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To Out Customers 
and Friends 
We are pleased to send you here our new 1940 
Dahlia catalog containing, we believe, Amer¬ 
ica’s finest new Dahlia, and the pick of the foreign 
novelty champions, many that were tried in our 
own gardens last season. 
We offer choice stock only in Seeds, Roots, Pot 
Roots, Plants, Rooted Cuttings, with a view to 
giving our customers the benefit of the lowest 
prices consistent with good quality. 
Rooted Cuttings, or Cuttings, if you are pre¬ 
pared to handle and grow them, are cuttings 
taken from roots and rooted in sand, ready to be 
planted in good soil in pots; these are guaranteed 
to be healthy and true to name. 
It is our policy as far as possible, to grow 
foreign varieties, a year before we offer them. 
We now have many very new novelties that come 
reliably recommended; we will offer a list of a 
few plants only, to those keen exhibitors who 
want the very new and something your neighbor 
probably does not have. If interested ask for this 
list, ready around April 15, 1940. 
With this catalogue we cancel all previous 
price lists; all quotations from now will be based 
upon the prices in this catalog. 
Pot roots of the very new varieties will be 
available from October, 1940, at prices quoted 
here for plants. 
Yours very truly, 
MAD RIVER GARDENS 
P. 0. Box 12 Urbana, Ohio 
THE GAUMER PUB. CO.. URBANA, O. 
