Z A N T ’ S 
BLUE 
RIBBON 
DAHLIAS 
1934 Blue Ribbon Dahlias 
The Largest and Best in Cultivation 
Grown in Michigan 
The Great Dahlia Supply Market 
We believe in the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as you 
would have others do unto you,” and we live up to it as our 
many customers can testify. Not only because it is good 
business, but because we honestly want to. 
We appreciate the many letters we received this fall 
telling in glowing terms of our excellent stock. Many in¬ 
cluded snapshots, showing the wonderful blooms from our 
stock. 
Visitors are welcome and you are urged to come, not 
only once, but as many times as you wish, and we will 
gladly take the time to show you around and answer any 
questions regarding varieties or our method of growing. 
The gardens are in bloom generally from about August 
10th until frost, which this last fall came on the night of 
October 19th. What other flower can give you such a long 
season of bloom ? 
You will find several thousand four to seven foot husky 
bushes loaded with immense blooms on stems up to four 
feet long. We plant both roots and plants spaced three 
feet apart in the row, and the rows four feet apart and 
the rank growth is the wonder of all visitors. We had them 
from Hollywood, California; Seattle, Washington; West 
Virginia, and North Carolina. We have never been to Cali¬ 
fornia or Washington, but both visitors who were Dahlia 
Growers, said that they had never seen such sized bushes 
and such a quantity of bloom on the western coast. Five 
and six monster blooms on each bush. We know they do 
grow good dahlias out there, but they can’t put Michigan 
Vitality in their stock. That is the answer and we have 
many customers in California who tell us they want 
nothing but Michigan Grown Dahlias and they prefer 
Z ant’s. 
In years gone by we have had many successes in grow¬ 
ing the latest in dahlias, but 1933 seems to have been the 
greatest of all, such gorgeous varieties as we did not 
dream of only five years ago, in fact as our good friend, 
Mr. J. A. Kemp, originator of that marvelous new Kemp’s 
White Wonder, wrote us “I believe we are on the threshold 
of a new era in dahlia breeding, and that greater Dahlias 
than any of us ever dared hope for, are just at hand, in 
fact some of them are here now.” Most of those new ones 
he wrote about we will have to show our many visitors 
next fall. We are proud of the praise we have received 
from customers in all parts of the country for the excep¬ 
tional garden and exhibition quality shown by our hardy, 
husky, Michigan grown roots and plants, and we assure 
our many friends and also future customers that we will 
strive to continue to merit your orders. We have in our 
modern storage the finest crop of roots we have ever had, 
and thanks to our system of growing they are keeping in 
wonderful shape, ready to go into your garden, full of 
Pep and Vitality. Thanks to our wonderful soil and hardy 
climate. We solicit your orders and assure you they will be 
filled with the finest roots and plants grown in Michigan— 
The Great Central Dahlia State. 
We earnestly solicit your orders. If you have never 
given our stock a trial, just send a small order — it will 
prove to you all we claim for our stock, and every order 
will have the personal attention of the writer. 
Yours for Better Dahlias, 
JOHN J. ZANT, 
Owner and Manager, 
Zant’s Wildwood Gardens. 
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