Br ic. 
B. C. (S.C, A) A light blend of mauve pink 
blending to creamy white in center, 
My faith in this new giant from Canada was well 
rewarded. B,. C. really made an enviable record for 
itself last summer. At the annual show of the Badger 
State Dahlia Society at Madison, Wisconsin, it took 
Largest Bloom in the show. 
The next week at the annual show of the Dahlia 
Society of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, B. C. was run- 
B. C. and Rosemary Freibert compliment each 
other at Summit Gardens. 
ner-up to largest in show, which was my own 
bloom of Tops. One of my blooms of B. C. en- 
tered in this show received a special trophy for 
“Meritorius Variety of Foreign Origin”, the same 
honor it won at this show in 1949 when it was first 
exhibited in this country. 
The following week at the annual show of the 
Central States Dahlia Society in Chicago, B. C. 
was largest Bloom in the show. (This is the bloom 
depicted on front cover of catalog with son Bruce. 
In two consecutive years I have had the good for- 
tune to be able to photograph Bruce with dahlias of 
mine judged largest in the Chicago show. Last year’s 
largest was Tops.) 
B. C. also gave a good account of itself at the 
Midwest Show in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in spite 
of a gruelling 485-mile automobile trip through Sun- 
day traffic the day before the show. Four blooms 
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