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PUBLISHED BY 
WAYLAND DAHLIA GARDENS 
k E. R: RYNO; PROP. 
WAYLAND, MICHIGAN 

SEASON OF 1943 


Administrative help seems to be 
most difficult to obtain at the present 
time. This means that many of us 
are apt to experience a bottleneck in 
connection with our office operations; 
and delays in connection with the 
rendering of invoices, answering of 
correspondence, etc., will have to be 
overlooked to a limited extent. We all 
want to win this war and our one 
prayer should be that God give the 
Administration the guts to carry it 
through without mercy to our gang- 
ster enemies. 
Every year we have many requests 
for prices on undivided clumps of 
dahlias. To these inquiries we wish 
to state that we do not sell or offer 
for sale undivided clumps at any time. 
We have ample storage space for our 
entire crop, and all clumps are cut to 
one-eye divisions ready for planting 
when offered for sale. 
We have been growing dahlias for 
a great many years and we admit 
that in many points we have strayed 
from the beaten paths as regards our 
method of handling our stock. Most 
growers wait until spring before di- 
viding their clumps but this would be 
impossible with us both beczuse of 
the very large number of clumps we 
have to divide and because of the fact 
that we usually start shipping in 
December. It is, therefore, necessary 
that we start dividing our clumps 
just as soon as we are done digging. 
When the divisions are made each 
root is trimmed, all fresh cuts are 
treated with hydrated l:me to prevent 
mold and rot and all roots are 
stamped with varietal number before 
being placed in our stock room where 
they remain until time for shipment. 
As we keep this room dark, cool and 
at a very high humidity point — just 
below the point of drip — we are 
thus able to carry our stock through 
in perfect condition without having 
roots rct or shrivel before spring. 
Once in a while a customer will 
ask us to send him roots which have 
not been trimmed, treated or 
stamped. When order is given early 
we can prepare roots in this manner 
but we really believe it is to the in- 
terest of our customers that we 
process roots in our regular manner 
because by trimming off unnecessary 
parts of the root we save on storage 
space, by treating each root we in- 
sure against all danger from decay 
and by stamping varietal number on 
all roots we avoid all possibility of 
varieties becoming mixed in handling. 
With so many years of experience 
and with such extensive plantings to 
back up our methods we believe all 
our customers can feel assured that 
stock is handled absolutely right at 
our point, especially when it is con- 
sidered that all this extra work on 
our part costs money which we cer- 
tainly would not spend if we did not 
think it necessary. 
Almost invariably the first question 
asked by those who visit our gardens 
is, “What kind of fertilizer do you 
use?” On our main fields our first 
season a heavy crop of alfalfa was 
plowed under. The following season 
this ground was turned back and an 
application of 2-12-6 made at plant- 
ing time. The following year this 
ground was turned over and 3-12-12 
used at planting time. The next year 
an application of equal parts of bone 
meal and pulverized sheep manure 
was made and next, in the absence of 
a green cover crop forty-five yards 
(about twenty-two and one-half tons) 
of rotted manure per acre were ap- 
plied. This same program has been 
followed by us for a number of years 
and except when weather conditions 
are very much against us, as they 
were last fall, we honestly believe 
that we produce as fine a product as 
can be grown anywhere on earth. 
After planting both hand and 
power cultivation is maintained con- 
stantly until blooming time and every- 
thing that can possibly be dene to 
improve our product is done regard- 
less of expense. We cordially invite 
our customers to visit our fields with 
confidence that they will agree that 
we are just as careful and thorough 
in our growing methods as_ they 
themselves would be were they grow- 
ing the same crop. 
The Best Bi-color 

WM. H. HOGAN 
This is a huge red tipped white 
decorative Honor Roll dahlia that al- 
ways attracts attention wherever 
shown. Stock is somewhat limited 
and at our price, 5c, will go quick. 
Don’t delay your order for this 
variety. 

9 
Different 
Collections RAF 
BLUE LABEL 
Dahliat- 
PER 
BOX 
54 
Different 
Varieties 
NOW 
ONLY 

Six fine Dahlias in each box 
While our new line of boxed dah- 
lia collections is intended primarily 
for counter trade, we see no reason 
why these boxes would not appeal 
to the mail order customer. 
Hach collection comprises six fine 
dahlias in a perfectly balanced range 
of colors and weigh approximately 
one pound each. If offered in a mail 
order catalog at the regular retail 
price we think you would be justified 
in asking that the customer add the 
mailing charges if ordered _ sep- 
arately but if ordered with other 
goods the extra postage would then 
be such a small amount that you 
could afford to offer them postpaid 
at the regular price and still make 
a good profit. 
We can supply a mat of the above 
cut for use in local newspaper adver- 
tising or in your catalog or broad- 
side, and detailed list of varieties in- 
cluded in each of the nine collections 
will be ready after digging time in 
October when allotments of stock for 
this purpose will be made and full 
details will be presented in the Retail 
Store Edition of our Bulletin January 
first. 
VF 
BLUE LABEL 
Dahlias. 
If you want one of the above elec- 
tros for your letterhead ask for it in 
your order. 
