Direct Mailing Service 
Where customers prefer to have us mail their Dahlias direct from our place, we are prepared to make direct 
shipments thus saving them the cost of transportation and rehandling and insuring their customers absolutely fresh 
roots direct from our cellans. 
If you are located within the Japanese Beetle zone this service will be particularly desirable because it will re- 
lieve you of ali bother of inspections of individual shipments.. 
We provide you with a combination shipping order, invoice and mailing sticker, giving you a complete record cf 
each transaction—varietes ordered, cost, date shipped, etc..—for your files and the total cost of this service is really 
less than it would cost you to mail stock from your own place. 
Such customers as the R. M. Kellogg Company, A. E. Kunderd, Inc., and others iave used this service for years, 
and we refer you to them as to the manner in which we handle tineir orders. 
If you are interested in this service we shall be pleasxd to give you any further information you wish. 
Custom Packing 
We are especially equipped to pack Dahlia roots in any kind of container you may desire. If you wish stock 
put up in any kind of box, whether for counter trade or for direct mailing, boxes plain or printed in colors, we can 
supply same to meet your particular requirements, whatever they may be, and at a cost representing the price of the 
roots plus actus! cost of sucn container. 
In this connection we would call attention to the provisions of the new Food and Drug Act which went into effect 
June 25, 1939, one of which bars from trade deceptive packages and containers of merchandise. Many retail stores 
are offering Dahlias nacked in boxes as large as 8% to 9% inches long, each of which contains a single root 3 or 4 
inches long . So far we have heard of no complaint regarding such containers (the Dahlia planting season was over 
before the law went into effect last year) but to guard against the possibility of complaint on this point we believe it 
would be wise for our customers to consider the provisions of the law before making contracts for their packages 
another season. It is immaterial to us whether we pack your roots in boxes six inches long or in one as long as a 
shoe box, but we don’t want to have our customers load up with a lot of specially made cartons which might have 
to be discarded before they could all be used. We suggest that you tell us your particular needs in this line and let us 
work out the kind of package whic we think will best meet your requirements and yet come within the provisions of 
the law. 
Remember | 
We are Dahlia growers, not jobbers We own our own farms and storage and packing house, and have complete 
facilities for handling a crop of three million roots per year. 
We plant, cultivate and harvest our crop with the aid of the latest machinery, and our prices are based on the 
actual cost of production with one fair grower’s profit added. You get stock of known origin and are at all times 
sure of your supply when you deal with us. 
Why not give us your business in our line? 


To insure complete coverage of your requirements for 1941 
Send Reserwation Order Now! 
Wayland Dahlia Gardens, Wayland, Michigan 

