1935 
CARL SALBACH 
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DAHLIA SEEDS — LARGE FLOWERING 
Grow your own $10.00 and $20.00 Dahlias 
At a cost of only $1.00 to $2.50 
You, too, can grow prize-winning dahlias and have a garden full of glorious color and 
continual bloom—all at a most moderate expense. Salbach large flowering dahlia seed is 
personally gathered by Carl Salbach (originator of Golden Bronze, Miss Berkeley, Mrs. Carl 
Salbach, Salbach’s White, Sydney B. Mitchell, Walter E. Magee, and other world recognized 
dahlias) and has long been recognized as the finest strain of dahlia seed obtainable anywhere. 
Better than any description we can give, however, is a citation of some of the results 
actually achieved from Salbach dahlia seed: 
American Home Achievement Medal, Duluth, 1929. 
Award Merit, Amer. Dahlia Soc. Trial Gardens, 1932. 
Award Merit, Amer. Dahlia Soc. Trial Gardens, 1933. 
Best seedling, Palace Hotel Show, 1929. 
Best two-year-old seedling, California Flower Festi¬ 
val, 1930. 
Best two-year-old seedling, California Flower Festi¬ 
val, 1934. 
And the following varieties now listed in our catalog: 
Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt and Grace Houston, Golden 
Bronze, Miss Berkeley, Mrs. Carl Salbach, Sal¬ 
bach’s White, Sydney B. Mitchell and Walter Ma¬ 
gee. 
Further, we have received hundreds of letters 
from amateur growers whose own new varieties (pro¬ 
duced from Salbach seed) have outscored the finest 
varieties in commerce, winning first prizes at dahlia 
shows throughout the land. 
In fact, one garden enthusiast writes: “I was not 
only first, but second and third from seedlings of 
your seed.” Another states that a dahlia from our 
seed “has been the sensation of the entire town,” 
while another customer boasts of having been 
awarded “first prize as the most beautiful flower in 
the show.” Still another customer reports so many 
winners that he tells us “Mr.-, the dahlia man from 
us to sell him some of the bulbs.” 
Besides giving you the finest dahlias obtainable, plantings from our seed permit you to 
choose varieties most adaptable to your climate. This is particularly true for those who live 
where summers are too hot and dry for most dahlias to grow well. Our long experience in 
hybridizing enables us to select the hardiest and most versatile parent stock, and each 
packet carries a goodly percentage of seed qualified to thrive in the interior valleys. 
Each seed that grows (and most of them do) gives you a new plant, entirely different from 
the existing varieties—many being finer than the dahlias already in commerce. The tubers, 
however, come true to the original bush, enabling you to build up a stock of the fine new 
varieties you grow. 
SELECTED DAHLIA SEED (Large Flowering Type). Especially gathered from the best 
flowers of the very finest varieties we list—from parents which have proven their tendency 
to pass on to their offspring size, vigor, keeping quality, and fine colors. Produces the finest 
blooms in varied types and colors. Bloom abundantly from seed the first year planted. 
50 seeds.$1.50 100 seeds...$2.50 
CHOICE DAHLIA SEEDS (Large flowering type). Picked from good seed parents—and 
sometimes produce new varieties as outstanding as those coming from our Selected Seed 
strain. A most inexpensive way to have a gay colorful garden that is just full of blooms over 
an unusually long period. 
100 seeds.$1.00 
Directions for Growing Dahlias from Seed Supplied with Every Package. 
Mr. Salbach hybridizing dahlias 
, Ohio, is trying his best to get 
