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CARL SALBACH 
1936 
DAHLIA SEED 
No Greater Garden Value Anywhere Than Salbach Quality Dahlia Seeds 
You can grow your own $10.00 and $20.00 dahlias, and easily, too. All that 
is necessary is a packet of Salbach dahlia seed, water, and ground to grow 
them in. Hundreds of our customers have already grown fine prize winning 
dahlias from our seed, and many have named and introduced dahlias grown 
from Salbach seed. Grace Houston and Dr. Aurelia Reinhardt, for instance, 
both listed in our catalog, were grown from seed purchased from us. 
There are many reasons for the superiority of our dahlia seeds, but per¬ 
haps the most important is the fact that we always plan our dahlia plantings 
to produce the best possible seeds. Many of the finest parents, such as Angelo 
Rossi, Kaweah, and Satan do not seed 
well. The only way to get any number 
of seeds from such parents is to grow them 
next to varieties that are known to set 
seed easily. Bees, butterflies, and insects 
of all sorts will then carry the pollen from 
one to the other. In addition, Mr. Salbach 
himself gathers pollen from varieties such 
as mentioned, as well as other new kinds, 
as Frank Serpa, Forest Fire, Cavalcade, 
Lord of Autumn, Lavender Lady, and Con¬ 
quistador, which he crosses to likely par¬ 
ents. As we do not sell seed from specified 
parents, some of these specially fine seeds 
will find their way into every packet, par¬ 
ticularly the “Selected” grade. 
The most apt demonstration of the ex¬ 
cellence of Salbach dahlia seed is shown 
by the tenor of the thousands of unsolic¬ 
ited testimonials that we have received 
praising the quality of our dahlia seed. 
Typical are the following: 
“I was not only first, but second and third from dahlias of your 
seed”; “Mr., the dahlia man from., Ohio, is trying his 
best to get us to sell him some of the bulbs.” Another reports that he 
was awarded “first prize as most beautiful dahlia in the show” with 
a variety produced from our seed. Still another states that a dahlia 
from our seed “has been the sensation of the entire town.” 
We do not have a complete record of the prize-winnings of the varieties 
raised from our seed, but we do know a few, which include the following 
major awards: 
American Home Achievement Medal, Duluth, 1929. 
Award Merit, American Dahlia Society Trial Gardens, 1932. 
Award Merit, American Dahlia Society Trial Gardens, 1933. 
Best seedling, Palace Hotel Show, 1929. 
Best two-year-old seedling, California Flower Festival, 1930. 
Best two-year-old seedling, California Flower Festival, 1934. 
MR. SALBACH, 
Hybridizing Dahlias 
