General Information 
Kemp’s Gardens 
To Our Flower Loving Friends and Patrons 
GREETING: 
Another year has passed, and we are glad to have this op¬ 
portunity to express to you our sincere thanks for your kind 
friendship and patronage the past year. 
Our breeding and growing floral treasures to help in the beau¬ 
tification of the gardens everywhere extends oyer a period of 
many years, and we have made many fine contributions to this 
end, but in no year have we been in a position to offer as large 
a list of high class dahlias as are found listed in this little 
book. The many new varieties we are offering are good enough 
for any Man’s Garden and for competition in any show room, 
and in the lists of the older varieties you will find many of the 
best of the exhibition varieties that have been and still are great 
prize winners, and priced so low any one can afford to have 
them. 
Look this little book of great flowers over carefully and ex¬ 
amine every page. You are almost sure to find something list¬ 
ed therein that you will wish to have in your garden this com¬ 
ing season. 
We are specialists in our line, we know how to produce good 
stock, and we feel confident you cannot get better stock any 
where in this country. We wish to particularly stress the quality 
of our green dahlia plants. Only the best selected field grown 
stock is used for propagating, it is fed just enough to keep it 
healthy and vigorous, and no better plants can be produced than 
we supply our customers. We guarantee safe arrival to any part 
of the United States and Canada. If you have never given us any 
of your business, won’t you let us have the pleasure of a trial 
order from you this year? We will do our very utmost to please 
you. 
Trusting you will favor us with a liberal share of your 1940 
business, and thanking you in advance, we remain. 
Yours for better flowers, 
KEMP’S GARDENS, Breeders and Growers, 
Box 181, Little Silver, New Jersey. 
January 1940. 
Terms of Sale —Please Read Carefully 
The following offers are made subject to prior sale, and on the 
following conditions. 
Our price quotations are for strictly first-class stock and we 
guarantee the quality to please you. Any stock that should 
prove otherwise, we will cheerfully replace it free of charge. 
Beyond that our responsibility ceases. We have no control over 
weather nor other adverse conditions that might contribute to 
failure and are therefore absolved from any blame for failures 
from causes beyond our control. 
CANADIAN REGULATIONS—To import plants, bulbs, roots 
and other nursery stock into Canada, a special permit must be 
obtained from the Secretary of the Destructive Insect and Pest 
Act Advisory Board, Dept, of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario, 
He will issue the permit and supply information as to how it is 
to be used. 
TERMS—Cash, unless otherwise agreed upon before shipment 
of the order. 
WHY YOU SHOULD PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY 
In the first place, you get first choice of stock. You are 
reasonably sure of getting the varieties you want, and as there 
is sure to be a shortage of some varieties, early ordering is an 
important consideration. It is never too soon to order early. 
Dahlia Abbreviations: F. D.—Formal Decorative: I. D.—In¬ 
formal Decorative: I. C.—Incurved Cac¬ 
tus; Str. C.—Straight Cactus; S. C.— 
Semi-Cactus. 
Divisions, mean one or more roots 
(tubers) each. 
PLEASE NOTE: Dahlia orders for less than $1.00 not ac¬ 
cepted. Practical cultural directions sent with each order. 
