HENRY EMLONG & SONS, STEVENSVILLE, MICHIGAN. 
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Our Plants Are Packed to Reach You in Growing Condition. Strawberry Plants Are Packed in Crates, 
Baskets or Bundles. 
Buy Your Plants Direct From Grower 
Our method of selling plants direct offers you the opportunity to buy the finest 
plants that can be grown at the lowest possible cost. You get actual plant value for 
every cent invested. There are no salesman's commissions, jobber's profits or expensive 
advertising- campaigns. 
Our prices are based on the cost of production only. With a small margin of profit 
to ourselves. Remember that our plants are grown and produced under modern and 
scientific methods. We have skilled workers, up-to-date machinery and tools, and supply 
the soil upon which our plants are grown an abundance of plant food. 
This catalog is our only salesman. We want you to read it carefully as it will show 
you our methods of producing high grade plants, how we handle them and why our 
business increases so rapidly. This little salesman will give you the facts, about us and 
our plants, plainly and accurately. Tf it were possible we would like to meet every one 
of you personally, and show you the fine lot of plants we have grown this season — that 
is impo.ssible — so we will do our best by the use of word.s and pictures, to emphasize 
the fact that we can save you money on strictly high grade plants. 
We do not by any means claim to have the cheapest plants that can be bought. We 
will, however, guarantee to save you money. You certainly cannot afford to buy plants 
that have only cheapness to recommend them. The cost of growing the plant and car- 
ing for it until fruiting time is the same whether the return is $100.00 or $1,000.00 
per acre. The amount you pay for the plants does not, by any means, indicate whether 
you have made a profitable or unprofitable investment. The Crop of Berries •You 
Harvest determines the value of the plants you set. 
Our plants and our thousands of customers, together with this catalog are the only 
advertisements we have. Prom the beginning we have found it more profitable, to go to 
the additional expense of growing and shipping only plants of the highest strength 
and vitality, than to run expensive advertising campaigns in the papers, costing thou- 
sands of dollars. The man that advertises must charge more for his Plants. Advertis- 
ing does not make the plants any better but he must get more for them to pay for the 
advertising. 
If you will consider the above statement you will agree with us that our method 
is the best; cheaper for both of us as you get high grade plants at low cost and we 
get satisfied customers, which is the greatest advertisement any business can have. 
Every shipment of plants that leaves our Nursery is composed of the best plants we can 
grow and put out under the most favorable conditions known. 
Those of our readers whom we have not had the pleasure of dealing with, we 
especially request that you place your order with us We want you to compare them 
with the plants you have grown in the past. Tf you do not say they are as good or 
better, we will not of course expect more orders from you. However, we believe that in 
fairness to us you should place your order with us this season that we may have the 
opportunity to prove to you that we can save you money. 
