OUR FLOWER GARDEN 



We Grow Dahlias Especially For Our Lady Customers. 



This season we have added 86 new and 

 standard varieties to our already long list of 

 Dahlias, and without fear of contradiction will 

 say that we have the largest assortment of 

 Dahlias of any grower in the country. In 

 order to furnish these Dahlias as cheaply as 

 possible to our Lady Friends we are furnish- 

 ing the bulbs this season only in mixed selec- 

 tions. Storing Dahlia roots in large quanti- 

 ties, and keeping them separated is more of a 

 job than one might think, and should we sell 

 a Lady FriQnd a red dahlia, and send her a 

 white or yellow one we would be sure to get 

 into trouble. Now in our selections we are 

 not promising any special colors or styles. We 

 are going to mix our entire lot as thoroughly 

 as possible, just the way they look the best 

 in the flower plot growing, and we feel sure 

 that everyone will be better pleased than if 

 they had made their own selection by names. 

 Even in a dozen bulbs you vrill be likely to get 

 at least ten varieties and colors, and you vrill 

 get them at least one half cheaper in this way. 



Any lady not pleased with the selection can 

 have her money back any time. At this writ- 

 ing, October 1st, we would be more than 

 pleased to have each of our customers take 

 a look at our beautiful Dahlia Garden, it is 

 now in its height, plants standing from three 

 and a half to five feet high, completely cov- 

 ered with blooms of every shade in the rain- 

 bov.'. 



We allow our Dahlias to commence bloom- 

 ing about July 1st and they bloom continually 

 until frost. We know of no other flower that 

 is as popular as the Dahlia and for this reason 

 are giving a good growing space to this flower. 

 Dahlia bulbs can be sent by parcel post or 

 express separately or packed in with your 



plants. 



Prices as follows, and remember every order 

 guaranteed to please you or your money back 

 any day. 



Price each 10 cents; 6, 40 cents; 12, 6 

 cents; 18, 75 cents; 24, $1.00; 50, $1.75; lOu, 

 $3.00. 



If bulbs are to go by parcel post add two 

 cents for each bulb. If postage remitted is in 

 excess we will add more bulbs to the order. 

 In no case will you have to pay more than the 

 postage charges. 



We make this offer — Any lady sending us 

 the photograph of a lot of bahlias purchased 

 from us any time during the summer or fall 

 up to Octobber 1, 1917, will receive 50 selec- 

 ted bulbs free, and the one sending us the best 

 photograph, together with their own photo, 

 we will give free 2 00 of our very best selec- 

 tions. 



Remember that strawberry plants or other 

 roots may be shipped along with the dahlia 

 bulbs and may be sent by express very cheap. 



When sending in your orders kindly write 

 us what varieties of fruits and flowers that 

 you are mostly interested in, and if we are 

 not growing them will add them to our list 

 as it is our desire to grow what v»e think will 

 please our friends most and that which will 

 be of the most pleasure and profit to them. 



Also please remember that we give Free 

 plants and bulbs for the names of your friends 

 who are really interested in our plants. 



Send the names only of heads of families. 

 Please send only the names of those that you 

 chink v.-ill be most likely to buy plants, as it 

 costs us money to mail our books. 



How to Care For A Bed of Ever-Bearing Plants 



Prepare your ground same as for any other 

 strawberry plant; set them out the same way, 

 hoe and cultivate the same; pinch off all the 

 blossoms that appear for the first month and 

 then let them grow, and you v/ill have all the 

 berries you want by July first, and from then 

 on until the ground freezes hard. The second 

 year crop, after your berries are through 

 fruiting in the fall, the fir^t season cover with 

 coarse barnyard manure, or straw, leaving 

 the manure or straw on the beds, and let the 

 plants push through it in the early spring; 

 cultivate two or three times in early spring 

 before the berries are ripe, and continue this 

 frequent cultivation all through the summer 

 and fall the second year, as this keeps up the 



moisture and causes larger and more fruit. 



Growing strawberries is a pleasant and 

 profitable position, in fact the most profitable 

 of any business I know of when carried out in 

 the proper way. And the business needs all 

 the thought, care and attention that can be 

 given it, to make it the success that it de- 

 serves. I have received letters from my 

 friends saying that they had made as high as 

 $1,000 per acre clear profit in a season from 

 their berry fields. I have even done as well 

 myself a few times, and it is not unusual to 

 get $4 00 to $5 ISO from an acre when the best 

 thoroughbrt^d j^lants are used. 



The beauty is that there is always a demand 

 for bi^, led berries. 



Number of Plants Required To Set One Acre. 



18 inches by 3 feet D.GSu plants o6 inches by 3 



18 inches by 3 V2 feet .^.S.207 plants 36 inches by 4 



2 4 inches by 3^2 feet 7,2 60 plants 4 8 inches by 4 



2 4 inches by 31,2 feet 6.222 plants 4 8 inches by 6 



24 inches by 4 feet 5.445 plants 48 inches by 7 



30 inches by Z\i> feet 4.0 7 8 plants 



feet 4.148 plant? 



feet 3.6 30 plant? 



feet 2.7 2 2 plants 



feet 1.815 plants 



feet 1.555 plants 



