Flower at the California Flower Festival. For great 
size we are inclined to think Grandee surpasses them 
all. We have had 15-inch blooms without forcing or 
shading on plants 4 feet tall. Six blooms all 14 inches 
or more at one time on a plant are not unusual and 
the size is maintained through the whole season. We 
do not exaggerate when offering a new Dahlia. We 
introduced Satan as a 12^ inch bloom and a 14^2 
inch specimen appeared at the New York Show this 
year. We said Full Moon was a 12 inch Dahlia and 
it has since been grown to 14 inches. As Grandee 
grew at Lawrence, Mass., Mr, Reed said he never 
saw a Dahlia that produced so many large blooms 
throughout the season. What it will be like when 
grown especially for size we do not know. Beautiful 
coloring, good formation, ffrst-class stem, are all pres¬ 
ent in this superlative Dahlia. It is, of course, on the 
Roll of Honor and we quote what Mr. Hart says 
about it: “Grandee is a very large flower of a strik¬ 
ing combination of Spanish red and golden yellow. 
The reverse of the petals shows a blush of russet red. 
‘Great’ is indeed the right adjective to use here. It 
has individuality.” Root $15. Plant $7.50. 
GOLDEN ECLIPSE. A 1934 Introduction. Unques¬ 
tionably the finest and most valuable Dahlia of re¬ 
cent introduction. First shown in the A. D. S. Show, 
New York, where it won the first prizes, both in the 
Best Undisseminated and the Best Formal Decorative 
Classes. At Brooklyn this year, it won first prize as 
the best keeping Dahlia. Also Certificate of Merit at 
American Dahlia Society Trial Grounds, Storrs, 1933. 
The color is clear golden yellow with slight blushes 
of salmon on some of the petals, shading to bright 
rich salmon in the center. A pleasing, glowing com¬ 
bination of autumn colors that is as brilliant under 
artificial light as in the open. The plant is excep¬ 
tionally vigorous in growth, ranging from five to 
seven feet in height, the flowers average from eight 
to ten inches in diameter with a depth of five inches. 
They are gracefully poised on strong stems, which 
can be cut up to four feet long. Roots $7. Plants $3. 
“KING OF THE BLACKS.”.. (Kunzman) Formal, 
decorative Dahlia of giant size, very free-looming on 
long, stiff, natural stems without disbudding. Color 
is the darkest rich velvet red, almost black, and holds 
color in any weather. Bush is ideal; low and spread¬ 
ing, with flowers high above bush. On October 8th, 
1933, at the New York Botanical Gardens, it had re¬ 
ceived the second largest number of votes as to de¬ 
sirability, among more than 1100 of the best dahlias, 
grown there. Also rated very high at World’s Fair 
Show at Chicago. Roots $10 each. Plants $5 each. 
MONMOUTH RADIANCE,^ I. D. (Kemp) In this 
wonderfully beautiful dahlia is presented a color com¬ 
bination of light coral pink with primrose suffusion 
rear half of petals, giving the flower a brilliant coral 
pink front effect with deep primrose back ground 
that radiates throughout the entire flower. It is 
beautiful from whatever angle it is viewed. It is a 
true informal decorative and the flowers reach a 
diameter of 11 inches and over b}?^ a depth of 5 to 6 
inches, and are held high above the foliage on long 
stems. Plant is an exceedingly strong robust grower, 
attaining to a height of 6 to 7 feet, is many branched, 
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