177 ACRES—ONE MILLION TREES 
Plant Bountiful 
Ridge Trees 
They Bring Results 
Plant Bountiful 
Ridge Trees 
They Bring Results 
Sole Introducers 
The Hope Farm Peach 
Also Introducers 
of the New Apple 
originating on Hope Monmouth Beauty 
Farm, owned by H. W. 
Collingwood, Editor The 
Rural New Yorker. 
America’s Most 
Beautiful Apple 
Growers and Distributors of the New RICHARED Apple—the all Red DELICIOUS Supreme 
The BLAXTAYMAN—a new ALL RED Staymans Winesap 
Also Apple, Peach, Pear, Cherrp and Plum Trees, Evergreens, Roses and 
Shrubberp and Other Small Wines 
PRINCESS ANNE, MD. 
Dear Friends: 
It seems we get so few opportunities to see our patrons personally so as to discuss 
things in general that when the time comes to write a letter such as this there is so much 
to discuss we just don't know where to start and leave off. Right now, for instance, some 
of you are wanting to know why we did this and why we did not do that last Spring during 
the shipping season and want to know how the stock is for this year and what the prices 
are going to be and if we are going to try and give better service and stock this year. 
We are wanting to know how the stock which you purchased last year did for you and if you 
are going to plant this Fall and next Spring and above all if you are considering buying 
your trees and plants from the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries. 
We are proud of the fact that we made many new customers last Spring and are proud 
of the loyalty shown by our old customers. Our Nursery will continue to expand with such 
loyal support from you and we are surely going to try to grow stock and give service in 
the future which will justify your continued support. We were compelled to do many things 
we did not like to do during the past Spring but try as we did we could hardly cope with 
existing weather conditions at times during the shipping season. We do not approve of 
Winter storage for fruit trees and naturally we must depend on digging our stock during 
the Spring months. We had one of the most severe Winters we have experienced in many 
years which did not permit us to start our digging at the usual time. Following the 
thaw up it rained almost constantly for several weeks which made it impossbile at times to 
get into the fields to dig trees. We often ran our tree digger when the water was running 
down the rows behind the tractor and it was necessary that every man wear boots so as to 
pull the trees from the rows. We hired many extra men and worked when it was not fit for 
anyone to work in an effort to try and get our shipments out on time. We just could not do 
it in some cases but we surely did the best we could and we appreciate the spirit of un- 
derstanding shown by many and hope that those who became impatient are now getting satisfac-— 
tory results from the stock shipped them. These unusual difficulties showed us some weak 
links in our chain of service which we are going to try and strengthen for we want 
everyone who deals with us satisfied. We hope you do not expect the impossible, something 
you would not be willing to give or do yourself, for we are sure that you are often brought 
under the same difficulties only possibly in a different way. We know we are not perfect 
and make mistakes at times for we are human. We wish, however, to profit by our mistakes 
so that they will not reoccur and we hope that you will cooperate to that end. 
Our favorable location again proved its real advantages during the past Winter when 
so much damage was done in other sections of the Country to growing Nursery Stock by ex-— 
tremely low temperatures. We did not experience any damage to our growing stock and as a 
consequence we have a very fine lot of trees and plants to offer for this Fall and next 
Spring's shipment. There is a great shortage of Apple, Plum and Cherry in two year trees 
with a fair supply of one year trees. The shortage is not quite so acute with Peach trees 
but if the trees were replanted that were killed during the past Fall and Winter by the 
storm which swept the Eastern Seaboard last August and by the low temperatures of last 
Winter, there would not be enough Peach Trees in the Nurseries to go around. 
We have given a great deal of consideration to prices for this Fall, and if we would 
follow the practice of other merchandising firms when a shortage exists on certain com— 
modities, we would advance them materially. Our running expenses have naturally increased 
during the past eighteen months, which necessitates some advance in our prices, but in all 
cases we have tried to limit these advances as much as possible, tree fruits being about 
the only items which we have advanced in price. We have advanced our prices very little, 
putting them where we believe them to be fair to both of us in an effort to co-operate 
with our patrons, giving the results of our years of experience, giving stock we believe 
to be as good as money can buy regardless of price. We have dealt with you enough to be- 
lieve you will appreciate this and will again look to us for your trees which you will 
want to plant this Fall and next Spring, and if you do we shall certainly try to justify 
your continued confidence. 
Very truly yours, 
BOUNTIFUL RIDGE NURSERIES 
L EES 
Homer cmt 
HK-B ASS'T. MGR. 
