Dreer's garden book : seventy-fourth annual edition 1912 . I. Wbw Cactus Dahlia,Mrs, Henry R. Wirth. New Cactus Dahlia, Delicatissima. Lord MitltO. Very symmetrical flowers with long, quilled petals, which are cleft at the tips, giving the flower a grace not found in any other Dahlia; color centre pale yellow, passing to a soft rosy-salmon at the ends of the petals. Marathon. A brilliant, rich purple, illuminated with higher, brighter shadings; entirely distinct in Pure white, with the faintest touch of silvery-rose in suffusion at the tips of the petals; a S|ilendid

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Dreer's garden book : seventy-fourth annual edition 1912 . I. Wbw Cactus Dahlia,Mrs, Henry R. Wirth. New Cactus Dahlia, Delicatissima. Lord MitltO. Very symmetrical flowers with long, quilled petals, which are cleft at the tips, giving the flower a grace not found in any other Dahlia; color centre pale yellow, passing to a soft rosy-salmon at the ends of the petals. Marathon. A brilliant, rich purple, illuminated with higher, brighter shadings; entirely distinct in Pure white, with the faintest touch of silvery-rose in suffusion at the tips of the petals; a S|ilendid Henry R. Wirth. We offered this splendid Dahlia in1910, but the demand was so strong that we were unable tofill all orders, and we were obliged to withdraw it from ouicatalogue in 1911. We are in position to offer it this sea-son in good plants only, ready May 1st. It is a glorifiedform of the popular Standard Bearer, having flowers of thesame size, but of a more intense, rich, glowing, fiery-scarlet and the freest-flowering high-colored Cactus Dahlia inou

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