Cannells’ Floral Guide, 1909i 
Exhibition Dah'lias. 
All lovers and growers of Dahlias should become members of The National Dahlia 
Society, and thus help to extend its influence and usefulness. For full particulars and 
Schedules, apply, Owen Thomas, Esq., c/o Cassell & Co., La Belle Sauvage, E.C. 
have been awarded more Gold Medals than any other firm for 30 years. Although we 
do not grow for competition, we have exhibited large and most complete collections. 
It should be distinctly understood that we grow above 2,000 plants to the greatest 
perfection; in feict, they form quite a grand feature in our Nursery, and the following list is 
unquestionably most complete. 
When these are well grown they are one of the noblest and most beautifully made flowers in 
cultivation, but to grow them well they must have an anxious and industrious master, for 
their wants are continual from June to September. They require a good deep soil, well 
trenched, and full of manure. Obtain, about the end of April, wiry small-stemmed plants, 
shift them at once into 6-inch pots, keep them in a frame with the lights only kept on at night ; 
plant them out when the first warm nights in June arrive, well stake them as they grow, and 
cover the ground with four inches of stable manure, watering them overhead every day, or 
oftener if the weather be very dry, and thinning the lateral shoots out in the case of medium 
growers, but those with large flowers less, supplying the plants when making their flower buds 
with a soaking of liquid manure, besides washing them overhead every night to keep thrip 
from the flowers. The above directions are for show pnrposes, and the following varieties are 
most constant, finest for exhibition, and also make a grand display in shrubbery borders where 
allowed to grow as they like. 
For ten successive years we were awarded by the Royal Horticultural' Society, South Kensington, 
Gold and Silver Gilt Medals for the best and most complete collections. 
BEST QUILLED SHOW VARIETIES. 
Spring Prices,- 6s. per dozen, except those priced; our Selection, 4s. per dozen. 
Pot Roots in Autumn to Spring will be charged at one-third higher prices. 
A ll Flowers with ground colours lighter than that of the tips are show kinds, and are included 
with the self-colours in this class. 
8. ALIOS EMILY — Delicate bufi, centre 
yellow. 
4. ARTHUR OOOOK— Reddish-orange. 
6. ARTHUR RAWUNaS— Dark crim- 
son. 
6. BLOODHOUND — Chestnut red, dis- 
tinct. 
. BLUSH GEM— Blush ground, edged 
purplish rose, shell petal. 
. BOUNDSTONE — Deep pink ; distinct. 
9d. 
7. BROWN BESS — Deep brownish-buff, 
centre and reverse chocolate ; distinct. 
8. BURGUNDY — Dark puce and purple. 
. CALEDONIA — Blush white, slightly 
edged purple ; fine. 
9. COLONIST — Chocolate and fawn. 
11. CRIMSON GLOBE— Crimson. 
16. CHIEFTAIN— Purple-lilac: 
19. CLARA — Rosy peach. 
CLARET CUP — Light claret, tipped 
gold. 9rf. 
20. DR. KEYNES — Buff and red. 
21. DANIEL CORNISH— Terra-cotta red. 
22. DAVID JOHNSON — Salmon and rose. 
DELICACY — Blush white ground, 
edged a delicate pink. 
23. DIADEM — Rich crimson. 
24. DUKE OF FIFE— Rich cardinal. 
26. DUCHESS OF YORK — Lemon, edged 
pink. 
26. ECLIPSE — Orange-scarlet. 
29. ETHEL BRITTON — Blush white, 
edged purple. 
80. ESMOND — I'ellow, very fine. 
. . FAVOURITE — Lovely primrose suf- 
fused salmon pink, slightly tipped purplish rose. 
31. FLAG OF TRUCE— White, flaked lilac. 
82. FLORENCE TRANTER — Blush white, 
edged rosy purple. 
33. FRAICHEUR— Lilac blush, dwarf. 9d. 
84. GEORGE RAWLINGS— Dark maroon. 
. GLORIA — Creamy - white, lavender 
centre. 9rf. 
36. GOLDFINDER — Ifellow, tipped red. 
36. GLOW-WORM — Orange-scarlet. 
. GOLDEN BALL — Bright butter-yellow 
and orange. 9</. 
. GRACCHUS — Bright orange bnff ; 
good. 
37. HARRISON WEIR— Primrose-yellow. 
HARRY LAGDEN— Yellow ground, 
suffused and edged rose ; large. 
38. HENRI DEPRESLE— Orange-scarlet. 
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