. Dreer's garden book 1932. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 7 PHILADELPHIA^ 145 TWELVE PEERLESS CACTUS DAHLIAS. Ambassador. Color a soft yellow at the centre with salmon, amber and pink shadings, gradually deepening towards the tips. The blending of these colors captivates all. The flowers are of largest size and set just right on perfect stems. Andreas Hofer. A lovely narrow petaled Cactus of ideal form and soft tender coloring. A most delicate shade of pink with salmon
. Dreer's garden book 1932. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. 7 PHILADELPHIA^ 145 TWELVE PEERLESS CACTUS DAHLIAS. Ambassador. Color a soft yellow at the centre with salmon, amber and pink shadings, gradually deepening towards the tips. The blending of these colors captivates all. The flowers are of largest size and set just right on perfect stems. Andreas Hofer. A lovely narrow petaled Cactus of ideal form and soft tender coloring. A most delicate shade of pink with salmon suffusion passing to a creamy-white centre. Its stiff wiry long stems and free habit of bloom make it invaluable for cut flowers as well as for garden decoration. Cigarette. Creamy white, heavily edged with pome- granate red, but it varies greatly, no two flowers being exactly alike. The petals are long and inclined to roll, forming a large, deep, well-shaped flower of great sub- stance on very long stems of best quality. Gladys Bates. Very large perfect flowers, with in- curved petals of a golden salmon, the reverse of the petals being rose, the two colors giving the effect of a golden old-rose. It is an early, free and continuous bloomer. Gladys Sherwood. A wonderful white. We have seen flowers over 10 inches in diameter composed of long curling petals of glistening white forming a flower of unusual depth. Goldene Sonne. Andreas Hofer described above, a variety which, however, is yet but little known, is one of the finest and most graceful delicate pink Cactus varieties we know. In Goldene Sonne we have its counterpart in formation but with a larger flower and of a rich golden yellow with soft rose suffusion. Hybrid Cactus Dahlia, Jean Chazot or Gay Paree Jean Chazot or Gay Paree. This is one of the very best all- around varieties that has yet been produced. A beautiful golden bronze with a faint touch of Nasturtium red and unsur- passed by any of the autumn tints as a cut fl
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