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There is no soil, however barren and unproductive, that cannot, by well digging and dunging, be made 
fertile and prolific."-Adapted from Cervantes’ DON QUIXOTE, Part 11, Chapter XII. 
A Little Magazine lor the Gardener 
VOL. 4 WAYLAND, MICHiGAN^U. sT A~"SEASON OF 1934 No. 1 
FIELD NOTES 
As usual our blocks of Jersey’s 
Beauty and Jane Cowl were truly a 
sight to behold. We have grown 
these varieties from our own tubers 
only for several years, 
and we honestly be¬ 
lieve that we have as 
fine a strain of both as 
can be found anywhere 
in the country. A com¬ 
parative planting of 
our strain of these two 
dahlias. will demon¬ 
strate the value of 
Michigan grown dahlia 
tubers in any field. 
Mrs. I. de Ver War¬ 
ner developed perfectly this past 
season, and when placed beside Elli- 
nor Vanderveer, Helen Ivins, or any 
of the other lavenders you could find 
no excuse for the existence of the 
latter. In fact, we can unhesitatingly 
recommend Mrs. Warner as the very 
best of its color. 
Judge Marean never fails to ac¬ 
count for itself to the full limit. 
Good, thrifty grower, profuse bloom¬ 
er, good color, good root maker. We 
harvested an excellent crop of roots 
of this variety, and are offering them 
at about half what they are really 
worth. 
.Snowdrift and Bonnie Brae were 
short crop. Both of these varieties 
were just peeping through the 
ground when the terrific June heat 
struck us, and sprouts were simply 
cooked. As a result they were set 
back and many plants never recover¬ 
ed so they were fit to dig. 
Among reds Mina Burgle seemed 
to lead last year. Oregon Beauty did 
well, as did Pride of California, but 
Doazon was short crop. We have a 
new red called PAN which has been 
under trial for the past two seasons. 
This promises to surpass any red we 
have seen—in fact the only red we 
ever tried which does not fade as 
blooms open fully. This will probably 
be offered to our customers next 
year. There is a real need for good 
red deeoratives and if any of our 
friends have one, we should be glad 
to try it and if it proves good, we 
will undertake its introduction. 
The old standard varieties still 
make up the volume sales. We grow 
most of these by the thousands, and 
every year they are snapped off by 
buyers long before we start digging. 
One single customer took fifty 
thousand tubers of this grade of 
stock this year. Photo of the ship¬ 
ment will be shown in our next issue. 
Laura Morris has met all our 
claims as to its being the very best 
deep yellow decorative. Our block 
of this variety was a 
feature in our fields, 
and many of the lead¬ 
ing seedsmen selected 
it at first sight. You 
will find it listed by 
such prominent houses 
as Templin-Bradley, 
Isbell, R. M. Kellogg, 
Oscar H. Will, House 
of Gurney, Earl E. 
May, F. B. Mills, and 
many others. These 
people do not accept any variety un¬ 
less it is good. If you haven’t tried 
it, don’t wait any longer. It is a sell¬ 
er—both wholesale and retail—and 
you are losing money when you pass 
it by. 
Bertha Horne is one of the most 
popular hybrid cactus dahlias grown. 
It is similar to Jane Cowl in color, 
and blooms are large and borne in 
great profusion. It always takes well 
with the retail trade. 
We shall have to buy many tubers 
this spring to complete our own 
planting. If you have a surplus, read 
our WANT LIST on another page. 
Perhaps you might want to exchange 
for something we have, or would sell 
at a fair price for cash. 
(Continued on Page Three) 
A single block of more than twenty-five thousand plants grown up “at the 
farm”. This block yielded a wonderful lot of tubers, practically all of which 
were sold before we started digging. 
