Golden Rule Dahlia Farm, Lebanon, Ohio 
Golden Rule Introductions for 1936 
“Golden Rule Introductions give me the greatest value in beauty” 
QUEEN CITY 
I N respect to beauty, performance and utility as a florist’s flower Queen City is 
our most outstanding introduction to date. 
The color, after viewing the flowers in the house day after day, will be classed 
as pink. It is not red in the ordinary conception of the color. It is pinkish light scarlet. 
We call it “scarlet pink.” The illustration exactly reproduces this remarkable color. 
This Dahlia was described on Page 4 of our 1935 catalogue and everything we said 
about it then held true during the season of 1935. Since then, in competition with very 
large blooms, it has won many honors at the Dahlia shows including: 
American Home Achievement at Indiana Dahlia Society’s show; 0. V. D. A. 
Achievement at Cincinnati; 1st as Formal Decorative at both Cincinnati 
and Cleveland; 1st as best keeper at both shows. All undisseminated 
classes. 
Queen City was awarded Certificate of Merit at the 0. V. D. A. Trial Grounds 
at Cincinnati, scoring 89 points. From May planting it produces flowers from July till 
frost, blooming during the hot weather periods when the average dahlia is not good 
and these hot weather flowers keep the longest. 
The florist is discriminating. He wants a flower that will keep and that will handle 
well in a variety of decorations. Queen City is the first variety since Jersey’s Beauty 
that we have grown with full success as a florist’s flower and it produces at least three 
times as many blooms. The stems are 100% long and straight. It should of course, 
be disbudded and the flowers should be cut as soon as the first petals start to turn 
back, and placed in a cool dark place. Within a few hours, the flower will then open 
fully to a ball 5 to 7 inches across. Don’t leave the flowers for long on the bush. Cut 
them; beautify your home with these lovely flowers, and the bushes will surprise you 
by quickly producing many more. Queen City likes to be planted early. It does not 
deteriorate during the hot weather. 
We have shipped Queen City this season to Cleveland; Columbus, Ind.; Port 
Huron, Mich.; and New York City, by railway express, and at all places they arrived 
in good condition, and after being put on display were outstanding through the end 
of the show. 
Visitors at our farm purchased every bloom of this Dahlia that we could spare. 
It is the best cut-flower dahlia we have ever grown. Although this is a twenty-five 
dollar Dahlia if there ever was one, our adequate stock of nice roots enables us to 
offer it as follows: 
Strong, field-grown root divisions. $ 15.00 each 
Stocky Green Plants . 7.50 each 
Clumps from 5 in. pots (Guaranteed 2 divisions). 11.25 each 
Orders for two or more of Queen City may deduct 10%. 
In naming this dahlia after the city of Cincinnati, we wish to pay tribute to the 
fact that Cincinnati has been, as far back as 1915, the pioneer city of the mid-west 
in growing and showing fine Dahlias, and today grows in great quantity and shows 
each fall as fine Dahlias as can be found anywhere. 
Blooms of Queen City may be ordered to be shipped to any point within 1000 
miles from July 15 to frost. 
Long stemmed flowers, express paid. $ 2.50 per doz. 
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