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MAD RIVER GARDENS 
Novelties from The American Home 
1933 Honor Roll 
The following descriptions are for the most part, taken from Mr. Derrell W. 
Hart’s Honor Roll: 
BUCKEYE KING (Peck) F. D. A sensation at Chicago and Cincinnati, and some of 
the reports from the Mid-West state this is a better Dahlia than its garden 
mate Buckeye Bride. 1 cannot as yet make that claim for it, but if it is even 
as good as its garden mate, it will last for many years as a popular variety. 
Color yellow. Strong Plants $5.00 
ELINOR M. RADELL (Felsinger), I. D., 1933. The blooms, of good substance, are 
deep rose pink at center shading to amaranth pink at edges. At the A. D. S. 
Trial Grounds at Storrs, this dahlia received a certificate the past season and 
was truly outstanding because of its strong, rugged growth which should with¬ 
stand adverse growing conditions. It qualified equally well in color, stem, form 
and size and is prolific in its flowering habits. 
Plants $2.50 
ELISSA LAN Dl (Cordes-Eastman) F. D. Winner as Best Undisseminated Formal 
Dahlia at Camden Show. It is most unfortunate for the disseminator’s sake that 
this fine Dahlia could not be shown more this year. It received a Certificate of 
Merit at Storrs. It is a deep flower of bright orange shading towards gold. 
I had this Dahlia on trial and found it a mighty satisfactory performer. 
Strong Plants $5.00 
GRANDEE (Ballay) I. D. Winner of the American Home Achievement Medal at 
the Dahlia Society of California Show. It is a very large flower of a striking 
combination of Spanish red and golden yellow. The reverse of the petals 
shows a blush of russett red. Grandee also won as Largest Flower at San 
Leandro Flower Festival. Strong Plants $7.50 
HARRIETT NEAL (Wickersham-Ruschmohr) I. D. The most complete description 
I can give of this variety is to say that it is a golden Marmion; deeper in 
color and more refined. I have seen this variety growing for two years and 
it is a very pleasing, distinctive, and satisfactory Dahlia. 
Plants $5.00 Roots $10.00 
HILLCREST CINDERELLA (Scott) I. D. Giant bloom; will keep a week without 
changing the water. Won the largest flower in the 1933 West Virginia show. 
A very poor tuber producer. Honor Roll Dahlia; color cameo pink tipped 
with cosmos. Plants $5.00 Net 
KING OF YELLOWS (Sagamore Gardens) I. D. Perhaps the two color classes that 
afford the keenest competition at the present time are those of yellow and 
red. There were at least a dozen good, new yellows this year and this is 
one of the best. It is a free blooming, fine growing variety of a rich, clear 
golden yellow color. Received Certificate of Merit at Storrs in 1932. 
Plants $2.50 Roots $5.00 
LORD OF AUTUMN (Almy) I. D. Here is a Dahlia that will give the four or five 
top notch exhibition varieties a run for their money. In fact 1 phophesy that 
this variety will win its share of prizes in the specimen bloom classes. It is 
a huge, clear yellow, a very deep flower and a very impressive one. This was 
not shown during the year but I had it on trial, and it is the kind of Dahlia 
that causes a sensation for the dyed-in-the-wool Dahlia fan who likes the big 
flowers. Strong Plants $7.50 
MAN O’WAR (Boone-Rusclnnohr) I. D. An exhibition red can no longer be just 
good to receive recognition. It must be outstanding. I would rate this variety 
as worthy of that term. Winner of the American Home Achievement Medal 
at the West Virginia Dahlia Show in 1932, also a Certificate of Merit at 
Storrs the same year. It is a fine garden variety on account of its splendid 
habits and one of the best keepers among the large flowered varieties. The 
color is a rich, dark carmine red, but with plenty of glow and life. Also a 
variety that will bloom with the earliest and continue right on up to frost. 
Strong Plants $5.00 
