BROOMALL 
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T HERE may be as large Dahlias but they are not white ancl there is something about 
this great big white that visitors at our garden can’t get away from after seeing 
it. This variety has won the very hig'hest awards in this country, we mean by this, 
such prizes as $100.00 in cash for the largest and most perfect bloom open to all. Other 
growers have searched the world over to find a better white Dahlia over a period of five 
years and they are still searching, in the meantime Margaret is still supreme. We are 
convinced that we used sound judgment in having this wonder Dahlia patented. Com¬ 
mercial growers admit it is the best Dahlia, but the patent does not permit resale of 
this Dahlia at the present time, however, there are many growers who are taking the 
major awards in the show room with this variety and deriving much pleasure in growing 
a Dahlia that is so different than their neighbors. It has been grown to 16 inches, grow¬ 
ing naturally with many other bloom on the same bush. This is a certified measurement 
and not hearsay. Many experts have expressed their sincere opinions that it can be 
grown up around 20 inches and it has a stem that will carry any size flower. Why was 
this variety selected by the World Wide Photo Company out of thousands of the very 
latest new creations at the New York show, to photograph and broadcast throughout 
our land? Just one reason is the answer, it was the most striking bloom in the whole 
show and the largest by inches. They don’t photograph the ordinary subjects, there¬ 
fore they photographed Margaret always the unusual in Dahlias. Why did the leading 
newspapers use this photograph in photogravure in their Sunday editions in addition 
to the daily papers, because it was appealing, the unusual. 
A FEW STATEMENTS 
On file at the Patent Office at Washington, D. C., there are sworn statements made 
by America’s most select group of Dahlia experts. Here are a few 'extracts from them: 
Derrill W. Hart: “Because of color, size, beauty and form, wins the largest and 
most perfect bloom prizes.” 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe: “An outstanding white, such as this is, has been a 
desirderatum for years.” 
George W. Fraser, President, American Dahlia Society. “A model for other new 
varieties to be judged by.” 
Prof. Roland H. Patch: “The most outstanding Dahlia in the Garden.” Referring to it 
growing at Storr Trial Garden. 
W. L. W. Darnell: “Margaret E. Broomall is the best Dahlia ever produced.” 
Thomas Leavitt, Secretary National Association Commercial Dahlia Growers: “I 
consider its production a great horticultural feat.” 
J. A. Kemp: “In my opinion there is no other Dahlia like it, nor none as good.” 
William B. Sweeney, Trial Garden Committee: “It produced the largest blooms, 
combining beauty of petalage, perfect form, utterly lacking in coarseness, the writer has 
ever seen.” 
Conrad Frey: “I dare say, this is the best Dahlia that I have ever seen.” 
It is a great tribute to these experts that after five years have elapsed since these 
statements were made, their predictions have proven true, as Margaret E. Broomall is 
still the world’s greatest Dahlia, no*t by hearsay but in actual competition under the 
world’s most competent judges. We could go on telling the reader about this great 
big white, with perfect stems, and fine growing habits, but the words of the above 
experts should be more convincing than pages of what we could write. 
