We Wish to Announce that 
MR. H. DEWEY MOHR 
of the 
RU'SHMOHR DAHLIA GARDENS 
52 South Kensington Avenue 
Rockville Center, New York 
Is a co-partner with us in the introducing of Purple Mist 
A TRIP TO MICHIGAN DAHLIA GARDENS 
By George R. Currie 
(See page 34 of Mid-West Dahlia News—Fall Edition, 1936) 
This last fall ( 1936) I spent my vacation in visiting the 
Trial Gardens at East Lansing, the National Dahlia Show 
at Detroit and the dahlia gardens throughout the State of 
Michigan. 
Mrs. Currie and I took our car across Lake Michigan on 
the ferry, from Manitowoe, Wisconsin, to Ludington, Michi¬ 
gan. This was on September 18th. After attending the Trial 
Gardens, and the Dahlia Show, we headed toward the southern 
part of the state, and paid a visit to the dahlia gardens of 
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Emmons. 
A year ago one of the outstanding varieties at the Eart 
Lansing Trial Grounds which I observed there was a very 
large purple formal decorative, which was awarded a certificate 
of merit, and it was a real thrill to see a large number of plants 
of this very fine origination of Mr. Emmons in his own 
garden. This variety grows about five to five and a half feet 
in height with dark green healthy foliage and the large purple 
blooms are carried well out of the foliage on very long straight 
stems. Mr. Emmons informed us that Purple Mist won the 
American Home Achievement Medal at the Dahlia Society 
of Ohio show at Cleveland this year. Other varieties doing 
well in this garden were Lord of Autumn, Amelia Earhart, 
and Palo Alto, and we also observed there the finest bloom 
of Girl of Hillcrest we had ever seen. 
Our visits to the Michigan Dahlia gardens and our attend¬ 
ance at the Detroit show and the East Lansing Trial Grounds 
Field Day proved a most pleasant vacation, and one of the 
most enjoyable features was the opportunity to renew old 
acquaintanceships and to make new ones. 
THE MID-WEST DAHLIA NEWS 
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No dahlia raiser can afford to be without it. It not only 
gives you all the information that you are seeking about 
dahlias, but all that is going on in the dahlia world, as well 
as who is who in this great flower. 
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The size of the flowers, and the height of the plants, given 
in this catalog, will vary in different locations. We give the 
approximate dimensions as they grew this last year in our 
gardens. 
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