Co You 
Salutations! 
This list marks our second year of serv- 
ing you as retailers, although it is the 
thirty-second year that we have grown 
choice dahlias for the wholesale seed and 
greenhouse trade. We wish to thank you 
who purchased dahlia roots from us last 
season. We hope you enjoyed your Flori- 
stan Gardens dahlias, and that we again 
may have the privilege of serving you in 
1946. 
In addition to Floristan Gardens dahlias 
we also are offering you this Spring the 
entire stock of Franklin Gardens, Tacoma, 
Washington. Our old friend, Burt Cogs- 
well, passed on last fall. His death is a 
great loss to dahlia fanciers, as he was 
an honest, skillful and enthusiastic grower. 
Mrs. Cogswell will identify herself with 
us and we assure their customers that we 
will try to give the same unexcelled quality 
of service that they have enjoyed in the 
past. 



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SUZANNE DIMM 
THREE NEW FLORISTAN GARDENS DAHLIAS 
THAT YOU WILL LIKE 
MRS. HAL L. SMITH, which we like well enough to 
name for my wife. This informal decorative has haunt- 
ingly beautiful ten inch blooms in a delicate, iridescent 
mother-of-pearl blending most difficult to describe. The 
petals are narrow and twisting and the bloom balls 
back gracefully more than half as deep as it is wide. 
The six-foot bush has well placed laterals with light 
green foliage. The flowers face up and out on won- 
Cer Oncws Sinise st Meee tert Oh etna ehea eras Root $10.00 

PANTATA, a formal decorative in brilliant molten cop- 
per with a light tango reverse which shows in the 
turn of the petals. The blooms grow to twelve inches 
and are medium deep. They face up and out on exceed- 
ingly long stems. The foliage on the four-foot bush is 
dark green and long and large. When we can produce 
this in sufficient quantity to bring the price down, this 
will be a fine dahlia for mass plantings.....Root $10.00 
SUZANNE DIMM. This very formal decorative is an 
especially fine cut flower that also will keep for days 
and days on the bush. The nine-inch blooms are five 
inches deep and are a warm buff with orange tone, tan 
at the petal base and all the colors deepening at the 
center of the blossom. They face out and up on very 
lonc, = sirong siems. [he medium “sized ioliage is 
leathery and stiff, The laterals are nicely placed on 
the six-foot bush. An exceptionally good root maker. 
Re OO ee MEP RS T hie ki ead tne TRAM Ls apes Root $10.00 
FLORISTAN GARDENS 
Rt. 2, Box 808, BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON 

