DAHLIAS FOR YOUR VICTORY GARDEN 
We will not issue a complete general cat- 
alog in 1943. In line with the Conservation 
Program, we are issuing this 12 Page Supple- 
ment to be used with the 1942 Catalog. There 
have been no changes in 1942 Dahlia prices, 
except reductions on those above the $1.50 
bracket. 
In the center of this Supplement, you will 
find the revised price list for 1943 with quite 
a change in the listing of Pot Roots and Plants 
that we are offering this year, so we ask that 
you use this new Price List when making out 
your order. 
PLEASE ORDER EARLY. We ask 
your cooperation this year more than ever, so 
that we may be able to have your order re- 
served and have the roots ready for filling 
your order before the rush of shipping sets in. 
Although we have plenty of good root stock 
at this time, early orders will of necessity have 
preference. The labor factor involved means 
that we must look further ahead than usual. 
A Victory Garden, according to Govern- 
ment definition, means any garden planted 
primarily for the non-commercial production 
of vegetables and small fruit. The use of 
Victory Garden Fertilizer (3-8-7) is permitted — 
by Government regulations for Victéry Gar- 
dens. It is our suggestion that you make a 
Victory Garden where you have been grow- 
ing dahlias or would like.to grow them. You 
can so arrange your rows that dahlias can be 
planted between your vegetables. You can 
grow any or all of the early vegetables by 
planting lettuce, onion sets, radishes, or early 
peas where dahlias should be planted later, 
and early beans, beets, carrots, etc. so that 
they will be between the dahlia rows. Double 
cropping, or rotation of crops, is good for the 
soil, and takes very little more fertilizer, but 
insects should be kept under control. 
We are listing an extensive number of va- 
rieties this year, but will discontinue growing 
a great number of these as we are turning 
more than half of our acreage over to the war 
effort by growing edibles. We therefore sug- 
gest that you look our list over carefully, and 
if you have any favorites in the older vari- 
eties, better get them this year and be sure of 
them. 

DAHLIADEL 1943 INTRODUCTIONS 

RHYTHM (Dozier-Dahliadel, 86 A-B) IC, 
Bloom 8-9x6, Bush 5 ft. Once every decade 
a Super Dahlia appears, such is Rhythm. It 
has form and exquisite beauty, with its dou- 
ble serrated tips. The color is an unusual 
cameo pink suffused soft rose, with soft lemon 
shadings at the base of the petals and center 
of the flower. It is not one of the ‘“‘big fel- 
lows’”’, but a beautiful dainty flower with a 
unique form that just appeals to you. One of 
the Trial Grounds describes it as an ‘‘old- 
fashioned”? pink with a silver reverse. This 
dahlia has been awarded the Derrill W. Hart 
Memorial Gold Medal, the highest award a 
dahlia can receive for Trial Ground perform- 
ance. It scored 85 at Storrs, 85 at East Lansing 
and 86% at West Virginia, where one plant 
had seventeen flowers on the first day of 
judging. In 1940 this dahlia was a winner in 
the Camden and Baltimore Seedling Classes, 
and won an Achievement Medal in Camden. 
It did very well at Scranton Trials and Certi- 
fred at Maryland Trial Grounds this year. It 
is a good root maker, and has rugged plant 
growth. All who have seen it are enthusias- 
tic. SO are we. 
Root, $15.00; Pot Root, $10.00; Plant, $7.50 
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