
A writer in The American 
Dahlia Society’s Bulletin for No- 
vember 1942 states: The incom- 
parable Ivory Princess—something 
special should be said about this 
new variety. Its smooth rich cream 
or old ivory color, its high solid 
center, its full petalage, its per- 
fect semi-cactus form, its rigid but 
graceful stem, its delicacy and its 
perfection of balance, poise, foli- 
age and general artistic appear- 
ance belie the huge size of the in- 
dividual blooms. Flowers 1314 by 
814 inches can be grown by any 
novice. 
Another correspondent in the 
same issue says of Columbia: Co- 
lumbia was a vision of beauty. It 
was not merely alive with sheer 
loveliness but it almost seemed to 
say “See how exquisitely beautiful 
I am. Look at me. I can only 
glow like this for him who under- 
stands and loves me carefully, for 
it was his love and care of me that 
brought into being this beauty 
that is only God’s to give.” T’ll 
never forget the flower. 

