SILVER ANNIVERSARY of Our Catalog 
Copyright, 1939 by Warren W. Maytrott. 25th Edition 
We are pleased to submit this, the 25th edition of 
our catalog and thank our many customers for their 
loyal support and friendship which made this possible. 
Hoping you will find this edition most interesting and 
instructive and trust we will merit your continued co¬ 
operation. 
Dahliadel is now offering for the first time Pot 
Roots and Rooted Cuttings. We are continuing our 
policy of recommending that which we think best for 
your guidance. We have been supplying stock in the 
form of Field Grown Root Divisions and established 
Green Plants for many years, but with advancement 
in production methods we want to pass on this saving 
in production cost to those who have the equipment 
and want to do more of the growing themselves. 
POT ROOTS 
We have grown Pot Roots for a number of years for 
our own planting but are offering a limited number of 
them to our customers this year. Pot Roots are small 
clumps grown in 3" pots in the open during the sum¬ 
mer, then grown in greenhouses and allowed to ripen 
naturally by the end of December. We can recom¬ 
mend Pot Roots for garden planting as we believe 
them equal to Root Divisions in every way while in 
price they are 1/3 less than Root Divisions because of 
lower production cost. 
Pot Roots will produce bushes and blooms equal to 
Root Divisions or Green Plants and in most cases pro¬ 
duce clumps equal or better than divisions, and in 
nearly all cases larger and better than from Green 
Plants or Rooted Cuttings. You will find a list of 
Pot Roots on page 44. 
GREEIM PLANTS 
Dahliadel plants are sprouts or cuttings taken from 
stock of named varieties, grown in specially built 
greenhouses, rooted in sand benches in air-conditioned 
propagating houses, potted and grown inside until 
established, then moved to cold frames for hardening 
off, ready for shipping and field planting. 
We have grown for ourselves and shipped success¬ 
fully to others, hundreds of thousands of green plants 
and have found them very satisfactory for a goodly 
number of our customers who understand their care 
and want the new varieties at a substantial saving in 
price which is about 2/3 less, or 1/3 the price of roots 
on the higher priced varieties. 
Green Plants, when properly grown from healthy 
stock, give equal or better blooms, than from roots 
ami most varieties make a nice clump. The way the 
plant is grown has a lot to do with root production, 
but we believe by following our cultural instructions 
you will have roots as well as blooms. 
Plants are superior to rooted cuttings especially for 
those who do not have cold frames or do not do some 
propagating or grow other plants for themselves. Of 
course, all plants were rooted cuttings before potting 
up and therefore an established plant is older and 
more hardy for shipping. 
Dahliadel green plants are properly grown and 
hardened for shipment and in our specially designed 
shipping box have been successfully sent all over the 
United States. 
ROOTED CUTTINGS 
While we do not recommend rooted cuttings to 
those who have never grown them or do not have 
proper facilities and time to care for them and grow 
them into plants ready for garden planting, we real¬ 
ize there are a number of dahlia enthusiasts who do 
some of their own propagating and can handle rooted 
cuttings satisfactorily. We have made a number of 
test shipments of rooted cuttings in the past few 
years so we know how to pack and ship them to you 
in good condition. Further directions will be found 
on page 28. 
Rooted cuttings are 1/3 less than plants. For ex¬ 
ample, a variety that would sell at $3.00 a root, $1.00 
a plant, would be .67 for a rooted cutting. By avail¬ 
ing yourself of Quantity Discounts 3 rooted cuttings 
would be $1.80, 6 for $3.50 or 12 for $6.00, or the price 
of 2 $3.00 roots. 
DAHLIADEL’S WINNING DISPLAY AT NEW YORK AND CAMDEN 
Winning A.D.S. Gold Medal for Most Outstanding and Meritorious Commercial Exhibit at New York, 1938 
