ALL STOCK WE SHIP IS TWICE INSPECTED 



CAN WE FIGHT FAIR TODAY? 



The Bountiful Ridge Nurseries has always tried to be in the open in anything they said or did towards 

 their customers. We don't claim to he perfect and we don't say that we never make a mistake, for if we 

 did we would he telling- a deliberate untruth, but we do say that we are men enough to admit our mistakes 

 when we make them and do our best to correct them. We don't want to get your order by ridiculing other 

 nurseries. We want your order on the merits of our stock and our methods of doing business. We know 

 that you are often told not to buy that southern stock or that northern stock. You are often told that you 

 will be treated unfair by dealing away from home and that the stock will be nothing but trash, inferior 

 in quality and infected with disease. You will have most any story told you in order to get your order. 

 We cannot be present to refute these charges, so we must tell you of our nursery and our stock in black 

 and white print so you can read it for yourself, and, if necessary, show it to the person who makes these 

 untrue statements about us. You can listen to his replies and draw your own conclusions. We know we 

 can depend upon you being your own honest judge. We are not way down south, neither are we way up 

 north; we are in the Temperate Zone, where the temperatures are not excessively hot nor excessively 

 cold, and our stock will do well whether planted north, south or west. Statistics show our average tem- 

 perature for the year to be 56 degrees F., as compared with 58 degrees F. at Atlanta, Georgia, 53 degrees F. 

 at Columbus, Ohio, and 50 degrees F. at Hartford, Connecticut. Our stock grows natural and is not 

 forced in order to have a large tree or plant. We used less than $400.00 worth of fertilizer this past season 

 in our nursery, where we now have growing more than seven hundred thousand fruit trees, twenty-five 

 thousand evergreens, fifty thousand flowering shrubs, shade trees and climbing vines, besides several 

 millions of strawberry, raspberry and blackberry plants and grape vines. Our stock must be hardy when 

 it is grown naturally and matured naturally and gradually in the fall of the year. We are members of the 

 American Association of Nurserymen, a national organization, and all stock is graded by the standards 

 set by this organization except where stock is graded special for some orders. You will always find our 

 stock running strong to grade, and in fruit trees they will be graded both as to height and thickness of the 

 body, which guarantees to you a uniform tree at all times. Everything we ship has been passed on by our 

 state inspector. It also passes the eyes of our experienced graders, and we guarantee our stock to be free 

 from injurious diseases of any kind. We want, to play the game fair regardless of the tactics pursued by 

 our competitors, for we feel that you, as a buyer, can discern and appreciate honest and sincere efforts. 



PROOF OF THE PUDDING 



The constant increase in the number of our customers who have sent us orders from practically every 

 state in the Union and Canada certainly speaks well for our efforts. The increasing thousands of trees 

 and plants we ship each year shows the confidence placed in us. The reports of the various state inspectors 

 who have inspected our shipments on their arrival to the planters show that we are delivering disease-free 

 stock. The many fine letters we receive from patrons in the far north prove the hardiness of our stock 

 in the northern states and in the mountainous district. The results of our stock which has been planted 

 in the far southern states, such as Texas, Arizona and Georgia, show it will do well in the south and west. 

 The fact that we invite you to come to our nursery and see the stock growing, and if you order from us 

 invite you to have your state inspector go over all stock we ship you, abiding by his instructions, replacing 

 free any stock which he might reject, proves we have confidence in our stock and that thousands of planters 

 in every part of the country have confidence in our stock, and should you place your order with us we 

 know you will boost Bountiful Ridge Nurseries stock in the future. 



WILL YOU GIVE OUR STOCK A FAIR TRIAL 



We don't say we have the best in the world, but we do say that we have as good as can be grown, and 

 we further say, quality of tree or plant, the care with which it is grown, and all we have said taken into 

 consideration, no greater values in Nursery stock can be had for the dollar invested than can be found at 

 the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries. We ask that you give our products a fair trial, wherever yon are located. 

 You can buy cheaper stock, but buying for price alone is the worst thing any orchardist, any berry grower 

 or any planter can do when he is buying Nursery stock, for he is making a permanent investment, one 

 that will be made to give profits in the years to come, and if you get started wrong it may mean the loss 

 of fortunes to you. Remember, and always choose the right source for the Nursery stock you buy, for 

 you are not going to get something for nothing anywhere. We are in close contact with conditions as they 

 exist, we have put our prices as low as it is possible to put them and still deliver the type of nursery 

 stock you should plant, so please consider this when you see lower prices quoted. Many nurseries are 

 higher in price, and have to be because of their unfavorable locations for producing the stock they sell 

 and their overhead costs, such as labor, real estate and taxes, are higher. We wish to give you the best 

 that it is possible to grow at the lowest price possible to give you. Now we are going to ask you a straight- 

 forward question. Do you approve of what we have tried to tell you? If you do, we hope you will at least 

 give us a part of your order for what stock you are going to plant this spring. We have tried to be plain 

 and honest in our story to you about our nursery and our methods of doing business. We are going to 

 carry on here at the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, and we are going to give the best we have in us to serve 

 you in a satisfactory way, and we need your order to encourage us. Bring your planting problems to us. 

 The knowledge we have gathered through years of experience may benefit you in some way. We are 

 always glad to help you when we can, and we trust you will lend a hand to a nursery that is trying to go 

 forward on a fair basis by sending your order to us this spring, whether it be for fruit trees, berry plants 

 or ornamentals. You can buy them all at the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries at prices which will mean a real 

 saving to you. 



MAKE YOUR FARMS MORE PROFITABLE AND YOUR HOMES MORE BEAUTIFUL WITH 



BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERY PRODUCTS 



