the Beautiful, Glorious, Peerless, World Renoned Opera Star 
of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Quoted from 
the report of my Eastern grower: “ELIZABETH RETH- 
BERG was very good: I had six on one bush and 5 on 
the other, and they all averaged 10 inches by nearly as 
Elizabeth Rethberg 
deep. All visitors to my garden just raved over them. I 
did not cut them all, left some, just too see how long they 
would last, and they were good for nearly two weeks; the 
ones I cut proved to be very good cut flowers, lasting a full 
week in the vase. Unfortunately they bloomed too early 
for the shows.” Roots only—$25.00. 
LUCIA VON GONTARD 
Lucia von Gontard 
Formal - decorative. This 
large lovely Dahlia of unusual 
lovely coloring and great depth 
was selected by the beautiful 
and charming Baroness Gert 
von Gontard, to be named for 
her at the Dahlia Society of 
California Show in the Fair¬ 
mont Hotel in San Francisco 
in 1934. The color of this 
lovely flower is a tea rose 
ground, with a warm violet 
rose center, tips and reverse of 
petals violet rose, each petal 
surrounded with the violet rose 
color, suffusing the entire flow¬ 
er with an indescribably 
lovely coloring, Stems are long 
and strong, holding the large 
blooms well up and out of 
the medium tall bush, that 
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