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CARL SALBACH 
1934 
DAHLIAS 
CJahlias are the most glorious of all flowers for color in the garden and for indoor 
decoration. They are also most satisfactory because a single bush will produce 
blooms for months, thus giving you continual flowers for a very small expenditure. 
We have eliminated the poor keepers from our list, with the result that all the 
dahlias we grow are fine for cutting. But in addition to this fact, we have conducted 
tests with our dahlias to find which are the most outstanding keepers. 
In our opinion, the results of these experiments are most important to the aver¬ 
age gardener, for they show—not what special culture will do—but what you can 
expect in your own home. Sixteen dahlias have qualified as most outstanding 
keepers, holding from three to five days under average conditions. The following 
find a place among our “Sixteen Best Keepers”: American Triumph, Air Mail 
( I 934), Ellinor Vandeveer, Flaming Meteor, Francesca, Gertrude Fderle, Golden 
Bronze ( I 934 ), Inkyo, Jane Cowl, Jersey’s Beauty, Kentucky, Miss San Francisco, 
Mrs. Carl Salbach, Salbach’s White, Santa Barbara, and Tommy Atkins. 
NEW DAHLIAS 
We are listing two new introductions for I 934, both of which rank among the 
finest dahlias ever grown. 
Golden Bronze, a seedling of our own, is undoubtedly the finest Salbach crea¬ 
tion since Salbach’s White and Mrs. Carl Salbach. It is a Conquistador seedling 
with large cactus blooms colored something like Golden West, but faintly bronzed. 
One of “Sixteen Best Keepers.” We know of no better all-round new dahlia. 
J'he other—Air Mail—we classify as easily the finest lavender we know. 
Splendid blooms of beautiful coloring on uniquely tall, straight stems that stand 
right out of the bush. Farge blooms and one of “Sixteen Best Keepers.” A good 
stock permits us to introduce Air Mail at the unusually low introductory price of 
$1.50 per tuber. 
In addition to these two introductions, we call particular attention to these 
splendid recent creations—Satan, Kaweah, and Miss Berkeley, and to Inkyo, a mod¬ 
erately priced variety that we are listing for the first time. 
CLASSIFICATIONS 
In order to establish a definite classification of dahlias, the American Dahlia Society has recently 
divided dahlias into a number of newly defined types. 
Decoratives are “fully double’’ with generally broad petals. I'he two types of decorative dehlias 
arc: the FORMAL DECORATIVE, which, as the name indicates, is regular in the arrangement of 
the petals, with the outer petals generally flat, and the inner ones cupped; and the INEORMAL 
DECORATIVE which is somewhat irregular in arrangement, with the petals generally long and some¬ 
what twisted. 
CACTUS dahlias are “fully double ” with f unnel-like petals, which give the flower a chrysanthe¬ 
mum like appearance. SEMI-CACTUS are half-way between the cactus and the informal decorative 
types. 
Pompon. Miniature and Single dahlias listed as small flowering types—see page 3 2. 
Abbreviations- F.lJ.- Formal Decorative; I.D. Informal Decorative: ('. Cactus; .S.C. .Semi-Cactus; 
-I’eony. ] he i)omi)on and siiiKle dahlias are not included in this general list, but are described on page 22. 
Our Dahlias are in Bloom from July To November 
