KUNZMAN, NEW ALBANY, INDIANA 3 
Speaking of floods, when the Ohio Valley was swept 
by water in the Spring of 1937 many of our customers 
wrote us about orders they had booked, and all season 
practically every order was preceded by a letter inquir¬ 
ing whether we were still able to supply roots or if the 
flood had destroyed our stock. 
Since there is every indication of another flood this 
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year, we want to assure our friends and customers that 
we are several miles from the flood district and will be 
high and dry this year as we were in the 1937 disaster. 
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Field Notes 
Little Maude Adams started blooming early (as usu¬ 
al) this season. The flowers are just as dainty as ever, 
and a bouquet lasts for days. 
America’s Sweetheart and Rose Glory are perform¬ 
ing wonderfully — enormous, solid blooms, profusely 
borne. A lady from Lexington, Kentucky, visited us 
today. She had America’s Sweetheart, and said it had 
performed so weakly, throwing deformed half-flowers 
and so few, even, of them, that she intended discarding 
it altogether. Her report surprised us, and we asked 
where she bought her stock. Her reply that they came 
from ‘up East’ did not surprise us, however, since so 
many of our customers give us a similar report on 
over-fertilized stock. What a shame that such fine, 
beautiful varieties of dahlias should be so over-propa¬ 
gated and forced as to make the resulting roots worth¬ 
less!! 
Baby Royal and Bo-Peep seem to be racing to see 
which can bear the most flowers. Almost an endless 
amount could be cut from either variety. 
America’s Sweetheart, Rose Glory, Oakleigh Monarch 
and Blue River are the four most popular varieties in 
our fields this year. Red Giant, Chemar’s Eureka, San- 
hican Monarch and Margaret Woodrow Wilson are most 
admired in the lower priced varieties. 
