DAHLIAbEL NURSERIES 
Pink Lassie 
MINATURE DAHLIAS 
CULTURE —Miniature dahlias need no disbud¬ 
ding, very little pruning and can be planted closer 
than the larger varieties for landscaping. They 
should not be heavily fertilised or overwatered, but 
grown rather poor the same as pompons. 
These miniature types are especially adaptable to 
use in the home, and are attractive in landscape 
work such as borders, hedges, or for mass plantings, 
and a few of the real dwarf varieties are suitable 
and effective in low borders. See New Dwarf 
Dahlias, page 34. 
MINATURE PEONY DAHLIAS 
BABY ROYAL (West 85S), M P or M S-C, Bloom 
3x2, Bush 3 ft. In the early season or by select¬ 
ing blooms, this variety may be shown as a Minia¬ 
ture Semi-Cactus or as an open center or Peony 
later in the season. Salmon pink shaded apricot 
with yellow at base of petal. A prize winner. .35 
BISHOP OF LANDAFF (86S), M P, Bloom 3 x 
1 / 2 , Bush 4 ft. This is an unusual and very attrac¬ 
tive flower, petals being bright scarlet with a deep 
garnet center. Foliage is lacy of a reddish bronze 
color. Wonderful for landscape effects and home 
arrangements. Very popular as a cut flower. 
Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
PINK DAISY (Dahliadel 85S), M P, Bloom 3 ins., 
Bush 2 Zz to 3 ft. One of the most useful small 
dahlias. For landscape or hedge effect this variety 
is outstanding. Bushes are very broad with literally 
hundreds of blooms at one time and blooms inces¬ 
santly whether seed pods are picked or not. Stems 
are slender, yet stiff, and need no disbudding. Bright 
rose pink, shading lighter at center of flower. There 
are two or three rows of nearly straight petals a- 
round a well proportioned yellow center reminding 
one of a double pink daisy. Roots, .50; Plants, .50 
PINK PEARL, M P, (84S), Bloom 2^, Bush 1 y 2 
ft. Lovely rose pink, showing a golden eye. Petals 
curl and twist. The compact bushes make it very 
desirable in landscape planting, and useful for cut¬ 
ting and arrangements. Roots, .50; Plants, .35 
PINK LASSIE (Moore-Dahliadel 86S), M P, 1938, 
Bloom 3 j/ 2 , Bush 2 Zz ft. Words fail to describe 
this daintiest of Miniatures that just naturally ar¬ 
ranges. A beautiful soft shade of rose pink with 
cream and lighter shadings toward center. Won 
First as Miniature Peony in New York and Camden, 
' Grow 
- Polish fed. 
\ DAHLIAS. 
1937 and first in numerous arrangement classes the 
past two seasons. Bush growth is low, rugged but 
rather open, producing quantities of blooms on long 
slender stems. Really a wonderful dahlia for all 
purposes, landscape, arrangements and a real com¬ 
mercial. Roots, $3.00; Plants, $1.00 
RAIDER, M P, (83S), Bloom 3 x 1 >/£, Bush 2Zz ft. 
Soft violet rose suffused yellow at base of petals, 
which are pointed and twist and curl in a charming 
manner. A robust grower. Stems are graceful. .25 
TINY, Bloom 3, Bush 1 Zz ft. Yellow base suffused 
apricot. .35 
DAHLIA SEED 
Sow in flats or frames in early spring in light soil, 
cover the seed not more than one-fourth inch about 
the same as you would tomatoes, when first pair of 
leaves are well developed transplant into small pots 
or flats and grow in cool temperature until they can 
be planted in the garden. Should they get too large 
pinch back and shift to larger pots or replant in flats 
giving them more room. 
DAHLIA SEEDLINGS in general do not come true 
to their parentage, but do usually show some resem¬ 
blance either in form, color or bush growth. Do 
not expect to grow seedlings of a named variety 
and produce the same variety. 
CACTUS AND DECORATIVE SEED (California 
grown). Mixed seed from varieties that are known 
to be good seed parents. A mixture that should 
give you plenty of good, full-centered dahlias. 
20 Seed, $1.00; 100 Seed, $5.00 
DECORATIVE SEED (Jersey grown) A mixture 
of Formal and Informal Decorative seed saved 
from the best varieties in our trials and a field 
where only big dahlias are grown. 
35 Seed, $1.00; 100 Seed, $2.50 
CACTUS SEED. (Jersey grown) Saved from the 
best Cactus and Semi-Cactus varieties. This seed 
should give you a good percentage of Cactus type 
blooms. 35 Seed, $1.00 
COLLARETTE SEED (mixed) saved from our Col¬ 
larette varieties should produce mostly Collarettes 
and Singles. 35 Seed, .50; 100 Seed, $1.00 
MINIATURE CACTUS AND SEMI-CACTUS 
SEED. This is a very fine strain that should pro¬ 
duce a large percentage of full-centered flowers and 
hold consistently to the cactus type. 35 Seed,, $1.00 
MINIATURE DECORATIVE SEED. Should pro¬ 
duce mostly full-centered decorative Miniatures. 
35 Seed, $1.00 
MINIATURE PEONY SEED. Saved mostly from 
Pink Lassie and other good Peony Miniatures. 
35 Seed, $1.00 
MIXED MINIATURE SEED. 35 Seed, $1.00 
ORCHID FLOWERING SEED produces orchid 
flowering dahlias consistently for us, with some type 
and considerable color variations. 
35 Seed, .50; 100 Seed, $1.00 
POMPON SEED saved from our best pompon var¬ 
ieties. This will give you a large percentage of 
pompon dahlias. 35 Seed, .50 
SINGLE SEED will produce a great number of 
seedlings true to type and can be used very satis¬ 
factorily for a mass of mixed colors. They should 
be planted close for this effect. 50 Seed, .40 
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