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FORMAL DECORATIVE DAHLIAS 
BUCKEYE BRIDE (Roberts-Peck 85), c g e, 
Bloom 8x5, Bush 6 ft. This impressive flower 
was one of the favorites in our trial grounds. The 
bush is a tall, rugged grower. It is an early and 
continuous bloomer on long, erect stems. Color, a 
distinctive even shade of salmon pink. Plants, .50 
CASPER G. WARE (Bowen-Dahliadel 80), g e, 
Bloom 8x4, Bush 4 ft. Grown without disbud¬ 
ding, you have a mass of color throughout the sea¬ 
son. For exhibition or cutting, prune out, leaving 
only four to eight shoots ; and by side pruning you 
will have blooms up to 9 inches in diameter, on good 
stems. Color is a pleasing shade of bright, silvery 
violet rose. .35 
ELITE GLORY (Kennedy 83), g e, Bloom 10 x 4, 
Bush 4 / 2 ft. A dahlia that has had a long run of 
popularity and is still good. Color, rich red. Blooms 
large, of good form and substance and held erect on 
strong stems. Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
GOLDEN ECLIPSE (Badetty 84), 1934, c g e, 
Bloom 8x4, Bush 5J/2 ft. A clear, golden yellow 
with salmon and flesh shadings at the center. Won 
as the best Formal Decorative in the Seedling Class 
in New York in 1932. Certified at Storrs, 1933, and 
a tall, vigorous grower with long stems. Its remark¬ 
able keeping qualities assure its popularity as a com¬ 
mercial as well as an exhibition dahlia. 
Roots, $3.00; Plants, $1.50 
JACK’S BEAN STALK (Dahliadel 85), 1934, c g, 
Bloom 6x5, Bush 10 ft. This freak reminds one 
of Jersey’s Beauty in form and color as it is a bright, 
pure rose pink. Blooms complete back to stem even 
more than Jersey’s Beauty, making a ball. If you 
have a building you wish to screen or if you want to 
cut your blooms from a second story window, this 
dahlia will fill the bill, as it can easily be grown 10 
ft. and probably more with a little feeding. Fool 
your friends with this trick dahlia and let them 
guess how you ever grew Jersey’s Beauty so tall. 
Roots, $2.00; Plants, $1.00 
JERSEY’S BEAUTY fWaite 86), c g e, Bloom 
6x4, Bush 6/2 ft. Probably the most popular of 
any dahlia, especially as a cut flower. The ideal 
pink for exhibition or florist use. Large, deep 
flowers of perfect form on long stems. Free, early 
bloomer, with exceptional keeping qualities. 
Roots, .35; Plants, .35 
KENTUCKY (Castlewood 86), c g e, Bloom 7x5, 
Bush 6 ft. This dahlia has the same ideal charac¬ 
teristics as Jersey’s Beauty, of which it is a sport, 
and apparently a stronger grower. Its color is the 
Jersey Beauty’s pink, with a lot of yellow and gold 
blended in, making it more of a salmon pink. Good 
for cutting. Roots, .50; Plants, .35 
OLD HICKORY (Dahliadel 85), c g e, Bloom 7 x 
5, Bush 3^2 «. The dahlia that is easy to grow. 
A rough-and-ready, rugged plant, semi-dwarf with 
each branch bearing a large bloom which is almost 
a ball with centers always full. Stems are ideal for 
basket arrangement, and the blooms are wonderful 
keepers. Color, madder red with apricot suffusions. 
Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
The World 
RISING SUN (DeWilde 83), c g, Bloom 7x3, 
Bush 4J/2 ft. A very much admired and attractive 
variety. Color, sunflower yellow shaded and suf¬ 
fused fire red. Stems are strong and erect, holding 
the flowers facing partially upright. Not one of the 
largest flowers, but very pleasing in color effect. .50 
SALEM PRIDE (Sickler 83), g e, Bloom 10 x 5, 
Bush 4 ft. A rather spectacular dahlia. Color, 
reddish violet, suffused and lightly streaked white. 
Blooms are large and deep on good stems when dis¬ 
budded. Bush rather compact and of nice growth 
for the front of your garden. 
Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
THE WORLD (Dahliadel 85), c g e, Bloom 9 x 
4/ 2 , Bush 5 ft. The coloring is an unusually rich, 
deep, rosy magenta, overlaid garnet, with silver shad¬ 
ings on edges of petals. A rich and beautiful com¬ 
bination of colors. Perfect, full centers. Stems are 
strong and erect. Foliage is thick and leathery. A 
good sturdy grower. This dahlia has good substance, 
but it is best not to let it bloom in the extreme hot 
weather, but cut back for blooms in cool weather, 
when the color will be as described. 
Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
PRICE VS. QUALITY 
There are dahlias offered at lower prices than ours 
and we realize it is a temptation to buy at as low a 
figure as possible. We know you want to get as much 
as you can for your money; but to have 100% success, 
you must have the best stock that can be produced. 
Buying inferior stock at low cost is not an economical 
way to buy and seldom is the way to success. 
DAHLIA ROOTS OR TUBERS 
It has been common practice to call dahlia roots, 
"tubers." This is not correct botanically, as a tuber is 
a thickened or fleshy portion of underground stem 
having eyes or buds, from which new plants are pro¬ 
duced, such as the potato; while a root does not 
contain eyes or buds. In the case of the dahlia, we 
really have a tuberous root with eyes on the crown 
and not on the true root itself. New varieties or 
species of plants grown from roots, not tubers, are 
patentable under the new plant patent act. This makes 
it necessary to call a dahlia root by its correct name. 
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