Dahlia Catalogue for 1913. 
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New Decorative Dahlias. 
New Up-to-Date Varieties for 1913. I will send this ideal collection of 32 
Up-to-date varieties for $30.00, prepaid, to any part of North America. 
American Beauty. A champion Decorative Dahlia; and. a seedling from the 
well known French Decorative Le Closse; being almost identical in 
form, shape and size. The flowers are of gigantic size and produced on 
long heavy stems, well aoove the foliage. The color of this acquisition 
is a gorgeous wine-crimson. American Beauty is the largest and best 
of its color in existence and can be highly recommended. $1.00 each. 
Baute Lyonnaise. A novel Fancy Decorative of French origin. White, tinted 
and edged scarlet, tipped white. $1.00 each. 
Colosse De Bellecour. Plant of perfect form; flowers large and of a beautiful 
violet, sometimes tipped white. $1.00 each. 
Delice. This is the best pink colored Decorative ever introduced. The flow¬ 
ers are good size, standing well’above the foliage. This variety will al¬ 
ways appeal to every flower lover, the color being a bright pink suffused 
with lavender-pink, very effective. 50 cents each. $5.00 per dozen. 
F. Grinstead. Fancy Decorative. Deep golden yellow, distinctly striped and 
marked a clear and effective crimson red. Very attractive. $1.00 each. 
Frederick Spittel. Another Fancy Decorative. A beautiful vermilion-scarlet, 
often tipped white. $1.00 each. 
Giant Purple or Royal Purple. This New variety is a seedling . from Le 
Closse, 'being identical in form, shape and size. The color is a lively 
shade of royal purple. The flowers are of perfect formation, very dou¬ 
ble and borne on long wiry stems. This giant is destined to be one of 
the finest for exhibition purposes. The unusual heavy demand for this 
variety leaves our stock extremely limited. $1.00 each. 
Giqantea. Its name suggests the size; truly one of.the largest dahlias I am 
offering. It is a soft sulphur-yellow; very distinct; flowers well above 
the plant. 50 cents each. $5.00 per dozen. 
Golden Beauty. A beautiful yellow Decorative Seedling introduced by us 
for the first time, one of the most refined to date. 50 cents each. 
Henry F. Michell. A splended garden and exhibition variety; orange-red ov¬ 
erlaid yellow; very large. $1.00 each. 
Honesty. A very massive, deep flower, of dwarf growth and perfect form, 
The color, beautiful orange scarlet. This is one of our 1912 Seedlings 
and is a perfect beauty. 50 cents each. 
J. K. Alexander. One of my new seedlings of special merit .which can be 
highly recommended, it will have a world-wide reputation in a short 
time because of its excellence and size. This grand Decorative is^a seed¬ 
ling from the well known Le Olosse, and has the exact form oi petals 
and same shape as that famous variety. The color of this beautiful 
flower is a royal shade of clear, rich, violet-purple, which deepens to 
an exquisite deep purple. The gigantic flowers are borne on long, wiry 
stems well above the foliage, giving perfect contrast with the dark green 
foliage. This acquisition produces its mammoth flowers freely and is 
a great advance in the class of exhibition varieties. Stock extremely 
limited. $3.00 each. 
John R. Baldwin. A remarkably handsome variety of the true Decorative 
type. The flowers are uniformly large, very compact and with full high 
centers. In form they are almost identical with that charming variety, 
“Mons. Hoste.” The color is a'beautiful salmon-red. Flowers are.borne 
oil long stems in great profusion, from the earliest summer until late 
in the fall. 50 cents each. $5.00 per dozen. 
