THIS MAP shows our location in the Michigan Fruit Belt on two great railroad systems,^ with 
several fast through express trains daily, delivering freight the same night it leaves here to Chicago, 
Toledo, Indianapolis and Detroit, where plants are sent in fast through frights to St. Louis, Kansas 
City, Omaha, St. Paul, Cincinnati, Cleveland, llutTalo and all intermediate points. 
Place your orders early so that jilants may he sent while dormant and weather cool. If to be for- 
warded by " freight, it is advisable to confer with your local freight agent as to time from above named 
points. Give full directions and route Cor shipnieiU. 
Special Notice. Please note the fact that express companies give a special discount to nursery- 
men of twenty per cent, and pound rates, so Ihllt you pay only the exact nmnber of pcnnids the pack, 
ages weigh; thus you can send here for your thoroughbred strawberry plants and elsewhere for any 
bush fruits you m.ay «\;nit without any additional cxiuiise for expressage. 
GETTING RICH. 
Getting rich is an art. Few men get rich on 
a salary. They must take something costing 
but little, and add to it brains and muscle and 
make it worth a great deal. They must pro- 
duce something out of the common that sells 
at a large profit. Some men quickly' get a 
home and pay for it and surround thetnselves 
with luxuries, and find a good deal of pleas- 
ure in life, while others work hard every day 
and plod on to the end of life without a home 
or common comforts. 
One man pays half a cent for a strawberry 
plant, puts it into rich land, adds a little labor 
to it, and it returns to him two to four quarts 
of high priced berries, and the whole field be- 
ing covered with the same, he finds it easy to 
pay bills and at the close of the season he adds 
a good sum to his bank account. 
Another man gets his plants for a quarter 
of a cent, and gives it tlie same labor and land, 
and finds too late that it has no fruit produc- 
ing system, but runs all to foliage and barely 
yields a pint of berries which sell for a low 
price after a great deal of begging for a pur- 
chaser. He finds at the close of the season the 
entire receipts consumed in paying running ex- 
penses, and gets nothing for his own labor, 
■^bout the only pleasure he gets out of it is 
that he saved a quarter of a cent on his plant, 
which the other man paid. 
How much did that quarter of a cent cost 
him? ft looks as it it might be forty cents. 
It's a good plan to study the habits of rich 
people. You notice they always buy the very 
best, not because they are rich, but because 
that is the way they got rich. 
Did you ever hear of a person getting rich 
who always bought cheap stuff? Nothing is 
truly cheap which consumes labor and in its 
nature can give only a poor return. 
It is all right to work by the day till you get 
a start, but it is delightful to be your own 
master and run j'our own business. 
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