Dahlia 
Green Plants 
If you are interested in getting dahlias 
which are free of ring spot or other virus 
diseases, buy ROCKY RIVER DAHLIA 
GARDENS' green plants. We have propa- 
gated many of the older varieties for your 
protection. Our method, recommended by 
the Ohio Experimental Station, is your great- 
est assurance of ''clean stock.’ We are able 
to detect the presence of ring spot in plants 
with almost |00% certainty. 

DAHLIA GREEN PLANT 
Dahlia ‘green plants" or simply ‘plants’ as we refer to them in this book are little 
dahlia plants grown from cuttings. The cuttings are taken from selected clumps which 
are started into growth in the greenhouses during the late winter months. As soon as 
the sprouts are long enough to handle, they are taken off and placed in a special rooting 
medium. When the cuttings are rooted they are potted into three inch pots in a soil 
selected, or prepared to hold together in shipment. 
After potting, our plants are carefully grown and constantly watched to insure plants 
of highest quality. At just the right time they are moved from the greenhouses into cold 
frames for the extremely important and exacting "hardening" process. 
Our plants are shipped to all parts of the country in paper shipping pots, carefully 
packed to insure safe arrival. Planting directions are sent with each shipment. (See also 
the paragraph on plants under ‘CULTURAL HINTS" in the back of this book.) 
Properly grown plants produce flowers as early as flowers are produced from roots. 
As a rule the flowers from plants are superior. Growth, and total productivity of bloom, 
are equal to bushes grown from roots. Good clumps are formed for carrying the variety 
over winter. Plants are sold cheaper, not because of any difference in their worth, but 
because by use of careful propagation methods we are able to produce several plants 
from one root. 
Our entire life to date has been spent as a grower of plants of all kinds, and this, 
supplemented by a technical education involving this subject, qualifies us to grow plants 
which are unsurpassed in the industry. The many highly appreciated letters which we 
receive each year bear out this centention. A rapidly expanding dahlia business has 
been largely founded on the superior quality of our plants. Regardless of your previous 
experience with plants, we strongly recommend that you give some of our plants a trial. 
ROOTED CUTTINGS 
Although we do not recommend the purchase of rooted cut- 
tings by any other than experienced commercial plant growers, we 
will furnish high grade, well rooted cuttings of varieties which are 
listed in plants in this book. Prices are one-third less than the list 
price of plants. 

