Lakeside Dahlia Gardens 
P^ew Baltimore, Michigan 
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FOREWORD 
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GREETINGS! —Customers and friends, and we do know that all our customers 
are our friends. We have enjoyed doing business with you the past years, and we 
hope that there will be a continuance of friendly business during the coming years. 
With the constantly increasing number of new dahlias being placed on the 
market each season, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the amateur to really 
know what to buy. It is even worse for the older grower, or commercial grower. 
Each season we buy what we feel is the best of the new introductions only to discover 
each blooming season, that part of them were not what they were cracked up to be, 
and certainly nothing in the way of improvement over varieties already on the 
market. In fact, we have thrown out several yearling seedlings for many seasons, 
which were better in every way than many new dahlias we have purchased, each 
season. We also know that this is true of many other growers. 
Sometimes this is true because of different soil conditions, or climatic conditions, 
and a dahlia that will do well for instance in Red Bank, New Jersey, may not do well 
in Indianapolis, or Minneapolis. However, when we hear from our friends in other 
parts of the country, and they give us the same report on a certain dahlia, we feel 
quite sure it was simply a case of where the dahlia was not what it should have been. 
We tell you the truth when we say 10 inches, that means in any good ground. 
We do not say 14 inches, as can be grown, by forcing the life out of your roots; just 
follow our instructions on Page 23 and you will have good Flowers and Roots. 
We are having our new dahlias grown by good growers in several parts of the 
country, and unless they do well for all of them,, we just don’t offer them to the public. 
The dahlia is growing in popularity with gardeners all over the country. It is 
the No. 1 flower in popularity today, and is being grown by more people each season. 
The dahlia, you see, today will not be in the same class with what you will see in 
1949. With the millions of seeds planted each season, the better selection of pod 
parents, the more careful scrutinization being given the new things by the various 
dahlia societies, and dahlia fans, it is only reasonable to assume that we are going 
to see better color, better growth, more ease in culture, and bigger dahlias for those 
who like the big fellows, and smaller and more refined dahlias for the lovers of the 
little fellows. 
There was a great demand for green plants in the past year, the explanation 
is given in two reasons, one is that people are getting accustomed to green plants, 
and the second is that it is possible to obtain three plants of one variety or one plant, 
each of three varieties for the price of one root. Bear in mind, when you buy that 
a plant produces just asi good a clump of tubers and usually better blooms than roots. 
We wish you all the best dahlia year you have ever had. 
, Sincerely, 
U4KESIDE DAHETA GARDENS. 
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