1934 
CARL SALBACH 
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DAHLIA SEEDS—LARGE FLOWERING 
Grow your own $10.00 and $20.00 Dahlias 
At a cost of only $1.00 to $2.50 
too, can grow prize-winning dahlias and have a garden full of glorious color and continual bloom 
—all at a most moderate expense. Salbach large flowering dahlia seed is personally gathered by Carl 
Salbach (originator of Golden Bronze, Miss Berkeley, Mrs. Carl Salbach, Salbach’s White, Sydney 
B. Mitchell, Walter E. Magee, and other world recognized dahlias) and has long been recognized as the 
finest strain of dahlia seed obtainable anywhere. 
Better than any description we can give, however, is a citation of some of the results actually achieved 
from Salbach dahlia seed. 
The American Home Achievement Medal was awarded 
to one of our customers for growing the best seedling 
dahlia in the 1929 Duluth show (from our seed) . 
In 193 2, another professional grower received an 
Award of Merit from the American Dahlia Society trial 
gardens at Storrs, Conn., from a dahlia raised from our 
seed. In 1933 a seedling of our own was given an Award 
of Merit at Storrs. 
We ourselves were awarded first for best seedling at 
the 1929 Palace Hotel show, and first for best two year 
old seedling at the 1930 California Flower Festival. 
In addition, dahlias Fresno, Grace Houston, and Mrs. 
Oliver Kelly, all now listed in our catalog, were grown 
from our seed by amateurs. 
Further, we have received hundreds of letters from 
amateur growers whose own new varieties (produced 
from Salbach seed) have outscored the finest varieties in 
commerce, winning first prizes at dahlia shows through¬ 
out the land. 
In fact, one garden enthusiast writes: “I was not only 
first, but second and third from seedlings of your seed.” 
Another states that a dahlia from our seed ‘‘has been the 
sensation of the entire town,” while another customer 
boasts of having been awarded ‘‘first prize as the most 
beautiful flower in the show.” Still another customer Dahlias raised from Salbach Seed by an Amateur 
reports so many winners that he tells us ‘‘Mr.-, the dahlia man from-, Ohio, is trying his best 
to get us to sell him some of the bulbs.” 
Besides giving you the finest dahlias obtainable, plantings from our seed permit you to choose 
varieties most adaptable to your climate. This is particularly true for those who live where summers 
are too hot and dry for most dahlias to grow well. Our long experience in hybridizing enables us to 
select the hardiest and most versatile parent stock, and each packet carries a goodly percentage of seed 
qualified to thrive in the interior valleys. 
Each seed that grows (and most of them do) gives you a new plant, entirely different from the 
existing varieties—many being finer than the dahlias already in commerce. The tubers, however, 
come true to the original bush, enabling you to build up a stock of the fine new varieties you grow. 
SELECTED DAHLIA SEED (Large Flowering Type) Especially gathered from the best flowers 
of the very finest varieties we list—from parents which have proven their tendency to pass on to their 
offspring size, vigor, keeping quality, and fine colors. Produces the finest blooms in varied types and 
colors. Bloom abundantly from seed the first year planted. 
50 seeds.$1.50 100 seeds.$2.50 
CHOICE DAHLIA SEEDS (Large flowering type) Picked from good seed parents—and some¬ 
times produces new varieties as outstanding as those coming from our Selected Seed strain. A most 
inexpensive way to have a gay colorful garden that is just full of blooms over an unusually long period. 
100 seeds.$1.00 
Directions for Growing Dahlias from Seed Supplied with Every Package. 
"Not Only First, But Second and Third .. 
