Planting time is here again and this season 
brings many changes in our customary planting 
and garden plans. Our interest is in conserving 
and increasing the nation’s food supply so vege= 
tables must of necessity take a leading place in 
our gardens. This does not mean, of course, that 
we must forego the pleasure of our Dahlias 
entirely. These may easily be planned among the 
early vegetables and by the time the Dahlias 
require space the vegetables will have been har- 
vested. The commercial fertilizers now being 
sold for Victory Gardens are quite suitable for 
Dahlias and will give very satisfactory results 
if two or three applications are made through 
the season. 
We are very late in sending out this list as we 
had not anticipated publishing a price list this 
year. We have for some time been engaged in 
defense work and our help of former years are 
, either in the armed forces or have positions in 
mi defense work so that we did not think it possible 
for us to handle our usual volume of orders. 
However, many of our old friends and customers 
| have written us that while they are planting 
7 Victory Gardens, yet they still expect to have 
heir Dahlias and want some new sorts or to re= 
place winter losses of the older ones. Conse=- 
quently at this very late date we are sending you 
this abbreviated List. 



Last season was a very favorable one for root 
growth and we harvested a fine crop of roots. 
We now have them nearly divided and they are 
in prime condition for shipping and planting. 
We regret that we can not offer green plants 
this year as the lack of help has made it im=- 
possible for us to grow our usual number of 
plants. However, if you are interested in any 
particular variety in plant form please drop us a 
line as we may have a few which we are growing 
for our own use. Please refer to our 1942 list 
for further description. If you do not have a 
copy please drop us a line as we have a very 
limited number on hand. 
