oRAKY 
OR K 
A Talk With My Friends and Patrons 
I TAKE great pleasure in pre¬ 
senting you with a copy of 
my new 1919 Catalogue which 
I feel is a great improvement 
over my last issue. I also 
take this opportunity of thanking 
my many friends and patrons who 
have recommended and favored me 
with their orders in the past, and 
to express gratification that my 
determination to furnish none but 
the best stock, is so widely recog¬ 
nized. 
Five years ago I constructed a 
storage and shipping plant which 
is a great advantage to myself 
and customers. Under my pres¬ 
ent system I am able to ship stock 
from the time we finish digging, 
about November 15th, till July 1st 
the following year. 
This building has a cement cellar 
containing 11,700 cubic feet of stor¬ 
age room and 4,680 square feet of 
floor space. It is the largest build¬ 
ing of the kind in the world. I es¬ 
pecially invite all my friends and 
customers to make a personal in¬ 
spection of my plant. 
I have been acknowledged the larg¬ 
est Dahlia grower in the world. This 
last season I grew over 4,500,000 
Dahlia plants—nearly 40 acres. I 
feel that this will be of great inter¬ 
est to the general public who have 
in past years come long distances 
to visit my fields in the flowering 
season, through the months of Au¬ 
gust and September. My fields are 
kept open at all times for the in¬ 
spection of the public. Visitors are 
always welcome. I am pleased at 
any time to assist the public with 
any information possible, provided 
they will send return stamp. 
My growing exhibits at the World’s 
Fair, St. Louis Purchase Exposition, 
Jamestown Exposition, Alaska-Yu- 
kon-Pacific Exposition, and Panama- 
Pacific Exposition, won honors of 
highest degree, acknowledging my stock universal¬ 
ly unsurpassed. 
The past season I made more exhibits than ever 
before in the different states, winning first prizes 
in all of them. I dare say I won more prizes than 
any other firm in America in the past season. 
It is unnecessary to say anything regarding the 
exhibits .I have made at the different horticultural 
and agricultural 1 societies in the past. Every per¬ 
son that ever saw my exhibit knows that it was 
fully as good, if not the best that was ever made 
in the place where I exhibited. 
If you are looking for some first class, up-to-date 
Dahlias, do not hesitate in placing your order in 
the hands of a firm who has been doing business 
for 24 years, and will give you good satisfaction 
for your money. My stock is strong, separated, 
field-grown clumps, with one or two eyes on a 
bulb, and guaranteed true to name. Although my 
stock is not overgrown, it is considered much the 
better for amateur growers, as the stock has not 
been forced to any overgrowth, which is very apt 
to take out of the stock rather than add anything 
to its value. Many large firms recommend and 
sell mostly Dahlia plants, and charge as much for 
them as strong roots ; they are all right for a pro¬ 
fessional who understands the handling of them 
and wishes to build up a stock quickly, but I would 
not recommend them to the amateur. If cut off 
by an insect the plant is lost, but it is not so with 
bulbs. The sprout from a bulb if cut off by an 
insect will come again with two sprouts, so one 
Mina Burgle—Decorative Dahlia (See page 27). 
does not feel as if he had paid out good money for 
stock and at the end of thei season had nothing to 
show for it. In many cases I find that strong 
bulbs with good eyes or sprouts, do not always 
grow; so, if any of my customers, after purchas¬ 
ing any of my bulbs, should have any of them fail 
to grow after planting them, dig them up and mail 
them back with the label on them, and I will re¬ 
mail you one in place of them; but, do not re¬ 
mail stock you have purchased elsewhere, as this 
has happened in some cases. 
I would rcommend that customers order early, 
as my orders are booked in rotation and shipped 
accordingly. My stock is tested before being ship¬ 
ped to my customers. I shall take as much pains 
in the future as in the past to send out nothing 
but first-class stock and to continue the same 
prompt, liberal and conscientious dealings. Hop¬ 
ing to receive a share of your patronage this com¬ 
ing season, I remain, 
Respectfully yours, 
J. K. ALEXANDER, 
The Dahlia King 
(Copyrighted) 
East Bridgewater, Mass. 
January 1, 1919. 
Long Distance Telephone Connection. 
