It Pays to Plant 
2 year old Cortland apple trees at Bountiful Ridge. 
Good seedling stock, planted on good soil and grown 
the Bountiful Ridge way give to the planters the best 
planting stock available. Many thousands of trees such 
as these await tthe planters call this year. Our apple 
trees have made an enviable record for growth and 
early production and superior strains. Our careful se- 
lection to type means a lot to the fruit grower. Plant 
Bountiful Ridge 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 Nurserymans 
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 LEAF 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 Stat- 
ion are cooperating in these yearly 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 
WOOD 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 BLOSSOMS AND 
FRUITS OF EACH VARIETY ARE MADE IN 
COLORS. INFERIOR TYPES OF ANY VARIETY 
HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED. THE BEST SUR- 
VIVES AS PROPOGATING TREES — SUPERIOR 
STRAINS OF VARIETIES WHICH MEANS— 
HEAVIER YIELDS— MORE DISEASE RESIST- 
ANCE—MORE RAPID DEVELOPMENT TO 
FRUITING AGE AND BETTER GENERAL SAT- 
ISFACTION TO EVERY PLANTER. 
BOUNTIFUL 
RIDGE 
GROWN 
Trees and Plants! 
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 DHE- 
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- 
FULLY — THEY PRESENT BRIEFLY WHAT WH 
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 
00 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. 
WITH 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 
FAVORABLE SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDIT- 
IONS 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 climatie 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 MAXIMUM RESULTS FROM YOUR PLANT- 
INGS 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 infectuous 
diseases. Our personal supervision extends to the 
digging, grading and packing periods to note possible 
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 ecarry 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 BOUN- 
TIFUL RIDGE TO PROTECT THE FUTURE 
LIFE AND SUCCESS OF OUR TREES AND 
PLANTS SHIPPED TO OUR CUSTOMERS”. 
