credited us with winning with Buckeye King, which 
is a formal decorative. If you have a cut flower trade, 
you cannot afford to be without this fine addition to 
your collection of utility varieties. 
Root $5.00 Plant $2.50 
CLARA CARDER. (Kemp) 1936. ID. 10-12 ins. x 5 ins. 
deep. Bush 4-4^ ft. Almost a border line dahlia 
between formal and informal decorative. Color, a 
cyclamen pink with flush of yellow at the base that 
lights the entire flower. Blooms are produced in great 
profusion from early season till cut down by frost. 
Very good stems make this dahlia ideal for staging 
at shows or for decorative purposes. First prize in 
the undisseminated seedling class at the 1935 Detroit 
and Michigan state shows. Honor Roll. 
Root $5.00 Plant $2.50 
DAD SMITH. (H. L. Smith-Lloyds Dahlia Gardens). 
1935. FD. 5-7 ins. x 4-5 ins. deep; 4%-5 V 2 ft. tall. 
A full centered formal decorative with each petal 
colored a pleasing combination of bright red, edged 
deep yellow. Blooms early, always facing or slightly 
up on a slender, cane stiff stems. Its exceptional 
keeping qualities make it one of the best basket 
exhibition and florist dahlias. Good propagator. 
Produces good clumps of roots, that winter well, most 
of them showing eyes. The year introduced, we 
commented on this dahlia “Not the largest, but will 
win in the arrangement and best keeper classes’’. In 
1935, won sweepstakes basket classes in the Olympia 
and Tacoma, Wash, shows. Won two sweepstakes in 
basket classes in Holland, where it competed with the 
best European dahlias. Our florists favorite in this 
color. 
Root $2.00 Plant $1.00 
DADDY KEMP (Kemp). 1935, ID, 5-6 ft., 10x6 ins. A 
rich purplish red that has been grown 14 x 7 ins. deep. 
