I Grow the Best — Discard the Rest 
To My Friends . . . Greetings: 
It is with pleasure that I present you with this, my Dahlia Catalog for 
1940. Your generous and kind support is thoroughly appreciated and inspires 
me to continued effort to make available to you only the best. 
This catalog would not be complete if I were not to take advantage of the 
opportunity to thank you for your many letters telling of various successes 
obtained from stock purchased from me. I am grateful to those who have been 
able to visit my gardens as well as those who have inspected my exhibits at 
the American Dahlia Society Shows, and many other shows we attend, because 
I feel my dahlias speak best for themselves. 
To those who are familiar with my stock, no introduction is necessary and 
you have my pledge that the same quality will not only continue but improve 
if such is possible. To those who have not tried my service this is an invitation, 
an invitation that may prove a real opportunity for you to realize something 
you may not have been able to obtain elsewhere and no order is too small nor 
is any contract too large, I am pleased to serve you. 
ALBERT PARRELLA. 
IMPORTANT NOTICE — DO NOT OVERLOOK 
Due to the limited space we are compelled to be brief with our descriptions. 
However, we want our patrons to know that the varieties listed in this Catalog 
are either Honor Roll, Certificate Winners, or has proven with us to be truly 
outstanding. Not only that, but the varieties offered are reliable in every 
respect, good growers, fine producers, insect resisting foliage and most of them 
are of large size blooms, and true prize winners. If you are interested in large 
size dahlias, you surely are not going wrong by ordering from us. This may 
be of interest to you to know that we do not force our dahlias for size, but 
we are gratified to know that our cu.stomers secure the lion’s snare of prizes 
at the Show. 
VISITORS ARE WELCOME 
You are cordially invited to bring along as many friends as you possibly 
can to my gardens at any time after August 15th and see this magnifi'- nt 
sight. You are under no obligation to buy, but welcomed and I will be as 
happy to see you as you will be to see this magnificent collection of gorgeous 
massive flowers in all of the colors, shades, and tints of the rainbow. 
I will have over 300 varieties, most of them Honor Roll dahlias, as well 
as many promising seedlings, and many new ones sent by other growers for 
trial and that have not been released for sale as yet, as well as many novelties. 
We want to thank those who have sent to us Seedlings for trial this past 
season. Assure you we have given them the best of attention. We would ap¬ 
preciate receiving more of them for the coming season providing they are good. 
We will do all we can to put them over. 
If there is any variety that you’re interested in and don’t find listed, 
write to us, we may be able to accommodate you, as we have many more 
varieties but only in small quantities, and that is why we have not listed 
them. 
PARRELLA DAHLIA GARDENS 
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