BESSIE BOSTON DAHLIA FARM, SAN MATEO, CAL. 
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CACTUS DAHUIAS — General Collection (Continued) 
RHEINISCHER FROHSIIVN — A most wonderful cactus: its erect stem, large- 
size and beautiful coloring of shaded pinlc mal<e it a great favorite 
as a cut flower. A mass of blooms all season make it an ornament 
to the garden. Then, too, it has all the best exhibition qualities; 50c. 
RITFUS — Just the brightest red imaginable; large; 35c. 
RUPERT — Yellow ground heavily suffused apricot, excellent garden variety 
on long stem; 50c. 
SANHV — Creamy golden-tan, attractive flower, on fine stem. 
SAiV FR.VxVClSCO — Very large flower of reddish-bronze; hybrid cactu.';; 75c. 
SCORPION — Clear yellow, incurved and interlaced, almost globular; 35c. 
SEAGULL — White, with picotee edge of crimson; not of good habit; 50c. 
SNOWDON — Pure white; one of the best whites. 
SNOWSTORM — A large, bold, white flower of fine form, free-flowering; ;{5c. 
SOUTHERA' BELLE — Rich crimson-maroon flower with great depth, fine for 
exhibition; 35c. 
S^T^-UAV — Freely producing blooms of yellow shaded with salmon-pink. 
SWEET ItKIAU — Every one who sees this dahlia is charmed with its exquisite 
liink color and splendid stem, carrying the flower perfectly up- 
i'ight; 3,jc. 
THE Ql^VKEU — Loveliest flower of white tinged with lightest flesh-pink; the 
plants are dwarf and wiry-wooded, prodvicing an abundance of 
flowers; .50c. 
ITIE IMP — The darkest dahlia, almost black, and beautifully incur^•ed, free- 
flowering; 35c. 
TOKIO — Coloi', soft I'ink and salmon; good; 35c. 
UR.ViN'US — White, thickly speckled and striped vermilion-scarlet, iiendant 
llower stem; 3.5c. 
U2VIQ.UE — Ueautiful flower of deep red with pure white tips; quite distinct 
variety'. Plants in May; 50c. 
VALPARAISO — Coral-i-ed, fine erect stems; 35c. 
VILIvI*:; 1)E LVON — Beautiful hybrid cactus, white shading to rose; 35c. 
VIOLETTA — Free-floAvering variety of violet-purple. 
W^ACHT AM RHEIIV — Fine pale pink flowers on long stems, fine for cutting; ;j,>c. 
WALKURE — Hybrid cactus of immense size, g'olden yellow shading to lighter 
yellow, strong grower. Plants in May; 75c. 
WOLFGANG . VON GOETHE — Rich apricot with carmine shadings, fine erect 
stems. 
WHITE ENSIGN — Quite one of the best for cut flowers; creamy white; it Is 
very free and of good quality. 
WOOAN — Hybrid cactus of salmon-rose color, large bold flower with great 
depth, strong- grower and profuse bloomer; .35c. 
YELLOW HAMMER. — Deep pure yellow of large size, fine garden cactus 
variety; stems long and rigid; 35c. 
YELLOW KING — A huge hybrid cactus. It is a pleasure to boost this variety. 
The flowers are boi'ne well above the foliage on stems stiff as a cajier 
color yellow shading to lighter at the tips; one of the most attractive 
of all types; $1.50 
NEW DECORATIVE DAHLIAS OF OUR OWN 
CREATION 
The flowers are large and full, with loosely formed, long flat petals. 
Some of the latest introductions have a remarkably stril-cing appearance, 
and are certainly valuable for cutting or for decoration of large beds or 
borders, possessing such necessary qiutlifications as freedom of flowering, 
combined with size of the blooms and attractive coloring. 
COMELINESS — We take great pleasuri; in inti-oducing this fine, new, pink 
decorative, and are recommending it most highly. The coloring- is 
excellent, soft pink shading to white. It is the highest type of 
decorative: low-gi-oAving, fi-ee-flowering, atid fine stems. It is a true 
decorative form from the beginning to the end of the season, never 
taking- a peony form. The flowers are large; .152.50. 
