ALICE MEUSSDORFFER E 
1935 DAHLIA SOCIET 
Rosalind Keep 
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OUR 1935 INTRODUCTIONS 
Sirius 
American Home Honor Roll. Infor¬ 
mal Decorative. Named for the blue 
star. Hailed at the San Francisco Show 
as the long-awaited blue dahlia. 
Described as grown in New Jersey: 
"Sirius is the nearest to a blue dahlia 
we have to date. Here it is a real blu¬ 
ish purple, with very little of the pink 
in it. An outstanding dahlia and we 
have nothing in any way similar here. 
A very prolific bloomer, it comes early 
and is good late; has a fine bush with 
bloom of perfect bearing. It was very 
fine even in this bad season that we 
had in 1935." 
Sirius 
Described as grown in Kentucky: "Sirius merits its name, 
upright bush, five and one-half feet, covered from early in 
the season with uniformly good bloom. Bluish cast very no¬ 
ticeable.” 
Warwick Carpenter says of Sirius: "It does indeed turn in 
the direction of blue; it has purple, violet or blue in its com¬ 
position, and is thus a most welcome addition to the range of 
dahlia colors, a welcome which it further justifies by other 
strong characteristics of size, shape and bearing." 
Visitors to my garden invariably exclaimed: "A blue 
dahlia!" ^ Roots. $10.00 
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