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Our dahlias 
In presenting you our Seventh 
Annual Catalog, we extend to all 
our many customers and Dahlia 
loving friends throughout the 
United States and the world our 
heartiest greetings and best wish¬ 
es for a happy, prosperous 1935. 
We wish for you health, happi¬ 
ness and prosperity throughout 
the year. 
We come to you this year under 
a new name. To clean up legal 
complications and clear the way 
for a greater, freer and fuller business activity 
for the future, the Kendahlia Gardens, Inc. was 
organized. It bought the business and assets of 
Kendal Dahlia Gardens, Inc. at planting time in 
June and will continue the business under the 
same management as before. Our Gardens will 
still be known as Kendal Dahlia Gardens and 
your future orders will receive the same prompt 
careful attention as heretofore. 
1934 was a year of progress from the de¬ 
pression for most of us. Progress was not by 
leaps and bounds but it was progress toward a 
renewed faith in ourselves, in those around us 
and a realization that it was within our power, 
by careful living and planning, to carry on and 
through. Conditions on every hand point toward 
a stable recovery of business and living condi¬ 
tions that seems to insure an era of prosperity 
that will mean better living for all of us. 
With this assurance ahead we can go ahead 
with confidence to acquire those things we desire 
with the fuller life they bring, better living and 
more flowers which inspire the mind and heart 
of all to better and finer deeds. In planting and 
caring for flowers you serve God. 
We grew twenty-five acres of Dahlias in 
1934, 120,000 hills. The weather in this sec¬ 
tion was dry during the early part of the sea¬ 
son. Later rains brought them to a fine ma¬ 
turity. Conditions like these do not make large 
roots but they make roots that are “chuck” full 
of ‘‘pep” and vitality. As it has been true for 
seven years, it will still be true that “Kendal 
Dahlias Grow Anywhere.” 
Our costs in the production and handling 
of dahlias, in the preparation of our catalogs 
and other advertising, our office and other fixed 
expenses are still on an increased basis under 
the new improved business conditions yet our 
prices are reduced on about 50 per cent of our 
dahlias so that we bring you the cream of the 
dahlia world at prices lower than 
we have ever quoted. Our low 
prices last year brought us an in¬ 
creased volume of business show¬ 
ing that our customers appreciate 
the very low price of our dahlias 
which have an exceedingly high 
standard of vitality. 
Our catalog brings you a selec¬ 
tion of about 600 of the world’s 
best known and more popular dah¬ 
lias both of the standard sorts and 
the prize winning varieties. No 
other grower to our knowledge lists so many 
varieties in their catalog from which their cus¬ 
tomers may select. We bring you every shade 
and color and type of dahlia in existence. Our 
catalog is used by hundreds of florists, dahlia 
growers and greenhouses as a reference book. 
You should consult it often. 
We have again this year combined in as¬ 
sorted types and colors, many collections from 
the popular standard and exhibition varieties 
of which we have large stocks and which you 
may buy in these collections at greatly reduced 
prices. These bargains are very popular, the 
type and colors are assorted in proper balance 
and will be a credit to any garden. 
We are no longer growing cannas and 
peonies and therefore are discontinuing them 
from our catalog. You may still purchase tri- 
toma or red hot poker from us as we continue 
to grow this very beautiful flower. 
Next fall we want you to write us all about 
your dahlia successes, your failures and your 
problems and if you are visiting Sandusky or if 
you are passing through Sandusky from August 
20th to October 20th, we shall be pleased to 
have you visit our Gardens. Anyone can tell 
you where they are. 
Our 1936 catalog will be sent to you some 
time next year between January 15th and Feb¬ 
ruary 15th, 1936. Save your order until it 
comes. 
We desire again to thank you for the splen¬ 
did business which you gave us last year. It 
has enabled us to give you better service and 
cheaper prices this year. You have been very 
helpful in your cooperation. May we all have 
good luck in 1935 together. 
Voi 
C. W. Stuart 
If you are not interested in this catalog, will you please pass it along to your neighbor? 
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