Strawberries growing on our New Ground. Good Soil and Thorouffh Cultivation produce Fine Plants 
and a lot of them. 
Our Greeting to Berry Growers 
In presenting our 1918 catalog of berry plants to 
our friends, both old and new, we extend a hearty- 
wish that each one of you enjoy a happy and pros- 
perous new year. The past year was a very pros- 
perous one for us, far exceeding our expectations, 
as our plant sales showed an increase of more than 
50 per cent over any previous season. We extend 
our thanks to our many customers for their kind 
recommendations and liberal orders which have re- 
sulted in this tremendous increase in our business. 
This wonderful increase assures us that our fine 
plants and square dealing methods pleases our 
customers, and we realize that a satisfied customer 
is the best means of advertising we can hope to 
obtain. We deeply appreciate the patronage and 
continued support of our customers, and to prove 
it we are going to strive to give you even better 
service and better plants than ever before. Our 
object is to grow the best plants that can be pro- 
duced, always making quality the first considera- 
tion : next to make our prices as low as good plants 
can be grown. 
Our plants this season are all on new ground, 
and we can truthfully say that they are the finest 
plants we have ever had to offer. We have greatly 
increased our acreage and hope to be able to take 
care of 1he greatly increasing demand for our 
plants. There is no getting around the fact that 
this is the ideal spot for the growing of fruit 
plants. They grow to perfection here as the soil 
and weather conditions are particularly adapted to 
their growth. By our methods of careful selection 
of plants for our propagating beds, proper prep- 
aration of soil, continuou'i cultivation, and many 
other points essential to the successful growth of 
plants, discovered in our more than thirty years' 
experience in the berry business, we can always 
give our patrons better quality and better service 
than they had expected possible. 
When you send us your order you can rest as- 
sured that your interests will receive the same 
careful attention that we would want if we were 
ordering plants from you. In our more than thirty 
years' experience we have discovered that certain 
qualities are necessary in order to produce better 
than an average crop. It has been our constant 
endeavor to please our customers and with this 
thought foremost we have selected, . bred and pro- 
duced a strain of plants second to none in matter 
of growth, stamina and productiveness. Growing 
plants is a business, not a side line with us. We 
grow plants for the plants alone, and dig up the 
whole row, assuring you of the heaviest rooted 
and best plants in our fields. AH dead runners 
and leaves are trimmed off and all small and poor 
plants are discarded. We exercise the best of 
care in digging our plants and pei-sonally see that 
they are not exposed to the sun and wind. There 
are no storage cellars on our farms, our plants 
are dug from day to day as needed, assuring you 
of strictly fresh dug plants. We personally su- 
perintend the growing, digging and packing of 
our plants. We see that it is done in the beat 
manner possible, and as a consequence rarely re- 
ceive a complaint. 
As our soil is particularly adapted to the growth 
of fruit plants, being moist, rich and free froin 
weed seed, we can grow more plants to the acre, 
and at the same time better plants, at less cost, 
than can be grown on old, run-down soil that is 
sure to be full of weeds and insects. Here is an- 
other big difference between our plants grown on 
new, rich soil, and those sent out by a lot of 
dealers who grow them on old, i-un-out soil. The 
difference is not only in the appearance of the 
plant, but also in the increased yield and superior 
quality of the fruit grown from our plants. 
As our prices are based on the cost of pi-oduc- 
tion, we are able to save you some money and at 
the same time give you the best plants it is pos- 
sible to grow. 
Some growers and dealers will otfer you plants, 
claiming they have the best plants grown at prices 
that are away out of reason. Our advice is to 
leave these plants alone, as we have been growing 
plaiVs for more than thirty years and know that 
it is impossible to grow good plants and sell them 
at "fire sale*' prices. It may cost you a few dol- 
lars more to set an acre with our plants, but this 
will be a very small item when you realize that 
your returns will be so much more. Cheap plants 
are high at any price, and you cannot afford to 
waste good land and labor on something that will 
not produce a good profit. Strawberries are bring- 
ing more money than ever before, and you want 
to get the returns as soon as you can and as long 
as you can. You cannot do it with poor plants : 
they must be strong, healthy and :>roductih'e. We 
grow this kind on our new ground and would like 
the pleasure of filling your order this season. 
In due consideration for your best interests, we 
ask that you give us your order this season, that 
we may have the opportunity to prove to you con- 
