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A Greeting to my Friends and Patrons. 
Hfi'V YiMK 
BOTAMitCAL 
GARDEN 
I take great pleasure in presenting' you with 
a copy of ray new 1014 Catalogue which I feel 
is a great improvement over my last issue; 
with new cultural notes which, if followed, 
“will assist the amateur to receive better re¬ 
sults in the future. I also take this opportu- 
nity of thanking my many friends and pat¬ 
rons who have recommended and favored me 
with their orders in the past, and to ex¬ 
press gratification that my determination to 
furnish none but the best stock is so widely 
recognized. 
This season I have constructed a storage 
and shipping plant which is to be a great 
advantage to myself and customers. Under my 
present system I am able to ship stock from 
the time we finish digging, about Nov. loth, 
till July 1st the following year. 
This building has a cement cellar containing 
11,700 cubic feet of storage room and 4680 
square feet of floor suace. It is the largest 
•building of the kind in the world. I especially 
Unite all my friends and customers to make 
a personal inspection of my plant. 
I have been acknowledged the largest 
Dahlia grower in the world. This last season 
I grew over 4,000,000 Dahlia plants, nearly 35 
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 August and September. My fields are kept 
open at all times for the inspection 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. 
Our growing exhibits at the “World’s Fair,” 
St. Louis Purchase Exposition, James¬ 
town Exposition, Alaska Toukon Pacific Ex¬ 
position, won honors of highest degree, ac¬ 
knowledging our stock universally unsur¬ 
passed. 
I have already completed arrangements to 
have a large growing exhibit at the Panama- 
Pacific Exposition in 1915. 
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 
the past season. 
It is unnecessary to say anything regard¬ 
ing the exhibits I have made at the different 
horticultural and agricultural societies in the 
past. Every person knows that ever saw my 
exhibit 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 19 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. While many large 
firms recommend and sell mostly Dahlia 
plants, and charge as much for them as 
strong roots, they are all right for a profes¬ 
sional 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 any insect the plant is lost, but 
it is not so with bulbs. The sprout from a 
bulb if cut off by any insect will come again 
with two sprouts, so one does not feel as if 
they had paid out good money for stock and 
at the end of the 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 pur¬ 
chasing any of my stock, 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 remail you one in place 
of them; but do not remail stock you have 
purchased elsewhere, as this has happened in 
some cases. 
I would recommend that customers order 
early, as my orders are booked in rotation 
and shipped accordingly. My stock is tested 
before being shipped 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 by 
prompt, liberal and conscientious dealings. 
Hoping to receive a share of your patronage 
this coming season, I remain. 
Respectfully yours, 
J. K. ALEXANDER, 
East Bridgewater, Mass. 
The Eastern Dahlia King. 
(Copyrighted), 
Long Distance Telephone Connection. 
January 1, 1914. 
