Z A N T ’ S 
WILDWOOD 
GARDENS 
OUR BEST CUT FLOWERS 
If you want lots of long stemmed cut flowers, that are 
good keepers when cut, blooms averaging 7 inches across, 
about the size the florists want, grow: Buckeye Bride, 
Kentucky, City of Trenton, Girl of Hillcrest, Cardinalis, 
Jersey’s Triumph, Salmon Supreme, Cloudland Gem, Der- 
ril W. Hart, Golden Sonne. 
We cut these in quantity for a high class retail trade. 
Try these and you will make enough during the late sum¬ 
mer and fall to buy the new varieties the next spring. 
There is room in the Dahlia field as a paying business, for 
thousands of additional growers. Get started now, but get 
started right — with Zant’s Wildwood Gardens Michigan 
Grown Dahlias. 
LOWEST PRICES 
Shopping around for the lowest prices is a habit with 
some people. We admit we also had it years ago, but we 
found it an expensive one in the end. The initial price of 
a variety is certainly only a part of the price. It costs just 
as much to plant, cultivate, spray, dig, and store a poor 
quality tuber or plant as a good one, and how different is 
the result. Nothing but trouble during the growing sea¬ 
son, stunted stock perhaps, short stems, poor blooms, if 
any. These are a few of the results of trying to save a 
few cents, or even a dollar on the new and higher priced 
varieties. You get what you pay for in Dahlias, so be wise 
and buy Zant’s Wildwood Gardens Quality, or something 
as good if you can find it. 
STATE AND FEDERAL INSPECTED 
Our Dahlias are State inspected during the growing 
season, and have been found to be absolutely free from 
any disease. Last fall reports had the following notation: 
“A Wonderful Planting of Dahlias. All in Good Order.” 
All shipments carry a copy of the Michigan Dept, of 
Agriculture Inspection Certificate. For the states that re¬ 
quire a Federal Inspection, all shipments will also carry 
a tag showing the Roots or Plants were examined by an 
inspector of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, who is station¬ 
ed in Grand Rapids during the Dahlia shipping season. 
MICHIGAN STATE SHOW IN DETROIT, 1933 
We made a complimentary display of about 400 blooms, 
which created many favorable remarks from the visitors 
and brother growers. Every visitor and grower remarked 
about the extra long stems we had on all varieties. Nothing 
in the entire show to compare with them. The official re¬ 
port which appeared in the Bulletin, and also in the Amer¬ 
ican Dahlias Society Bulletin, and Mid West News was 
as follows: “Wildwood Gardens of Grand Rapids, Mich¬ 
igan, made an especially fine display which was not entered 
for competition” — but we won first prize for having the 
four largest blooms in the entire show, and we could have 
made it 40 largest if there had been a class of this size. 
Our gardens were the talk of the entire state. 
Michigan is a favored state for producing husky dahlia 
roots and plants. The crisp cool climate, with its fresh lake 
breezes. You know that Michigan is nearly surrounded by 
large bodies of water, also thousands of inland lakes and 
streams. We have a small stream through Wildwood Gar¬ 
dens and there are seven good sized lakes within a mile 
radius. This is probably the reason Michigan is now The 
Great Dahlia Supply Market. 
