TESTIMONIALS 
(Names on Request) 
A customer from Joplin, Mo., writes under date of January 
21, 1934: 
Dear Sirs, 
Am writing for your ’34 Price List as I am in, need of 
a few more varieties, and want to thank you for the fine 
stock and good count on the 200 divisions I received from 
you folks last Spring. I thought my stock was good but 
I give up and thanks a lot. 
Another customer from Richmond, Va., dated January 22, 
1934, writes as follows: 
Gentlemen, 
I am again writing asking for a Spring Price List as I 
bought Dahlia roots from you last year and was very much 
pleased with them. I am now making up my Spring list 
and would like very much to have your Price List before 
placing an order elsewhere. 
A nice letter from a customer of Oklahoma City, Okla., 
dated March 4, 1933: 
Dear Mr. Finger, 
Your Balancing Budget Collection has been received and 
I must say that they were the nicest tubers and best, 
packed of any I have ever received during my 20 years of 
Dahlia experience. 
Last season to keep our Dahlia crew on the job we 
offered many cutflower and garden varieties at the low 
price of $5.00 per 100 rate and special collections at 
extremely low prices. 
Although the total income of stock sold equalled cost of 
dividing, selecting, further handling and packing, the results 
were decidedly unprofitable when production costs and 
continued overhead expenses were considered, a fact realized 
sooner than expected. 
We dare state that no reputable Dahlia grower in the 
U. S. can offer Dahlia roots at lower prices than our list 
quotations for 1934 and stay in business if paying decent 
wages for employment, and if offering selected stock for 
sale and that means Selected A No. 1 divisions taken from 
healthy field grown stock where stunts and sickly plants 
are rogued out and destroyed and said stunts are not offered 
and sold in root form at a low price in competition with 
selected stock offered and sold by reputable and conscien¬ 
tious Dahlia Specialists. 
Due to public demand and of creating employment 
during the slack winter months, our 1933 retail collection 
offers will be continued, but for reasons stated above are 
compelled to raise trade list prices over 1933 levels on 
certain standard varieties. 
