Greetings 
Dear Dahlia Friends: 
While some of our friends have converted their dahlia gardens into 
Victory Gardens, some have grown their vegetables together with their 
dahlias with excellent results. We have seen head lettuce, beans, swiss 
chard, carrots, cabbage, peppers and tomatoes grown in between rows of 
dahlias. Not only having their usual fine dahlias but vegetables right up 
until frost. We all realize that those of us at the home must keep producing 
for those at the fighting front and it certainly will not be unpatriotic to 
seek some relaxation among our dahlias. The dahlia this past year helped 
raise many thousands of dollars for the Army and Navy Relief through 
the various Victory Garden Harvest Shows held throughout the country. 
So let’s continue to keep ’em growing perhaps 1943 shows will have an 
equally important function. 
In order that some of our friends may wish to grow vegetables with 
their dahlias, we are listing in our catalog some of the best varieties of 
Tomato, Cabbage, Pepper and Egg Plant plants. We can assure our friends 
that the quality of vegetable plants will be equal to those of our dahlia 
plants. 
In spite of increased costs of production, we have not advanced the 
prices of our roots, plants or seed. Due to the large amount of rainfall 
that we had this past season we have harvested the largest root crop in 
the history of our business and are in a position to supply large healthy 
roots and clumps of most all the leading varieties in our catalog. 
This past season we had for trial 26 seedlings, some of which had 
scored in the various American Dahlia Society Trial Grounds. After careful 
elimination we have confined our introductions to four, which we feel are 
up to the standard of previous RUSCHMOHR INTRODUCTIONS and 
surely should be included in your 19438 dahlia garden. 
Here’s for a bumper Victory Garden Crop, together with a glorious 
Dahlia Garden in 1948. 
Cordially yours, 
Ruschmohr Dahlia Gardens, 
H. Dewey Mohr 
Robert D. Mohr. 
