The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 559
r ofthe common or showdahlias, was singlein its wild state.The first perfectlydouble flowers wereobtained by M. Dan-kclaar of the Piotan-ic:d (lardens of Hel-giuMi in 1S14. andfnim this so u r c ccame the well knowndouble varieties socommon in- the gar-dens of the East ahalf century ago. Dahlia… … the de c cir a t i V etype. \v li i c h isabout forty yearsold, and most re-cently the HybridCactus and thepeony class, whichdates back but afew years and arebecoming v e r vpopular. Indeed, themarvelous trans-formation wroughtin the wonderfulflower in the pastthirty - four yearsmust seem tothose…
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