It Pays to Plant 



BOUNTIFUL 

 RIDGE 

 GROWN 



Trees and Plants ! 





2 year old Cortland apple trees at Bountiful Ridge. 

 Good seedling: stock, planted on good soil and grown 

 the Bountiful Bidge way give to the planters the best 

 planting stock available. Our apple trees have made 

 an enviable record for growth and early production 

 and superior strains. Our careful selection to type 

 means a lot to the fruit grower. Plant Bountiful 

 Bidge Grown Apple Trees this year. 



Our Own Bud Wood and 

 Testing Orchard 



We point with pride to the enviable record Bountiful 

 Ridge grown trees and plants have established in fruit- 

 ing true to variety. This is one of the Nurserymens 

 greatest problems and few if any Nurserymen have 

 made a closer study of variety characteristics of the 

 different species of fruits than we here at Bountiful 

 Ridge. Our long production experience and constant 

 study of different types, has given us knowledge of 

 varieties that can be gained in no other way. Few real- 

 ize how essential this practical experience is where a 

 Nursery such as Bountiful Ridge is producing Hun- 

 dreds of Thousands of fruit trees and Millions of berry 

 plants each year. Our every thought and purpose is to 

 eliminate mistakes in Bountiful Ridge Grown Trees and 

 Plants. In addition to our own exacting care and in- 

 spections we call in : — 



THE BEST KNOWN AUTHORITIES IN THE 

 WORLD ON IDENTIFYING FRUIT VARIETIES 

 BY EEAF AND GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS— 



to go over our growing stock each year. Dr. French, Dr. 

 Roberts, and Dr. Southwick. of the Mass. Agri. College 

 and Dr. Upshall of the Vineland, Ontario, Canada. Sta- 

 tion are cooperating in these inspections of our stock. 

 This would seem enough, but we wish to go further 

 in our untiring efforts to give you the exact variety 

 you buy from Bountiful Ridge — 



WE HAVE ESTABLISHED OUR OWN BUD AVOOD 

 AND TESTING ORCHARD OF PEACH VARIETIES. 



We now have nearly 100 varieties planted in this or- 

 chard. Every tree definitely charted and definite data 

 kept on the trees behavior as well as blossom and fruit 

 types, bloom and ripening periods, relative resistance 

 to winter temperatures and spring frosts, their resist- 

 ance to the more common peach insect and fungus 

 diseases and general behavior. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS OF BEOSSO^IS AND 

 FRUITS OF EACH VARIETY ARE MADE IN 

 COLORS. INFERIOR TYPES OF ANY VARIETY 

 HAVE BEEN ELOHNATED. THE BEST SUR- 

 VIVES AS PROPOGATING TREES — SUPERIOR 

 STRAINS OF VARIETIES WHICH MEANS — 

 HEAVIER YIELDS — MORE DISEASE RESIST- 

 ANCE—MORE RAPID DEVELOPMENT TO FRUIT- 

 ING AGE AND BETTER GENERAL SATISFACTION 

 TO EVERY PLANTER. 



These varieties coming under our direct observation 

 enables us to gather a wealth of information about 

 them that could be gained in no other way, information 

 which is yours for the asking, and information which 

 can mean the difference between profit and loss to you 

 on many varieties. REMEMBER, YOU CAN GET DE- 

 PENDABLE INFORMATION HERE AT BOUNTIFUL 

 RIDGE. WE SHALL ALWAYS TRY AND ADVISE 

 YOU TO YOUR BEST INTEREST ON FRUIT AND 

 BERRY PLANTINGS. READ THESE PAGES CARE- 

 FULL — THEY REPRESENT BRIEFLY WHAT WE 

 ARE TRYING TO DO HERE AT BOUNTIFUL RIDGE. 



Location and Production Methods 



The Delmarva Peninsula is fast becoming known as 

 the greatest nursery center of the East because of its 

 very favorable climatic conditions and varied soils. We 

 often have temperatures ranging down to 10 degrees be- 

 low zero during the winter months and our frost starts 

 in early October to properly cure out our growing 

 stock; our killing frost usually coming the last week in 

 October or the first week in November. Statistics 

 show we have an average yearly temperature of 56 de- 

 grees as compared with 58 degrees Fahrenheit at Atlan- 

 ta. Ga., and 53 degrees Fahrenheit at Columbus, O., and 

 50 degrees Fahrenheit at Hartford, Conn. However, our 

 summer growing seasons are so favorable that it en- 

 ables us to produce maximum growth with a minimum 

 of fertilization. Our soil varies from a rich chocolate 

 loam, where our deeper rooted plants and trees are 

 grown to the lighter sandy soils, where our small ber- 

 ry plants and asparagus roots are grown. Our water 

 table is very close to the surface and we are seldom af- 

 fected by severe droughts. With this combination of 

 soil and climatic conditions, we know of no other sec- 

 tions that can produce nursery stock with so uniform 

 a growth from year to year. 



AVITH OVER 75 YEARS NURSERY PRODUCTION 

 EXPERIENCE IN THE KEMP FAMILY, WE ARE 

 TODAY COMBINING THIS PRACTICAL KNOWL- 

 EDGE WITH IMPROVED PRODUCTION METH- 

 ODS AND MODERN MACHINERY AND OUR FAV- 

 ORABLE SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDITIONS TO 

 PRODUCE THE BEST STOCK IT IS POSSIBLE TO 

 GROW. 



Few nurseries can point to such a winning combina- 

 tion as we have here at Bountiful Ridge. These com- 

 bined factors enables us to produce stock that will 

 adapt itself to various soil and climatic conditions 

 wherever it is planted, and gives to the planter produc- 

 ing fields that are living examples of the superiority of 

 Bountiful Ridge trees and plants. All nursery stock 

 is of perishable nature and is vitally affected by the 

 manner in which it is handled, by the producing nur- 

 sery, the transporting carrier and the planter, as well 

 as soil, moisture and general climatic conditions. Grow- 

 ing and producing fields in every section of the United 

 States attest the fact: 



PROPERLY GROWN BOUNTIFUL RIDGE STOCK 

 PLUS YOUR COOPERATION, BRINGS YOU MAX- 

 IMUM RESULTS FROM YOUR PLANTINGS YEAR 

 AFTER YEAR. 



Triple Inspection Service 



Homer S. and Edgar H. Kemp live on our main Nur- 

 sery Farm. They personally supervise all Nursery op- 

 erations. They are constantly inspecting the growing 

 nursery stock, always on the alert for possible fungus 

 and insect infections. They supervise all bud wood 

 cutting to eliminate possible distribution of infeetnons 

 diseases. Our personal supervision extends to the dig- 

 ging, grading and packing periods to note possib'.- 

 root infections. Our State maintains competent full 

 time field inspectors for the strawberry plant industry 

 of our section going over growing fields from 3 to 5 

 times each year for possible infections of Crimp, Root 

 Nematode. Red Stele Root Rot and other plant diseases. 

 All strawberry plant shipments carry a special Straw- 

 berry plant certificate. Our Raspberry plants are in- 

 spected three times during growing and digging per- 

 iods. A competent Federal inspector is maintained at 

 our Nursery during shipping periods to inspect all 

 stock going outside of the infested .Japanese Beetle 

 area. 



"NOTHING IS LEFT UNDONE HERE AT BOUNTI- 

 FUL RIDGE TO PROTECT THE FUTURE LIFE 

 AND SUCCESS OF OUR TREES AND PLANTS 

 SHIPPED TO OUR CUSTOMERS". 



