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SUCCESS DAHLIA GARDENS, LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS 
New and 
Standard Varieties that are Champions 
in Garden and Show Room 
ACHIEVEMENT (Inf. Dec.) (Ballay) 
Gold with bronze shadings. This year we beg 
to submit a good Dahlia that carries with it the 
most coveted honor. Winner of the 1930 Am¬ 
erican Home Achievement medal at the Palace 
Hotel for the best new introduction west of the 
Rocky Mountains, we have given it the name that 
will emphasize its position. It has been tried out 
in both East and West with equal success. In 
depth as well as diameter this Dahlia is one of the 
very largest grown, and the formation of the 
flower is most pleasing, the many petals being 
curled and twisted in an artistic fashion. The 
good substance insures a wealth of perfect blooms 
under all weather conditions. Stems could not be 
improved upon either as to length or strength. 
This variety was one of the outstanding new 
Dahlias at the National Show in New York in 
1931 and on the Pacific Coast. Another Honor 
Roll Dahlia. 
Root $2.50 
AMBASSADOR (Semi-Cactus) 
This beautiful Dahlia has always been a prize¬ 
winner. The color is a soft yellow center with 
salmon, amber and pink shadings, gradually deep¬ 
ening towards the tips and outer floral rays. Has 
won prizes for the largest in the show. Sold for 
$50.00 per bulb when introduced. 
Root $1.00 
erican Home Achievement Medals the first year 
shown. Be.st undisseminated seedling in many ex¬ 
hibitions and many other worthy awards. It is 
a very large artistically formed combination of 
apricot-buff with primrose at base of petals. 
Throughout the flowers are tints and sometimes 
stripes of salmon. An Honor Roll Dahlia of 
great merit. 
Root $10.00 Net Plant $3.75 
BETTY COLTER (I. Dec.) (Success) 
This is a most charming new introduction that 
has caused favorable comment from many of the 
most prominent judges in the East. Derrill W. 
Hart describes this variety on the American Home 
Honor Roll for 1931 as follows, “One of our 
favorites among the new Dahlias. The color is 
distinctive and pleasing, an even shade of light 
salmon red throughout, shading to old rose at 
base of long rolled petals. The flower is nicely 
formed on good stems.” We have never seen 
better stems on any Dahlia and this variety should 
appeal to those who like something different in 
their garden. Mr. Derrill W. Hart quotes in his 
1933 Honor Roll: “T^is Dahlia never has received 
the attention that it deserved.” Forget about the 
low price and grow this winner for your next 
show. We guarantee this Dahlia to please or 
money back. The bloom is very large and ex¬ 
cellent for exhibition. 
Root $3.00 Two Roots $5.00 
AMERICAN LEGION (A. D. F.) 
A beautiful yellow semi-eactus; the wonder 
Dahlia of the day. The tall, robust bush, with its 
heavy green foliage, holding the giant, deep flower 
boldly in the air on splendid long stems, makes a 
rare and extremely showy effect. 
Root $5.00 
ALBATROSS (I. Dec.) (Ballay-Success) 
Soft cream shading to greenish yellow at the 
center, in cool weather the tips of the petals 
sometimes being lightly touched with apple-blossom 
pink. This new Dahlia is large as all popular 
new Dahlias must be, it has delightful and un¬ 
usual coloring, and the formation is strikingly 
distinctive with petalage suggestive of the water- 
lily. A huge pond-lily is what it looks like with 
its petals broad and flat at the base and turned 
upward decidedly at the tips. We have never 
been enthusiastic about floating a Dahlia in a 
bowl, yet this one would not look out of place 
used in that way. However, there is no need of 
it, as the stem is very strong, holding the flower 
always upright. Center is full and closed all 
season. In Lawrence, Mass., where it was grown 
for the first time away from home, it conducted 
itself especially well and created quite a sensation. 
NOTE: This variety as grown in the East had 
a very pronounced overcast of pink or pale laven¬ 
der at very center of bloom which greatly added 
to its beauty. So unusual in its formation and 
color blending this variety is bound to be one of 
the sensations of the year. 
Root $7.50 Plant $3.75 
AMELIA EARHART (S. C.) 
This new variety was greatly admired in the 
show room last season and won its full share of 
prizes. It has the distinetion of winning two Am¬ 
CARO NOME (Inf. Dec.) (New) 
We are all looking for something different than 
the other fellow grows, but still we hesitate to 
buy a little known Dahlia. Our business is dig¬ 
ging up the little known Dahlias for our cus¬ 
tomers to win with and we are offering this grand 
Dahlia. It has everything a good Dahlia should 
have, and it is so different. A rich, rosy pink, 
suffused lilac. Don’t worry about size, it has 
plenty size to meet the elite, great depth and won¬ 
der stems, the kind we pray for on the new 
varieties. Buy it. 
Root $3.00 net 
CELESTE (Dec.) 
Lilac pink overlaid with carmine. A very hand¬ 
some large flower that is attractive especially 
because of its peculiar shadings of color. The 
well-branched plant produces deep, well-built 
blooms over a long period. There are no faults 
noticeable to take from the general usefulness of 
this valuable addition to Dahlias of this color 
range. 
Root $2.00 
CHARLES G. REED (F. Dec.) (Ballay. 
Success) 
Purple red. This is the color in plainest words. 
Exactly petunia red is what an authority on dress 
materials called it. Has won numerous prizes and 
is a Roll of Honor Dahlia. We have just been 
informed that it won this year as the Best Bloom 
in the Show at the National Show in London, 
England. Also won the same prize at the Dahlia 
Show in St. Louis, Mo. It is an unusually large 
variety held upright on a perfect stem. Bush is 
of rather low growth with the branching habit 
which makes it ideal for all purposes. The big, 
broad petals, a deep full center, and the great 
profusion of bloom, have caused visitors from 
