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A Greeting to My Friends and Patrons, botawcai 
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I take great pleasure in presenting you with a copy of my new 1913 Cata¬ 
logue which I feel is a great improvement over my last issue, with new 
cultural notes which, if followed, will assist the amateur in getting better 
results in the future. I also take this opportunity of thanking my many 
friends and patrons who have recommended and favored me with their or¬ 
ders in the past, and to express gratification that my determination to fur¬ 
nish none hut the best stock is so widely recognized. 
This season I have constructed a storage and shipping plant which is to 
he 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. 15th, 
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 space. It is the largest building of the 
kind in the world. I especially invite all my friends and customers to make 
a personal inspection of my plant. 
I have been acknowledged the largest Dahlia grower in the world. The 
last season I grew over 4,000,000' Dahlia, plants, nearly 35 acres. I feel that 
this will be one of great interest 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 at all times. 
I am pleased at any time to assist the public with any information possible 
provided they will send return stamp. 
I had the honor of selling the St. Louis Purchase Exposition their entire 
stock, which was grown in the beds and borders at the Fair Grounds in 1904. 
I also grew an exhibit that covered an area of 2728 square feet at the 
World’s Fair, Manning the silver medal, one of the highest honors. I sup¬ 
plied the City of Boston the large- lot which was grown on the Public Gar¬ 
dens in 1905 and 1906. I also supplied the Concord State Fair grounds at 
Concord, N. H., the large lot which was grown in their park on the Fair 
Grounds. In 1910 I supplied many other large lots. One of these lots con¬ 
tained 95,750- bulbs to one firm. 
The past season I made more exhibits than ever before in the different 
states and won first prizes in all of them. I dare say I won more prizes 
than any other firm in America the past season. 
It is not necessary to say anything about 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 
chat 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 have been doing business 
for 18 years, and null give you good satisfaction for your money. My stock 
is strong, separated, field grown clumps, pith 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 professional 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 
noth 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 purchasing 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. 
