By courtesy of the PUTNAM COUNTY NEWS, 
Thursday, September 6. 1934 
Dahlia Of Rare 
Beauty Named For 
The Lady Of Giez 
Michael A. Batto, Noted 
Horticulturist, Would 
Have It Perpetuate the 
Memory of Mrs. Charles 
deRham in Every Garden 
Something new in dahlias will 
be shown September 20th and 
21st at the Hotel Pennsylvania, 
New York City, when the Amer¬ 
ican Dahlia Society’s annual 
Fall show is held. This is a glor¬ 
ious pale gold dahlia grown by 
Michael A. Batto, of New York 
City, in his dahlia fields on the 
Greulich estate between Cold 
Spring and Garrison. A point 
of particular interest locally and 
in New York City and Long Is¬ 
land is the new dahlia’s name. 
It has been christened The 
Lady of Giez (Emily Hone Foster 
deRham) whose loss by death to 
the community occurred just as 
the first glorious bud of this po¬ 
tentially famous flower was un¬ 
folding to the sun. 
It’s difficult to conceive a more 
beautiful tribute to one who 
lived a life as useful and perfec 
as Mrs. Charles deRham. 
Every Fall Mr. Batto has pro¬ 
duced something new in the way 
of dahlas. He has in his fieldis 
now several specimens that have 
never before been seen, but he 
admits that he excelled himself 
on the Lady of Giez. 
And because this gorgeous 
bloom originated on the banks 
of the Hudson just around the 
dip and bend of the highroad 
so near to what was the earthly 
home of the Lady of Giez and 
In its radiant pale gold beauty, 
shining above the heads of other 
stately blooms is so typical of 
What he had heard of this Lady 
of Giez the grower named it for 
her as a monument to perpet¬ 
uate her memory in gardens 
everywhere. 
Michael Batto is a member of 
the American Dahlia Society of 
the Hudson Valley Dahlia and 
Gladiolus Society and of the 
Virginia Dahlia Society. He has 
grown and shown plants all 
over the East. 
Every season the American 
Dahlia Society looks for him to 
spring something particularly 
and distinctively beautiful at 
their annual shows. This year 
they will meet several surprises. 
There are, for instance, the black 
dahlia not as yet named, and the 
Arizona Sunset, both of them 
spectacularly lovely. 
But the champion and glory 
of the fields is the Lady of Giez. 
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By courtesy of the DAILY NEWS, 
Tarrytown, N. Y\, 
Friday. November 2, 1934 
Mammoth Dahlia Wins 
Popularity Contest 
Adirondack Sunset, a mammoth 
scarlet and gold dahlia, was an¬ 
nounced yesterday as the season’s 
winner in the popularity contest 
conducted during the height of the 
blooming season at the New York 
Botanical Garden. Ranking second 
was the newly introduced Lord of 
Autumn, a great yellow bloom on a 
tall, strong plant. 
Voters this year evinced a par¬ 
tiality for showy masses of large 
flowers, usually of the brighter 
colors. Small types, of which about 
60 varieties were shown, had scarce¬ 
ly a chance because they did not 
bloom their best until near the end 
of the season. 
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