Catalog of Burch Dahlia Garden 1930
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This article is adapted from a dahlia catalog published in 1930 by Burch Dahia Garden of Englewood, California.
This publication is in the public domain
Burch Dahlia Introductions for 1930
Please note that this information is provided for historic reference only. We do not have these dahlias for sale. One dollar in 1930 is worth just under $18 today.
SALMON-ORANGE (R)
ALTA RAY. (Burch) On the SUNKISSED ROLL OF HONOR of the fourteen best large blooms originated on the Pacific Coast. In the color band with Jove, Cowl and El Rey, with the ideal well rounded center of the Oval Decoratives. Too many seedlings of no merit appear in most shows. Our Dahlia Society made a rule this year that ALL seedlings must score an A.D.S. 90 or better to win a Certificate of Merit. This flower was the only one out of the entries of 1927-8-9 to make this score. Night lights give it a lovely oriental iridescence. Tubers, $10.00
LIGHT- PINK
DONNA LOU. (Burch) Now who wants a light pink decorative when all the rest of the world wears a Rainbow ‘round it’s shoulder?’ Whether we want it or not, it still remains the only tint with which to graciously separate two fighting colors in the “French” make ups, or a dozen quarreling plants in the yard. And this one keeps while a half-dozen sunsets come and go. Tubers, $5.00.
ORANGE CHROME (R)
DULCINE. (Burch) A “shaggy” semi-cactus with a color effect of scarlet suffused orange. An orientally “melting” color deepening under artificial lighting. Tubers, $5.00.
LIGHT MALLOW PURPLE (R)
ETHEL EDNA. (Burch) Another of the very popular semi-cactus about one tint deeper than Mrs. Carl Salbach and another blue ribboner at the Biltmore. Light mallow purple is the color that has given to the Orchids that irresistible color charm that no woman has ever tried to resist. Tubers, $5.00.
MAROON (R)
FLORENCE FLORES. (Burch) Maroon is the nearest to black tha! any color can become without becoming black. Now try and imagine a “black” semi-cactus with a wire stem and all the extra-fancy trimmings of a perfect commercial cut flower. Tubers, $5 00.
PICRIC YELLOW (R)
FRANK MILLER (Burch) A flat decorative on the SUNKISSED ROLL Of HONOR of the fourteen best dahlias originated on the Pacific Coast for two consecutive years, commercial and exhibition dahlia called by G.V. Warren in editing the bulletin of the Dahlia Society of Southern California “the best yellow decorative in America.” A 10 inch bloom stemmed like a corn stalk. Picric yellow is the color of a California sun tinted lemon. Last year at the Biltmore this flower won BEST individual, BEST six, and BEST blue of the seedling blue ribboners. At the Santa Monica Dahlia show it was the BEST fifty and the BEST keeping variety fifteen minutes before the close of the show. Fifty ‘FRANK MILLERS’ made the center of our 1929 Biltmore display adding another blue to its credit. Four foot stems. Tubers, $10.00.
BUFF PINK
Q. BURCH. (Burch) A flat decorative perfectly stemmed. Our blue ribbon Autumn Basket at the Biltmore was largely this Q. Burch and Ruth Tyson. We are proud enough of it to give it our own name. Tubers, $5.00.
ORANGE-YELLOW
RUTH TYSON. (Burch) The best flat decorative we have ever grown. The blooms average 8 and 10 inches with a stem so rigid that when cut three feet and horizontally held it does not lose its straight line. These pleasing combinations of orange and yellow are the most desired colors in the cut flower markets. Tubers, $5.00.
SPECTRUM RED (R)
RUBIO. (Burch' A miniature decorative with lots of basket foliage. Spectrum Red is the “red” of the Rainbow. This tiny 3 inch bloom is simply unbeatable as shown at the Biltmore, for low-bowl and flat basket table use. As a basket of fifty in our Biltmore display it stopped even the color-blind and gave us the “Blue” for the best basket of Miniatures. It’s wonderful. Tubers, $1.00.
RED-YELLOW REVERSE
STURDY DAVID. (Burch) A large oval decorative with dark red curling petals carrying a yellow reverse. Most premium lists call for all the established self colors, and close with a side show for ‘“any other.” This is one of the ANY OTHERS. And it “belongs'' in California. Every Spanish-American type of house, every Patio garden should put this dahlia in all their unexpected nooks and corners. Its undeniably the use of these colors which Constance Chandler calls “striking, vivid and definite” that has brought a million new home builders to Los Angeles in the past ten years. Tubers, $5.00.
WHITE-EDGED PINK
TOMMY BURCH. (Burch) This is a Bi-color. A decorative white petal edged with a pure pink stripe about one eighth of an inch wide. Many of our friends have been“hurt”by our refusal to sell this until it “proved up.” This year we give it our name and introduce it. Tubers, $5.00.
Dahlia Seeds from Burch Dahlia Gardens
BURCH DAHLIA SEED, $2.00 per 100.
Inasmuch as we promptly eliminate from our garden any inferior variety or plant, our seed is all taken from the aristocracy of dahliadom. Your seed from us this year will be from our own new introductions and the following well known varieties: Alice Whittier, Barbara Redfern, Blanca, Carnival, Champagne, Conquistador, Dr. Von Kleinsmidt, Eagle Rock Beauty, Eagle Rock Sunshine, Edna Ferber, Elinor Vanderveer, Elite Glory, Flaming Meteor, Fort Monmouth, F. T. D , F. W. Fellows, Insulinde, Jane Cowl, Jersey’s Beacon, Kathleen Norris, La Roda, Marmion, Meridian, M. H. De Young, Molly Malone, New Guinea, Nopal, Olive Reed, Queen of the Garden/ Rookwood. Runa. Salbach White, San Clemente, Shudow’s Lavender.
Any of our friends desiring tubers from the above named dahlia varieties will please write to us for prices.
Our miniatures and pompons are grown in another garden over two miles away from our big seed garden. Seed from these may be secured at $1.00 per 100. Those interested in roots from miniatures and pompoms will please write to us for a special price list of them.
