BALLAY-SUCCESS SUPER DAHLIA INTRODUCTIONS FOR 1935 
BOSPHORUS (Inf. Dec.) 
Deep burnt orange or golden brown. A fine, 
large, well shaped flower in a color that is new 
m our experience. It is a dark flower, almost as 
deep in the orange tone in the body of the flower 
as maroon is to red, but shades to a lighter orange 
at the edges of the petals. We recommend this 
iJahlia on its color, but it is charming and satis¬ 
factory in all respects. This variety should be 
grown strong from the start like Full Moon and 
some other Dahlias with stalky habits, it will have 
a long straight stem and will be immensely at¬ 
tractive when cut. Certificate of Merit at Storrs. 
Root $15.00 Plant $7.50 
CALIFORNIA IDOL (Inf. Dec.) 
Clear bright self-colored yellow. We have never 
had more confidence in the real merits of a new 
Dahlia than we have in this masterful brilliant 
yellow decorative. In size it ranks with the very 
largest, growing to 14 inches or more, has cor¬ 
responding depth, and yet is an extremely refined 
flower in every sense. It won the American Home 
Achievement Medal at Boston and the Dahlia 
Society of California’s Gold Medal at San Fran¬ 
cisco as the Best Undisseminated Three-Year- 
Old. This, you will agree is a good start, but 
we hold that the proof of the pudding is in the 
eating, and unless a Dahlia can win for the pur¬ 
chaser, Achievement Medals and Gold Medals do 
not mean much. We assure you that California 
Idol, like many of our previous great prize win¬ 
ners, has the capacity to win as the Largest 
Dahlia or Best Dahlia in the leading shows. Next 
year when we can tell you about these winnings, 
we will feel that we have a real sales argument. 
It has been freely said by those who have seen 
California Idol that it is the best Dahlia since 
Satan, and others have said that it is the best of 
all. Truly a Dahlia the exhibitor can win with 
and the commercial grower can sell. We will not 
attempt a detailed description more than to say 
that ft is an early and free bloomer and an ex¬ 
cellent root maker. You will have to grow it to 
appreciate it. Included in the American Home’s 
list of “Dahlias of Distinction in 1934,” and also 
in Mr. Derrill W. Hart’s Dahlia Review published 
in the December issue of House Beautiful. Mr. 
Hart's impression of it follows: “This giant yellow 
has a coast-to-coast record as a 1934 winner. At 
the show of the Dahlia Society of California it 
won the Gold Medal as Best Three-Year-Old 
Seedling. At Boston it won the Achievement 
Medal as Best Undisseminated Dahlia. It was 
one of the outstanding varieties at Storrs this 
year. It is a fine grower with a deep flower of 
clear glistening yellow, a true pastel shade. Here 
will be a new competitor in the specimen bloom 
classes.” 
Root $25.00 Plant $12.50 
CALIFORNIA ROSE (Inf. Dec.) 
Clear bright rose. Exquisite coloring, large, 
tall-growing, describe in a few words the salient 
features of this unusually satisfactory new Dahlia. 
California Rose is also included in Mr. Hart’s 
1934 Dahlia Review. For a number of years, Mr. 
Hart, in his annual Roll of Honor, has been able 
to select with remarkable accuracy the future 
Dahlia favorites. We quote Mr. Hart’s state¬ 
ment: “One of the most beautiful of the novelties, 
and I must assume it was not shown in Califor¬ 
nia or else we should have heard more about it. 
A bright salmon rose and a particularly beautiful 
flower for cutting. It was the best keeper I had 
on trial this year. Flower large, but extremely 
graceful.” 
Root $15.00 Plant $7.50 
BOSPHORUS (Upper) CALIFORNIA IDOL (Upper) 
CALIFORNIA ROSE (Lower) DON JUAN (Lower) 
DON JUAN (Semi-Cac.) 
Scarlet orange with a reverse of lighter orange. 
This is one of the truly spectacular varieties and 
should add to the fame of Ballay-Success Dahlias 
in the “Giants of the Show Room” class. If you 
have a crown flower of Don Juan for the show 
you will be hard to beat. Later flowers will be 
very numerous and large but an occasional one 
may have a crook in the stem. This variety is a 
true semi-cactus with the center rows of petals 
rather broad and spreading, but with the outer 
rows decidedly rolled and well incurved. Color is 
just about as bright as it is possible for a color 
to be. It has brought favorable comment from 
those who have seen it growing, and from the 
exhibitor’s point of view we consider it one of 
the most sensational of the year’s introductions. 
Don’t pass up this super-dahlia. 
Root $15.00 Plant $7.50 
DRUM MAJOR (For. Bee.) 
Pale gold with a reverse of deeper gold. A 
very, very tall Dahlia, standing head and shoul¬ 
ders above all the rest, and very large and showy. 
Not an early nor particularly free bloomer, but 
all flowers are perfect on extremely good strong 
stems. Have you ever needed some large flowers 
on 4-foot canes to top off your exhibit? This 
variety will serve that purpose and may win a 
prize for you too. 
Root $10.00 Plant $5.00 
GLAMOUR (Inf. Dec.) 
Bright apricot overlaid with sunset pink. This 
is one of the finest of our new introductions, a 
12-inch flower with perfect form and delightful 
color. The color resembles somewhat Chautauqua 
Sunset and the stem is long and the plant well 
branched. As we are writing this on Nov. 12th, 
there are still many large closed-centered flowers 
on the bushes that we are cutting to sell. 
Root $10.00 Plant $5.00 
HAPPY CHOICE (Inf. Dec.) 
Although it is on the border line of the formal 
type. From among the new sorts we chose this 
one to introduce and we consider it a HAPPY 
CHOICE. Upstanding, very large and free bloom¬ 
ing, with the blooms above the foliage on the 
best of rigid long stems, it is one of the largest 
we have grown, 13 inches without forcing. In¬ 
sects do not like this variety, it is too sturdy and 
thrifty for them to feast on. The color is very 
pleasing, but hard to describe, perhaps the best 
description would be, light salmon orange with 
tones of coral pink. Yes, it has a Show record, 
runner up at one Show for the Achievement 
Medal and three firsts as an undisseminated seed¬ 
ling. Just started on its journey in the footsteps 
of our former introductions. We do not exag¬ 
gerate about our Dahlias and when we say, this 
is one of the best of our introductions, we mean 
it. If you do not agree, we are ready to refund 
th~ purchase price. 
Happy Choice has been growing in our garden, 
next to unreleased creations that are on Derril 
W. Hart’s 1934 Honor Roll, we have had a 
chance to compare its merit with some of Mr. 
Hart’s s-leetions. We have but recently decided 
to releas“ this one and too late for Honor Roll 
consideration. 
Root $10.00 Plant $5.00 
MAY DAY (Inf. Dec.) 
Rosy pink lightly touched with gold. A variety 
of medium size that is an exceedingly prolific 
bloomer. Pleasing formation and excellent color¬ 
ing that everyone loves. It will never win as the 
largest flower in the show, but with a few plants 
it would not be hard to have a vase or basket of 
12 or even 25. At the California Flower Festival, 
where our display again received the First Prize, 
a large bowl of this Dahlia combined with the 
maroon colored blooms of Domino was a novel 
arrangement and one that attracted a great deal 
of attention. Certificate of Merit at Storrs. 
Root $10.00 Plant $5.00 
NORTH STAR (Semi-Cac.) 
Light yellow. If this Dahlia were finer petaled, 
it would belong to that rare class of cactus called 
straight. The regularly formed flower is at once 
suggestive of a star. Size and stem are good and 
it is another that will supply many good flowers 
until late in the season. Furthermore, it is a 
good keeper and we do not hesitate to recommend 
it as a very useful and beautiful cut flower. 
Root $10.00 Plant $5.00 
