Drawn on January 25, 1976 during a stay at Brown’s Hotel in London. The genus Dahlia was named for Andreas Dahl, one of the Swedish pupils of Linnaeus. The plants, like so many others of exotic and beautiful demeanor, are of Mexican origin (and some species from Guatemala). First grown in England in the late 18th century and first noticed by the hybridizes in the early 19th, now the forms number in the thousands and there is no end in sight.
—Henry Evans 245 copies were printed and sell for $300.00 each.