THIS MAP shows our location in the Michigan Fruit Belt on two great railroad systemsj^^th sev- 
eral fast throuL^i express and freight trains daily, delivering freight the sam^e night it leaves here in Ch.- 
clgo Toledo, Indianapolis and Detroit, where plants are sent in fast through freights to St. Louis, Kansas 
Citv Omaha St. Paul, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, and all intermediate points. , ^ , 
Place your orders early so the plants may be sent while dormant and weather cool. If to be for- 
warded by Cight it is adviLble to confer with W local freight agent as to time from above named 
points. Give full directions and route for shipment. 
TWENTIETH CENTURY HORTICUI^TURE. 
The Question of permanently improving plants by growing them under the most favorable conditions 
nent sc^entiste. foremost horticultural investigator of our generation, says on page 128 of his 
.o{iI?,Vlt;ni;on ■•P^antBreedine '' "We need not so much varieties with new names as we do a 
'^eraT ncrease in pro^ucSess^and efficiency of the types we already possess. • ' Page 118, ••The per- 
fo^who wisWfor new varieties should look critically to all perennial plan sand particular y to trees 
son wlio i« ^i'^"'„h " -ieties or snorts Page 122, '• Even when the desired variety is attained it must be 
Tent UP to Se s^iXd by c^Lnt attention 'to selection. There is no real stability in the forms of 
plant li^e" Page 119! "It 15 possible to improve and fix the type by bud selection as well as seed 
^^'"por^seventeen years this has been my work and during that time I have grown some of the largest 
crocf of berries yet^recorded, and since I have been propagating these plants for other.s I am assured by 
hoXultS in alll-artsof the country that they'^are now growing two hemes of high quahty where 
""^To^LuUmV^reie^^ ^^iTNwS 
but now that it is Tccomplished I shall the coming spring be able to send out astram of strictly thorough- 
Vh^fca'brfSed'for • ' kother Plants " for the propagating beds of growers or for their general 
planting'when «.e): find the^^^^^^^^ year ^^e^nd in gi^owi^^^^^^^^^^ fX^ch illustrations and other 
mattlr a's woTd ^^e'^lSilnt ftatu^efmr plli^^nd comprehensive^ It should be studied carefully 
Sr we must not forget cultural methods are factors of prime importance in fruit growing. 
Very truly yours, 
R. M. Kellogg. 
horticultural meetings, 
