The Marvelous Dahlia is Not Only a Man’s Flower—A Lady’s as Well. 
“SUPER DAHLIA SEED” 
Have you been looking for an outstanding dahlia, that you would like to 
name after yourself, or some beloved friend ? If you have, then I have the seed 
from which these beauties can be raised, as can be attested to by the many 
visitors to my gardens the past season. 
My seed is hand picked and selected from over 300 varieties of Honor 
Roll dahlias, in my gardens, and it is for this reason, and this reason only, that 
I can give the following GUARANTEE, that more than 50% of these will 
show full, double and tight centers, and that among these you will get some 
that are as good, if not better, than any outstanding variety you have in your 
garden, no matter what they are. 
Price 50 Seeds $3.00 100 Seeds $5.00 
FURTHER PROOF OF OUR RELIABILITY 
South Richmond, Virginia, 
Dear Mr. Parrella: 
You were kind enough to send me a second lot of fifty dahlia seeds when 
my first lot failed to mature. Now I would like to tell you how I appreciate 
your fine way of doing business and also about the sixteen dahlias I did raise, 
any one of which would have cost twice the amount of the seeds plus the 
labor had the tuber been purchased from a grower. 
Eleven of the sixteen bloomed—all were fully double and the very smallest 
was more than eight inches across pure white and I believe perfect in form; the 
largest bloom was a giant bronze and the neighborhood sensation. Few people 
really believed they were from the seed. 
All the blooms were a different color except two that were painted a 
beautiful salmon pink. The ones that were planted too late to bloom before 
the frost killed the tops, I cut back and covered the hills with straw, and when 
they were dug just before the ground froze you would have been surprised 
how large the tubers were; so I am sure they will bloom this sason. Thank 
you again. 
MRS. M. 
TOWERS EMPIRE was a great surprise to us; we expected it to be good, 
but were led to believe that it was unusually tall and late in bloom. It was 
better than good! It was extra good in all ways, habit of growth, stems, 
blooms, keeping qualities—in fact, we did not find a single flaw in it. Under 
our methods of growth it was very uniformly about 5% feet tall, an open 
grower, needed no pruning, came into bloom early and kept on producing 
magnificent blooms until cut down by frost last Tuesday, October 27th. We 
cut more blooms of Tower’s Empire than of any other single dahlia. The 
dahlia world had not heard enough about this fine flower, every garden needs it. 
Very sincerely yours, 
EARL B. MOYER. 
54 West St., Moncton, N. B., Canada, 
April 16th, 1936. 
Dear Sir: 
I am writing at this late date to thank you for the extra dahlia tuber you 
sent me last year with my order, namely, Alyce Marie Galvin. The dahlia 
tubers I received were the best I grew last year and I was more than pleased. 
Hagerstown, Maryland. 
Dear Sir: 
Roots T received from you this spring all doing fine. Thanks for the extras. 
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