THE DAHLIA IS GOD'S GIFT TO MANKIND 
50,000 PEOPLE CANT BE WRONG” 
O VER 50,000 dahlia lovers visited the dahlia gardens of the New York 
Botanical Gardens at Bronx Park, N. Y. City on Saturdays and Sundays, 
during the months of September and October, the past season to view the great¬ 
est collection of dahlias ever grown in any one garden, 1600 plants in 435 varie¬ 
ties. These visitors were accorded the privilege of voting for one dahlia, the 
one that they thought to be the most outstanding dahlia in the gardens. 
When the votes were counted, we were very proud to learn that ADIRON¬ 
DACK SUNSET, not only won, but made a runaway race of it. A dahlia 
that can win this distinction, with this company, and competition surely cannot 
be just another dahlia; it must be a super-dahlia and ADIRONDACK SUN¬ 
SET, is all of that and then some. The following are some of the celebrities 
that were grown in competition in the popularity contest against ADIRON¬ 
DACK SUNSET this past season. 
AGNE&fCi. YOUNG 
ALICE CENTLE 
ALICE IN WONDERLAND 
ALYCE MARIE GALVIN 
ALTMARK 
AMELIA EARHART 
AMERICAN LEGION 
ANALEE McCLURE 
ARCTURAS 
ARELDA LLOYD 
BELLATRIX 
BETTY COLTER. 
BONNIE BELMONT 
BOYCHICK 
BRILLIANCE 
BUCKEYE KING 
BALLYROL PEARL 
CAMEO 
CHARLES CHAPLIN 
CHATAUQUA REGAL 
CHATAUQUA ROYAL 
CHATAUQUA SUNSET 
CHIEF JUSTICE 
CHING 
CITY OF CLEVELAND 
CITY OF JAMESTOWN 
CITY OF ROYAL OAK 
CONSERVATRIX 
CRAIG BISSELL 
CROYDEN BEAUTY 
DAISY TURNQUIST 
DOROTHY CROWELL 
DOROTHY MATTHEWS 
EAGLE ROCK FANTASY 
ELEANOR M. RADELL 
ESTHER R. HOLMES 
EUGENIA BALLAY 
EXCELSIOR 
F. W. CHURCH 
FAIR HARBOR 
FOREST FIRE 
FORT MONMOUTH 
FORT WASHINGTON 
FRANK LOCKARD 
FRAU O BRACHT 
GARDENAS LILAC 
GOLDEN ECLIPSE 
GOLDEN HEART 
GOLDEN SONNE 
GOODACRES SENSATION 
GREAT HARBOR 
HARRIET NEALE 
HEATHERBLOOM 
HELCHERUS BEACON 
HILLCREST CINDERELLA 
HILLCREST NUGGET 
HONOR BRIGHT 
IRIQUOIS GIANT 
IRIQUOIS SUNBEAM 
IRIQUOIS SUNRISE 
JANE COWL 
JANE DEW 
JEAN R. ELLIOTT 
JUDGE SAMUEL SEABURY 
JEROME KERN 
KAREOL 
KATHLEEN NORRIS 
KAWEAH 
KING OF BLACKS 
LADY MOYNA PONSONBY 
LILAC GLORY 
LILIAN PYCOCK 
LORD OF AUTUMN 
MADAM OTIS 
MAN O’ WAR 
MARMORA 
MARYLANDS CHIEFTAIN 
MARYLANDS GLORY 
MARYLANDS ORANGE 
MASTADON 
MATT C. ELY 
MISS ELSIE JANE 
MONMOUH CHAMPION 
MRS. ADELAIDE McFALL 
MRS. C. CHAIN 
MRS. GEO. LeBOUTELIER 
MRS JOHN G. METZER 
MT. WHITE HORSE 
MURPHY’S MASTERPIECE 
MYRA HOWARD 
NANNIE SINE 
NEW DEAL 
ORCHID MOONLIGHT 
ORIENTAL GLORY 
ORIENTAL SPLENDOR 
PALE MOONLIGHT 
PALO ALTO 
PARAMOUNT 
PASTEL GLOW 
PAUL PFITZER 
PEACHES 
POTLACH 
POT O’ GOLD 
PRINCETONIAN 
R. A. BROOMFIELD 
RAINBOWS END 
ROBERT EMMETT 
ROCKLEY MOON 
RUBY TAIT 
RUBY TAYLOR 
RUDY VALLEE 
SATAN 
SCHILLER 
SENECAS 
SONNY BOY 
SPITZENBERG 
SPOTLIGHT 
STRONGHEART 
SULTAN OF HILLCREST 
SUNNY SLOPE CORAL GEM 
THE FIREMAN 
THE RED STAR 
TOWERS EMPIRE 
TOWERS TAWNEY 
WENOKA 
WESTWOOD BEAUTY 
WHITE KNIGHT 
WHITE WONDER 
ZIONS PRIDE 
And over 300 other varities, including many un-named seedlings sent by 
well known commercial growers, as well as by many private estates. These 
dahlias were judged where they can be judged best; in the gardens, while they 
were in bloom, and over a period of two months, if there is a better way c»f 
testing and judging a dahlia we would like to know it. 
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