OUR 1939 INTRODUCTIONS. 
HILLSIDE SUNSET - (1939), I.D., autumn. The growth is good,with dark 
heavy foliage. Height - five feet. Roots $15.00,plants $5.00. One third 
off to the trade. 
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This is a seedling of our 1936 introduction,Margrace, and wo 
believe that it will be even more popular than it’s parent. We base 
this statement on it’s behavior in our own garden,in the gardens where 
we had it on trial and on it f s show room records. 
It was easily the most admired dahlia in our gardens this fall. 
At the Fairmont Trial Grounds Hillside Sunset scored 86,and we under¬ 
stand that there were only four Certificates given there this year. 
Mr.Currie of Sheboygan,Wise.,grew it on trial and lists it as one of 
the six new introductions for 1939 which he considers particularly 
outstanding. 
On the show table we report as follows. At the Ohio Dahlia 
Society Show at Cleveland Hillside Sunset won in the informal decora¬ 
tive undisseminated class,and was awarded the American Home Achieve¬ 
ment Medal. One of these blooms won the coveted American Dahlia 
Society Medal for the largest and best bloom in the show. 
We had a week of rain before the Mid 1/Vest Show and t^he blooms 
did not aarry so well. Regardless of this we tied with Lois' Walcher 
and Everybody’s Favorite in the informal decorative undisseminated 
class,and won the Michigan Dahlia Society Medal for the largest bloom 
grown by a commercial grower. Other winnings include a blue ribbon in 
the undisseminated class at Akron,first in the open to all informal 
decorative,autumn at the Ohio Show,and it was the central motif in our 
blue ribbon commercial display at that show. 
Eveyy since we have grown dahlias,we have hoped to win in the 
largest bloom class,and it was a source of great gratification to us 
that Hillside Sunset won two such awards this past season. You will 
find this dahlia on the leading Honor Rolls. 
HILLSIDE GOLD - (1939),straight cactus,color gold,but dark enough to 
be classed as autumn on the show table. Good growth and foliage, 
height three feet. Roots $10.00,plants $3.35. One third off to the 
trade. 
This dahlia is a fine cut flower,keeping as well when cut c^s 
any dahlia we have tried. The blooms may be cut very young. Two 
baskets of this at Cleveland attracted almost as much attention as 
Hillside Sunset. The blooms average 8x4,facing side or up. 
We did not show Hillside Gold very extensively this year,but it 
won two blue ribbons in the cactus classes,and we believe that it will 
make a place for itself on the show table. 
You will find both of the above dahlias listed in Mr.Johnson’s 
Dahliu Futurity in the January issue of House Beautiful. 
We will send you one good propagating root of each of these 
dahlias for $15.00,net. 
Walter Bissell, Austinburg, Ohio. 
