Dahlia Catalogue for 1914 
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Les Amours de Madame. New Giant Fancy 
Dahlia. Delicate pale rose, striped scarlet. 
A beautiful combination of color and uni¬ 
versally admired. One or the most pleasing 
Fancy Dahlias grown. $1.00 each. 
Mme. Lily Large. The effective coloring, 
charming appearance, and excellent form 
prove this a perfect gem. An exquisite 
shade of yellow, striped and specked ver¬ 
milion. 50 cents each. 
Rebecca. An exceedingly attractive variety 
of unusual beauty. A charming shade of 
lilac, striped crimson. 50 cents each. 
S. Mortimer. New English Fancy Dahlia. 
Pink ground color, flaked crimson. One of 
the best to date. 50 cents each. 
Sunset. A beautiful golden yellow striped 
and splashed a lively deep scarlet. 50 
cents each. 
Select Standard Fancy Dahlias. 
I will send this Superb Collection of 20 for 
20 cents each, $2.00 per doz.; or the collec¬ 
tion for $3.00 prepaid, to any part of 
North America. I will send the entire 
collection, New Varieties for 1914, Up-to- 
Date Fancy Dahlias for 1914, and Select 
Standard Varieties; thirty-six different va¬ 
rieties, for $12.00 prepaid. 
Dazzler. Deep yellow, striped scarlet. One 
of the best. 
Dorothy. Fawn, flaked and striped deep ma¬ 
roon. 
English Dandy. Deep orange, striped crim¬ 
son. Very large, useful flowers. 
Eric Fisher. Buff, veined and striped scar¬ 
let. Large and very free. 
Frank Smith. Dark maroon, tipped pinkish 
white. Very striking. 
Frederick Smith. Lilac, striped purple. Very 
showy. 
Gen. Grant. Deep orange, striped chocolate. 
Sometimes the flowers will come a solid 
chocolate shade, and even then the flowers 
are extra line shape. 
Geo. Barnes. A Fancy Dahlia of refined 
form, lilac, striped crimson. 
Glorie de Guiscard. In color it is an almost 
indescribable combination of orange red, 
vellow. pink and white. The appearance 
at a little distance of this combination is 
a yellow base overlain pinkish-red with 
white tips. 
Gold Medal. Canary-yellow, striped and 
flaked red. 
Henry Glascock. Deep lilac, striped purple. 
Kaiser Wilhelm. Large flowers, of perfect 
form. Deep yellow, tipped with cherry- 
red. 
Lucy Faucett. Pale yellow, striped deep pink, 
or light magenta. One of the best of this 
set. Very large and free. 
Mrs. Saunders. Soft yellow, tipped white; 
large. 
Polly Sandall. A novel combination of 
bronze-yellow, veined and blotched pink¬ 
ish-white. making it very pleasing and 
showy. Flowers are of good size. 
Rev. j. B. McCamm. Deep yellow, striped 
and flaked light red. Very free. Good size. 
S. Sickman. Purple-crimson, striped white; 
nitched petals. 
Striped Banner. Crimson, tipped white; me¬ 
dium sized flowers. 
Watchman. Red, striped yellow. 
Wizard. A Fancy Dahlia with many combi¬ 
nations of colors—fawn, striped with ma¬ 
roon and tipped white. Very odd. 
POMPON 
The Pompon Dahlias are the finest for cut 
flowers; they bloom more freely than any of 
the other classes. The flowers are small, 
compact, and full to the center, and produced 
upon long - , wiry stems. Extra fine for bou¬ 
quets. 
New Up=to-Date 
I will send these “Three Gems” prepai 
DAHLIAS. 
I have tlie largest and finest collection of 
any firm in America, and won more first 
prizes on this class of Dahlias than any other 
competitor in the 41. S. A. 
Varieties for 1914. 
i to any part of North America for $1.50. 
Dot. Alexander’s Superb New Pompon 
Seedling. An Introduction of 1909, and a 
variety of special merit. This New Dal: I'a 
is properly named; it is a very small, 
compact flower, of splendid habit. Plants 
are literally covered with ideal blossoms ot 
a bright cherry-red; edge of flower tinted 
lighter. 50 cents each. 
Leader. Alexander’s New Pompon Seedling. 
An exceedingly neat, compact flower: of 
perfect form. The color combination is 
remarkable; a clear, lemon yellow, very 
heavily tipped rosy-purple. An entirely 
new color. One of the best in existence. 
75 cents each. Stock limited. 
Little Marion. Alexander’s Ideal New Pom¬ 
pon Seedling. In this little gem, the color¬ 
ing is absolutely unique. The ground color 
is a soft salmon-pink, with a veining of 
crimson through each petal, and effectively 
tipped with a light-reddish amber. A seed¬ 
ling of 1909, of which we are now able to 
offer a very limited supply of roots. 
Flowers of exceptionally fine form, and 
produced with remarkable freedom, upon 
long, wiry stems. 50 cents each. 
