ROSEMARY DAHLIA GARDENS, MARTINS PERRY, OHIO 
NAGELS GIANT* 
Informal Decorative 
Sensational immense dahlia of most delightful 
form, is one of the largest. The massive flowers 
measuring over 14 inches in diameter. Color rich 
salmon with gold. Good stiff and erect stems. 
The growth of the plant is ideal. It is also an 
exceptionally free and early bloomer. Extra for 
exhibition. Certificate of Merit, France. Honor 
Roll Dahlia. Root stock limited. 
Roots $2.50. Plants $1.00. 
MARGRACE (Bissell) 
Informal Decorative—1936 
Color, bright red, tipped gold with light re¬ 
verse, size 10 X 6 inches ; strong, stiff stem 8 to 
10 inches ; position good, heavy and wide spread¬ 
ing foliage : plant 5 to 6 feet in height; medium 
early bloomer; blooms hold their size well and 
centers always closed. Received certificate at 
Storrs this year. Won informal decorative sweep- 
stakes in seedling class at Mid West Show, also 
a blue ribbon at Michigan State Show. This 
dahlia made about the best record of all dahlias 
for the past year, receiving three certificates also 
an Honor Roll dahlia. 
Roots 50c. 
S^OLKAERT’S CHAMPION* 
Semi-Cactus 
The most beautiful Belgian introduction in this 
color. Large flowers are regularly formed with 
blended petals. The stems are strong and long, 
color is yellow with salmon suffusions. For cut 
flower purposes and exhibitions a champion. Root 
stock limited. 
Roots $2.50. Plants $1.00. 
MY DELIGHT (Salem) 
Formal Decorative—1939 
Blooms 8 by 4 inches. Bush height medium. 
A mallow purple or pinkish mauve lavender like 
Mrs. Warner on the outer three-fourths of the 
petals while the base of each petal is white and 
gradually blends with the outer color. Form 
regular, petals falling back with a slight twist, 
centers high. Well developed blooms held facing 
to looking up on erect, strong stems. 
Roots $2.00. 
CALIFORNIA IDOL (Ballay-Success) 
Informal Decorative—1935 
Clear bright self-colored yellow. In size it 
ranks with the very largest, growing to 14 inches 
or more, has corresponding depth, and yet is an 
extremely refined flower in every sense. It won 
the American Home Achievement Medal at Boston 
and the Dahlia Society of California’s Gold Medal 
at San Francisco as the best undisseminated three 
year old. We assure you that California Idol has 
the capacity to win as the Largest Dahlia or Best 
Dahlia in leading shows. At the show of the 
Dahlia Society of California it won the Gold 
Medal as Best Three Year Old Seedling. At 
Boston it won the Achievement Medal as the Best 
Undisseminated Dahlia. It was one of the out¬ 
standing varieties at Storrs this year. It is a 
fine grower with deep flower of clear glistening 
yellow, a true pastel shade. Here will be a new 
competitor in the specimen bloom classes. Extra 
good stock. 
Roots 75c. 
.JESSICA DRAGONETTE (Jones-Ailing) 
Semi-Cactus—1935 
Named in honor of this most charming and 
petite radio star at the 1934 A. D. S. exhibition 
in New York. Comparison with the color chart 
shows the colors to be picric yellow suffused with 
Venetian pink. However, a description which we 
think more readily visualized would be peach and 
cream with a shading of deeper pink on the re¬ 
verse of the petals. The type is semi-cactus 
making the huge blooms both deep and massive. 
The plants are rugged growing with good stout 
stems and produce an abundance of blooms. One 
of the few varieties on Derrill Hart’s 1934 Honor 
Roll. 
Roots 75c. 
MRS. HERBERT O’CONNOR (Berwick- 
Dahliadel) Incurved-Cactus—1936 
Here we have a high scoring dahlia, and for 
all around merit the best American Cactus 
novelty of the year. Classed sometimes as an 
incurved cactus, but at times the blooms might 
he called Semi-Cactus. It is a heavy petalled 
flower of bright rose-pink deepening to a darker 
rose-pink at the center, with a base of soft 
golden tan. Tall growing plant with long stems. 
The color of this dahlia is so bright it makes 
most other pinks look a bit faded. Blooms early 
and continues through the season with perfect 
blooms. An Honor Roll Dahlia. 
Roots 50c. 
SHIRLEY TEMPLE* (Brown) 
This fine new variety was described as a Semi- 
Cactus, but for us it came a huge straight cactus 
growing a flower 12 x 6 inches. It has long 
strong stems and a very strong grower. The 
flowers face the side and are really beautiful. An 
Achievement dahlia, winning the American Home 
Medal. Color is a soft, lavender pink. 
Plants Only $1.00. 
RICHARD KLIMPT* 
Informal Decorative 
A very bright red and supposed to be improved 
Murphy’s Masterpiece. Strong grower and a 
producer of many blooms which keep well when 
cut. Certificate of Merit in Holland. Root stock 
limited. 
Roots $2.50. Plants $1.00. 
CALIFORNIA PEACH (Ballay-Success) 
Semi-Cactus—1936 
Bright coral or peach pink, a pink without any 
trace of lavender. Reverse of petals, a lighter 
shade. Size and formation of this flower are 
very similar to Satan. It is a seedling of Satan 
crossed with Eagle Rock Fantasy and the foliage 
and general habit of growth are much like the 
latter. The good qualities of both parents have 
been improved upon, if anything, in this origin¬ 
ation. A great bloom of Satan of rich glowing 
pink is a dream come true. California Peach 
was the great sensation at the Boston Show, win¬ 
ning there as the Best Flower in the Show, the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Medal, as 
the Best New Dahlia, and also the Achievement 
Medal. Winner also the Best Undisseminated 
Semi-Cactus at San Francisco. This variety will 
prove to be worth far more than we are asking 
but we do not want to make our prices out of 
the reach of many real dahlia lovers. As it is 
*A11 dahlias marked with asterisks are of European origination. 
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