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W. W. WILMORE, DAHLIA SPECIALIST. 
FRIENDS AND PATRONS: 
GREETING 
It is fitting and proper tliat in presenting my Catalogue for tlie new year, I gratefully 
acknowledge the favors received at the hands of my friends and patrons in the past. By their 
cordial support I have attained to the position of the most successful Dahlia Specialist in the 
United States. The wonderful progress and improvement made in this popular flower in the past 
few years has necessitated a rigid weeding out of inferior as well as many heretofore considered 
good varieties. By this careful attention to business I have kept to the front, and have never 
failed in taking the first premium of the State. My aim has always been to combine QUALITY 
rather than QUANTITY. Duplicating the same color, over and over again, may give some prestige 
by way of lengthening a list as an advertising medium, but will add nothing of real worth to the 
list. A score of good varieties will give better satisfaction than a hundred poor ones. 
Customers may select from my lists with the assurance that the stock will be the best, and 
that the varieties will be true to name and color. Each year I originate many new varieties, 
and carefully note in a book kept for that purpose, the habits and qualities of each variety. The 
stock offered in this Catalogue represents twenty-one years of careful study and selection of varieties. 
To all those who receive this Catalogue, and have never tested my stock, I solicit a trial order, 
feeling confident that the stock will prove entirely saitsfactory. 
RICES. I do not claim that my prices are the lowest; nor have I ever coveted 
the reputation of running a "cheap place." I aim to do an honest business and 
at the same time retain a profit on my investments. The present evolutionary 
[icriod of the Dahlia requires the purchasing of new and costly varieties, and 
dis<-arding of many hitherto good varieties and consequent loss and waste of 
stock. Many of the est vai'ieties are shy producers of tubers. Nevertheless, my 
prices will be found quite reasonable and even lower than others. Remember 
also that I send out strong tubers, not weakly green plants. Special attention 
nf patrons is called to the list of Hardy Herbaceous Plants. They thrive almost 
anywhere that a weed would grow, requiring only reasonable care the first year 
to get them well established. 
How to Order 
It would be well for each purchaser, when making out an order, to name several varieties 
as a second choice, for the reason that .some of the varieties wanted may be out of stock when 
the order reaches me, or if not familiar with varieties I will gladly make selections for you if 
you will mention the colors and forms wanted. Long experience places each variety before me as 
an open book. 
Terms Upon Which I Do Business 
FIRST — The cash must accompany the order. 
SECOND — Remittances may be sent in any way most convenient to the purchaser, but wliere 
remittances are made by P. O. order, extra stock will be given to recompense for the extra cost. 
If personal checks are sent, add 15 cents extra for exchange. 
THIRD — Prices quoted include postage or express charges to all railways points in the United 
States when purchased at retail, except where noted. 
FOURTH — Club Terms: In lots of five dozen or over to one address, those varieties priced 
at $1.50 per dozen will be sent for $1.25; all other stock In proportion. 
FIFTH — One-half dozen may be ordered at dozen rates. An "Extra" Is sent with all dahlia 
orders amounting to 75c or over. 
SIXTH — Non-Warranty: I guarantee the safe arrival of goods by mail or express and will con- 
tinue to use the same careful, painstaking methods in filling orders with stock of known vitality 
and of superior merit, but will not be responsible for future results or failures. Errors should be 
reported <at once. 
Note. — If you fail to find some old favorite listed in the following pages, it is because a newer 
and better variety has taken its place. 
