Dahlias of Quality Kemp's Gardens 

1940 Introductions—Continued 
IMPROVED WHITE JERSEY’S BEAUTY~—F. D. (Pittman-Kemp, 
1940). We wish you could have seen this beautiful white dahlia 
in our test garden season of 1941. It reminded one more of a 
large white Chrysanthemum than the bloom of a dahlia. 
The bloom is of true Jersey's Beauty type, and is about 7 inches 
across, with a depth nearly equalling its width. Blooms are held 
high out of the foliage on stiff stems, and are borne on healthy, 
vigorous plants 5-6 feet high. An early and prolific bloomer. In 
short, it has everything you could ask for. 
No other white we have knowledge of can equal it as a gen- 
eral purpose variety. 
Divisions each $3.75, Plants each $1.50, 3 for $3.75 
PREMIER’S WINSOME~I. D. (Premier). This is unquestionably 
the greatest and most attractive pink since Kathleen Norris, and 
is a wonderfully easy doer. Its massive blooms are produced in 
great abundance, and reach a maximum size of 11 x 6 inches. 
Stems slender but very strong and straight. Foliage heavy and 
leather like, which is very discouraging to leaf eating insects. 
A great prize winning variety you cannot afford to pass up. 
You can grow this great pink dahlia to perfection without much 
feeding and pampering. 
Roots each $2.00, Plants each $1.00, 3 for $2.00 
Root stock quite limited. 
JEFFERSONIAN~—This giant pink Decorative Dahlia is just about 
tops in the pink section. It is slightly darker in color than Pre- 
mier’s Winsome, is of the same type of flower, and grows equally 
large. The plant is not as tall a grower as the Premier, but is 
vigorous and a good doer. The plant attains to a height of around 
five feet, is well branched and prolific of large exhibition blooms, 
many of them 12 by 6 inches, stems long and stiff, holding the 
blooms well above the top foliage. A great dahlia that will prove 
a great prize winner in the pink and largest bloom classes. 
Roots each $1.50, Plants $1.00 each, 3 for $2.00 
CROYDON ACME~—(Australian). Of the many Australian Dah- 
lias we have tested out in our trial gardens, this wonderful Helio 
Pink dahlia can be ranked as one of the greatest formal Giant 
Decorative Dahlias we have ever grown. The giant exhibition 
blooms can easily be grown up to 12 inches and over in diameter 
by 6 inches in depth. It is in our opinion the greatest dahlia of 
its color ever introduced. The plant is a medium tall grower, 
reaching a maximum height of slightly over four feet. It is well 
branched, wide spreading and very productive of large exhibition 
blooms, and it is no uncommon thing to see 6 to 8 giant blooms 
develop on the plant without fading or burning. Stems are perfect, 
long, strong, and seldom show any signs of leaf growth or branch 
within 12 inches of the flower. Taken as a whole, we know of 
no other variety regardless of color that has so many good quali- 
ties as this one. 
It is a healthy, clean grower, good root maker, and ranks tops 
as an exhibition variety. If it has any faults we failed to dis- 
cover them. 
Roots each $3.00, Plants $1.50 each, 3 for $3.00 
Special offer, 1 plant each of Premier's Winsome, Jeffersonian and 
Croydon Acme $3.00 delivered. 
PROGRESS~—I. D. (Salem, 1940). An exhibition dahlia of great size, 
perfect formation and excellent quality. The 11 x 6 inch blooms 
are a bright rosy mauve, and are held high out of the luxuriant 
clean growing foliage on long stiff stems. The plant is a rampant 
grower going up to a height of 5 to 7 feet. is well branched and 
dependable bloomer, and can withstand the hottest weather with- 
out stunting. 1939 it won as best specimen seedling at Peeks- 
kill, and the American Home Achievement Medal at Baltimore. 
In our opinion it should have won the Achievement Medal at the 
A. D. S. Show in New York, as it was unquestionably far ahead 
of the variety receiving the award. 
Roots each $3.50, Plants each $1.50, 3 for $3.50 
FLASH~—I. C. or S. C. (Salem, 1940). This is the most striking 
bi-color Cactus introduced in many years, if not the most strik- 
ing of any ever introduced. Its colors are red with white tips 
and are usually serrated doubly, one pair of serrations pointing 
in one direction and the other in the opposite direction. Blooms 
are rated as medium size but we saw blooms fully 10 inches across 
the past season. It is an early and prodigious bloomer. Stems 
good, and plant attains to a height of 4% to 5 feet. Side branches 
very numerous, and requires thinning out of branches for best re- 
sults. 
Strong plants $1.00 each, 3 for $2.00 
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