ly the most beautifully striking dahlia 
; on our grounds the past three years, attracting 
far more attention than Geisha. It is of the same general type, but more beautifully 
formed, and a most wonderful combination of harmonious shades and tints ; being a cross 
of Geisha and Mrs. Wm. Kerr, it has the rugged constitution of the latter, combined with 
the free growing and blooming qualities of the former. 
The plant is a very strong vigorous grower, of the same character as Geisha, but 
more robust, with dark healthy foliage. The flowers are larger and borne in great free- 
dom, on long, slender, wiry stems. 
MRS. HOWARD M. EARL wi] l succeed everywhere, as it is a strong 
vigorous grower, producing strong roots that 
keep well. The flowers grow 7 to 10 inches in diameter and keep much "better than 
Geisha, making them one of the most valuable for cut flowers and particular decorations. 
Specimen plants last year in the hardy border on the grounds of Mrs. T. H. Bennett 
at Spring Lake, New Jersey, stood six feet high, three feet across and had 15 to 20 giant 
flowers each, during August, September, and October. Price, strong roots, $2.00 each. 
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