CURTIS DAHLIAS 
1936 Greetings To Our Dahlia 
Friends. 
It gives us great pleasure to send you our 1936 catalogue 
and we will appreciate your looking it over very thoroughly. 
Growing and exhibiting Dahlias has been our hobby and pleas¬ 
ure for many years. This year we have the largest and finest 
stock of the newer dahlias that we have ever grown and are 
prepared to supply our customers with as good roots and plants 
as they can possibly purchase anywhere. 
1935 was the biggest year we have ever had in the dahlia bus¬ 
iness. After taking our dahlias 150 miles by automobile, we 
again won on our 250 foot display at the Michigan State Show, 
in Port Huron, for the most outstanding dahlias in the show. 
It has been a pleasure to hear from our customers, telling 
of their experiences in growing and showing their dahlias which 
were purchased from us. The number of visitors to our gar¬ 
dens, Irom other states, grows each year. We would appreciate 
a visit from you some time during the coming season. 
Wishing you a most succesful dahlia year, we are 
Very truly yours, 
MR. AND MRS. RAY E. CURTIS. 
MEMBER—American Dahlia Society 
Dahlia Society of Michigan. 
REFERENCES—Ionia Garden Club. 
Michigan Dahlia Society. 
"Visiting Michigan Gardens" 
By George R. Currie 
—from The Mid West News—Fall Edition—1935 
Dr. Grant, of Montello, Wisconsin, an ardent Dahlia enthu¬ 
siast, and the writer, devoted our this year’s vacation of eight 
days to visiting Dahlia gardens in Michigan and Ohio with at¬ 
tendance at the great Cleveland Mid West show as the con¬ 
cluding event. Although Mr. Eldredge has requested me to de¬ 
scribe our Michigan visitations for the readers of this publica¬ 
tion, it seems a little presumptious for a rank amateur to at¬ 
tempt such a task. 
We commenced our trip by taking our automobile aboard a 
carferry at Manitowoc on Sunday, September 8th, and crossed 
Bake Michigan to Eudington, and then proceeded to Grand Rap¬ 
ids by automobile .... Monday noon found us at Ionia, .... 
The eight hundred plants at the Curtis Dahlia Gardens had the 
most vigorous bush growth we saw on our trip and they ap¬ 
peared to be at the peak of their blooming period. The rows 
of fine plants of Wenoka, California Idol, Hunt’s Velvet Won¬ 
der, City of Cleveland and Mrs. George Be Boutellier appeared 
to be the answer to a Dahlia fan’s prayer with each bush pre¬ 
senting the same uniform appearance of all the others in the 
same row, and each having one or more fine large exhibition 
flowers in full bloom. We were very favorably impressed with 
our first view of a plant of Tower’s Empire with its uniquely 
patterned foliage bearing three distinctive, bright gold colored 
blooms, each measuring ten inches in diameter. 
We found the Michigan Growers, whose gardens we visited, 
an unusually fine group of people whom it was a real pleasure 
to meet and visit with, and we are hoping that the privilege 
of making a return visit may again be ours. We are convinced 
that no finer dahlias can be found anywhere. 
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GUARANTEE—All roots or plants sent to customers 
are guaranteed to be true to name and from healthy par¬ 
ent stock and to grow if given reasonable care on ar¬ 
rival and after planting; we are ready and willing to re¬ 
place any that should prove otherwise. 
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