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There are many reasons for the superiority of our 
dahlia seeds, but perhaps the most important are the 
two following facts: First, the fact that we are blessed 
with a customary spell of Indian Summer late in Sep¬ 
tember or early in October. This means seed-ripening 
weather at the one time when nearly all the dahlias 
come with open centers. As a result, many of our 
seeds come from good pollen or seed parents which 
practically never seed elsewhere. Second, is the way 
in which we always plan our plantings to give the best 
seed. Many of the finest seed parents do not set seed 
readily, therefore we grow them next to other good 
parents which we know will produce seed. Bees, but¬ 
terflies, and insects of all sorts will then carry the pollen 
from one to the other. In addition, Mr. Salbach him¬ 
self gathers pollen from many of the finest varieties and 
crosses them to other likely parents. As we do not 
sell seed from specified parents, some of these especial¬ 
ly fine seeds will find their way into every packet, par¬ 
ticularly the “selected” grade. 
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POMPON DAHLIA SEED 
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Pompon dahlias are the small “button” dahlias. While 
the seed of these do not give 100% pompons, it gives a 
large percentage of attractive “button” dahlias. Besides 
pompons, these seeds usually produce a number of. 
duplex (small flowers with two or three rows of petals) 
dahlias, and often attractive miniature dahlias. 
40 to 50 seeds . pkt. 50c 
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MINIATURE DAHLIA SEED. Our new list- 
{ ings of miniatures now gives us a collection that j 
enables us to offer unusually fine seed—the finest J 
miniature seed obtainable.—Will produce a var- J 
ied and most attractive assortment of small type j 
dahlias.pkt. 50c j 
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ZULU DARK LEAVED STRAIN. A range of red-toned, 
dark leaved dahlias similar to the famous Bishop of Llan- 
daff. Plants run about 2V 2 feet high with blooms duplex 
form in shades of red. Eighty per cent or more come 
dark leaved, although a very few will give light foliage 
plants. Not our own seed, but from a planting which we 
closely inspected and judged as up to our own high standard. 
pkt. 35c; 3 pkts. 75c 
The five dahlias pictured on this page, 
like those on the opposite page, were 
grown in a single patch this season, from 
Salbach seed. 
You can’t lose! Each 
packet gives you a whole gar¬ 
den of flowers and besides 
you have an excellent chance 
of getting a new variety 
worth real money. 
“Any dahlia grower that 
grows dahlias from Salbach 
seeds will get the surprise of 
their life and thrills galore.” 
— New York. 
Many of our customers are 
professional Dahlia growers, 
and while we do not get credit 
for the prize winners they 
raise from our seeds, their re¬ 
orders are ample proof of the 
results they get. 
T have a large red one and 
was offered any price for it. 
I sure could sell them all. I 
also have a big yellow one 
which measured 13 inches 
across.” — Maryland 
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Dahlias are easy to raise 
from seed. 
Customers report growing 
many Dahlias over ten inches 
in diameter. Some over thir¬ 
teen inches. 
“Have fifty standard var¬ 
ieties and ten that I grew 
from your seeds two years 
ago; eight of the ten are just 
as pretty as any I have, and 
I have some mighty fine 
ones.” — Alabama. 
Each Dahlia grown from 
seed is different from every 
other Dahlia—a new variety. 
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“They were the talk of the 
town, and I had visitors from 
all the little towns around 
here come and admire them 
. ... It was hard for me to 
convince them that they grew 
from seed.” — Oklahoma. 
MISS GLORY, MAR- 
GRACE, SATAN, MRS. GEO. 
LE BOUTILLIER, MALIBU 
SUNSET, ANGELO ROSSI, 
and LORD OF AUTUMN 
are just a few of the cham¬ 
pions that help to make our 
Dahlia seed the finest obtain¬ 
able. 
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