PRICE LIST—SPRING OF 1934 
Delivery May 1,1934 
Sprouted Roots Postage Paid on 
Field Grown, Potash Fed orders for $2.00 or More 
All orders are subject to prior sale and keeping of roots 
through winter storage. The latter is almost superfluous a 
precaution with us, not having lost any noticeable percentage 
of stock in ten years. Knock on wood—but safety first. Our 
good run of luck in keeping roots might be based on the 
fact that stock is never forced by any “big shot” fertilizing 
methods, never watered excessively and above all never 
bloomed to death. In this respect, we may be abnormally 
“hard-boiled” but if it were possible to positively identify 
all roots, our stock for re-sale would never be allowed to 
bloom—and “them’s our sentiments”—take ’em or leave ’em. 
We are just wondering, as possibly you have, that much 
of this stunt affair, might not be traced back to the previous 
season, where someone has “shot the works” with his dahlias 
in order to “go to town” on some dahlia show, thereby com¬ 
pete with and out-measure the monstrosities of those ex¬ 
hibitors (may their shadows grow less) who use the Over¬ 
land Limited, the airplane and whatnot to collect blooms 
from the four winds for a lot of “Ah’s and Oh’s” by an un¬ 
suspecting public. 
For healthy root growth, we use bone meal and muriate 
of potash and that does not mean nitrate of soda or any 
other of the many “shots in the arm,” enticing as the Sirens’ 
call of old. 
Our appeal is to the small grower, often a payer of too 
much “freight” or “overhead.” We feel that our prices are 
down to a most reasonable scale and reserve the right to 
limit quantities on certain varieties much in demand, in 
order to serve the many who have shown by their orders and 
repeat orders, appreciation for our efforts to tack a SANE 
price on dahlia roots. 
Yes, we support our thanks, in a material way, for a mail¬ 
ing list of your friends, who raise dahlias (said to be, with¬ 
out much contradiction) the PRIMA DONNAS of any gar¬ 
den spot. 
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Abbreviations — Formal Decorative (FD); Informal 
Decorative (ID); Semi-cactus (SC); Cactus (C); Ball or 
Show (B); Pom Pom (P); Peony (Peo). 
♦Varieties added since last season. 
Argonaut (ID) Gold and Bronze, quite artistic.$ .35 
A D Livonia (B) Clear Cerise Pink.20 
♦Andrea Ericson (ID) the White Ft. Monmouth. 1.50 
Buckeye Bride (FD) Geranium Pink, blooms early 
and late .75 
Ballet Girl (C) Scarlet and White, free bloomer.35 
♦BAGDAD (ID) Scarlet, red flame, 10-in. blooms. 1.00 
