CORNER PORTAGE AVENUE AND E 
The Three Rivers establishment 
was acquired to secure unlimited facil- 
ities for plant breeding-. It was se- 
lected after a search of many weeks in 
which nearly all parts of the State 
were visited. It possesses an ideal soil 
and occupies an elevated plain between 
the Portage and Rock rivers, a short 
distance north of their junction with 
the Saint Joseph. 
While we have grown the largest 
crops of small fruits without irriga- 
tion, depending on thorough cultiva- 
tion during- protracted drouths as ex- 
plained in this pamphlet, yet the suc- 
cessful propagation of plants requires 
different conditions. 
The plant is a baby. A stunted 
plant, like a stunted calf, requires a 
g-reat deal of extra feeding and care to 
bring it up, hence in order to secure a 
steady growth and development we 
have completed an extensive system of 
water works by which over six hun- 
dred thousand gallons of water per day 
are pumped up over the bluffs and dis- 
tributed to every part of the farm by 
the most perfect system known to irri- 
gation enabling us to maintain at all 
times the exact degree of moisture nec- 
essary to secure the fullest root devel- 
opment and an uninterrupted growth 
that insures a hardiness and vigor of 
plants which cannot be obtained under 
other conditions. 
Onr experimental gardiens and prop- 
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GHTH STREET, THREE RIVERS, MICH. 
agating beds are the most extensive in 
the country, where all the leading vari- 
eties of small fruits known to this lat- 
itude will be seen growing under the 
most favorable conditions. 
Our extensive correspondence with 
leading growers in every state, and vis- 
its to horticultural meetings and insti- 
tutes enables us to advise beginners as 
to the best varieties and methods 
adapted to any soil and locality. 
Letters of inquiry are cordially in- 
vited, stating briefly nature of soil, lo- 
cation an.l what you proposeto do and 
means you have of doing it and ypu 
may expect a prompt and definite 
answer. 
Three Rivers is noted as Michigan's 
beautiful city and takes its name from 
the junction of three large rivers with- 
in its corporate limits, each furnishing 
fine water powei for extensive mills 
and factories. Its fine residences, 
shaded avenues and drives together 
with its central location and railroad 
facilities, being situated at the crossing 
of the Michigan Central and Lake 
Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, 
making only a few hours by express or 
freight to Chicago, Detroit and Tole- 
do giving it fine advantages as a ship- 
ping point. 
The Ionia establishment will be 
continued as an auxiliary. 
Address all communications to R. 
M. Kellogg, Three Rivers, M.ich. 
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