NEW DAHLIAS 1940 INTRODUCTIONS 
The many visitors to our garden marveled at our plant¬ 
ing oi seedling dahlias. Unfortunately however, these 
have only been grown for two seasons, and we will not 
know whether they are fixed in their habits and will not 
be able to select those to be introduced until they have 
been grown and tested for another season. 
We are not offering any new dahlias of our own origina¬ 
tion this year, but are fortunate to have purchased the 
complete stock of Cream Wings, a superb cream cactus, 
and Yellow Abundance, a splendid yellow decorative, 
and have also arranged with one of California's best 
growers to list King Cole, a magnificent deep maroon 
informal decorative, Pacifica, a new light yellow semi¬ 
cactus, and Pasadena, a superb rose pink. 
KING COLE 
(Ballay-Salbach 1940) 
I. D. Winner of Sunset Magazine medal at 
the annual show of the Dahlia Society of Cali¬ 
fornia held in San Francisco. This medal was 
for the best dahlia to be introduced in 1940. 
King Cole is one of the largest and most ruby 
colored of all the dork reds. In addition to 
its fine showing as an exhibition variety, the 
performance in the garden was quite impres¬ 
sive. The day we saw it in the field the 
thermometer registered over 100° and King 
Cole stood up beautifully. An ideal grower, 
large blooms, fine stems and a free bloomer. 
Net $15.00 
PASADENA 
(McDonald-Salbach 1940) 
F. D. There has been need for a real rose 
pink dahlia as a commercial cut flower, and 
Pasadena definitely fills this need. It was 
my privilege to see this dahlia exhibited at 
the 1939 Los Angeles County Fair held at 
Pomona, California, where it won first for the 
best 50 blooms, the Achievement Medal for 
the best seedling and five blue ribbons at 
different Southern California shows. It is also 
on the Flower Grower Honor Roll. This tall vig¬ 
orous growing dahlia holds its giant rose pink 
flowers aloft on ideal stems. The blooms are 
perfect in form and have extra good keeping 
qualities, making it, we believe, the best rose 
pink commercial in existence. We feel for¬ 
tunate in being able to offer this fine new 
dahlia to our customers. 
A dahlia that would easily warrant a $15 
introductory price, and it would be listed at 
that price, were it not for the fact that there 
is a good stock available.$5.00 
CREAM WINGS 
"The Newsom Dahlia Manual is the great¬ 
est book written on how to grow dahlias. It 
is the simplest and the easiest book to under¬ 
stand I have ever seen. I am glad I have 
one. It gives more information in a few pages 
than any book written on dahlias today." 
— L. R., California. 
CREAM WINGS 
(Salbach 1940) 
A superb new cactus. Clear rich cream, shad¬ 
ing to light yellow at base of petals. Blooms 
are very large with great depth as shown by 
illustration. The petals are long, tightly rolled 
and slightly incurved. 
The flowers, which are perfectly poised on 
as fine stems as we have ever seen, ore pro¬ 
duced in great abundance all season and hold 
their centers till the very last. The growing 
habits are ideal. Won a number of first 
prizes as a seedling. Net $15.00 
PACIFICA 
(Balloy-Salbach 1940) 
Semi- Cactus of rather unusual shade of light 
yellow with lighter reverse to the petals. Ex¬ 
tremely large, free blooming light yellow, that 
is guite distinctive from other yellow dahlias 
now in commerce. Blooms held high above 
the plant — on strong stems. A splendid new 
light yellow. Winner as the best new semi¬ 
cactus at the San Francisco Show.. ..Net $15.00 
YELLOW ABUNDANCE 
(Salbach 1940) 
Last year we purchased several seedlings 
from a Northern grower. Among these was 
Yellow Abundance, so named because the 
plants are literally covered with big perfect 
deep yellow blooms throughout the season. 
We have never seen so many at one time on 
a single plant. The flowers are large and 
hold their centers till late in the season. The 
color is comparable to that of Lord of Autumn, 
but with us is slightly deeper yellow. The 
plants make a very symmetrical growth with 
luxuriant deep green foliage. The blooms ore 
well distributed over the plant and are held 
on good strong stems. Our large stock per¬ 
mits of a low introductory price. $1.50 
For Raising The Best Dahlias 
Complete, Year-around 
Directions for the care of Dahlias 
given in 
The Newsom Dahlia Manual 
(Revised 1938 Edition) 
Practical Instruction on Preparing, Planting, 
Fertilizing, and Storing of Dahlias. 
Postpaid — 50c per copy 
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