General Information Kemp's Gardens 

To Our Flower Loving Friends and Patrons 
GREETING: 
For over 60 years we have been identified with the horticultural 
industry in its various branches including breeding work which be- 
gan over 40 years ago. We were associated with the late Dr. Walter 
Van Fleet in his plant breeding work for a number of years. He 
was considered one of the most successful hydridizers in America. 
To him, we are greatly indebted for the training in scientific plant 
breeding which later led up to our own success in the breeding of 
Cannas, Roses, Gladiolus, Dahlias, Japanese Irises, etc. Many of 
our originations have found their way into the gardens of patrons in 
every quarter of the globe. 
We have every reason to feel proud of the success of our breed- 
ing work which is still in progress. Our work of late years has 
been centered mostly on dahlia breeding. We have a number of 
very fine varieties on the way for 1943 introduction. 
We wish particularly to stress the high quality of our dahlias, 
both roots and potted green plants. Our green plants are propo- 
gated from base cuttings of the choicest field grown stock, selected 
while the plants are still in full growth and bloom, and marked for 
propogating. Thus all guess work is eliminated as to quality. We 
know good stock must be used to produce good healthy plants. We 
are confident you cannot get better stock anywhere, regardless of 
price. 
The new and older varieties of dahlias offered in this catalog are 
of high order, and superior quality stock. Many of the older varieties 
have been and still are great prize winners, and the prices are now 
so reasonable any one can afford them. It costs no more to plant 
and cultivate a good variety than it does a poor one. 
If you have never given us any of your business, won't you please 
let us have the pleasure of serving you this year? We will do our 
utmost to serve you well. 
Kindly look this little book of great flowers over carefully; go 
over it page by page. If you will do this, you are almost certain 
to find something listed therein that you will wish to have in your 
1942 garden. 
Thanking you, and with best wishes for a greater and better 
garden year, we remain, 
Yours for better flowers, 
KEMP’S GARDENS, Breeders and Growers, 
January, 1942 Box 181, Little Silver, New Jersey. 

Terms of Sale—Please Read Carefully 
The following offers are made subject to prior sale, and on the 
following conditions. 
Our price quotations are for strictly first-class stock and we 
guarantee the quality to please you. Any stock that. should prove 
otherwise, we will cheerfully replace it free of charge. Beyond 
that our responsibility ceases. We have no control over weather 
nor other adverse conditions that might contribute. to. failure and 
are therefore absolved from any blame for failures from causes be- 
yond our control. 
CANADIAN REGULATIONS~—To import plants, bulbs, roots and 
other nursery stock into Canada, a special permit must be obtained 
from the Secretary of the Destructive Insect and Pest Act Advisory 
Board, Dept. of Agriculture, Ottawa, Ontario. He will issue the 
permit and supply information as to how it is to be used. 
TERMS—Cash, unless otherwise agreed upon before shipment of 
the order. 

WHY YOU SHOULD PLACE YOUR ORDER EARLY 
In the first place, you get first choice of stock. You are reason- 
ably sure of getting the varieties you want, and as there is sure to be 
a shortage of some varieties, early ordering is an important considera- 
tion. It is never too soon to order early. 

Dahlia Abbreviations. F. D.—Formal Decorative; I. D.—Informal 
Decorative; I. C.—Incurved Cactus; Str. C.— 
Straight Cactus; S. C.—Semi-Cactus. 
Divisions, mean one or more roots (tubers) 
each. 
PLEASE NOTE: Dahlia orders for less than $1.00 not accepted. 
Practical cultural directions sent with each order. 
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