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Excerpt from Distinctive Dahlias, 1928 In this beauty I believe we have a combinatio' very desirable quality that tends to make a per ahlia. First, the stem is perfect. Now that stateme ealize covers a lot of ground, but Rio Rita has just th trong Wiry stem that holds the full large blooms perie wet, and every bloom faces you. When cut with 36 i terns you can, by holding the end in your hand, turn owe1 over and over as you would a pan cake tur l'he foilage isa'rich green-on plants 4 to 5 feet high, he color Geranium Pink (ridgeway) slightly suffused hite. A basket of these blooms was a prize winne Jink class, at the 1927 show of the Dahlia Society of So 1n Cal., at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles. As a c nercial flower is a top notcher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.