BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 5 
Berry Growing is Profitable 
What Some of Our Customers Say Who Have Set Our Plants 
would have had a larger crop had the previous year 
been more favorable for plant growth. 
From Wisconsin. 
A Clergyman writes us that he made over $500.00 
from % acre of our Cuthbert plants which had been 
set the year previous and were well taken care of. 
The soil was of a good sandy loam well drained 
and he writes us that he sold the berries at the 
moderate price of 30 cents per quart. Had he 
asked full market price he would have had much 
more money for his crop. 
From Michigan. 
This letter is from a gentleman who works in 
an automobile factory and lives near one of our 
thriving auto cities. He had 6 rows of Blackberries 
that were 20 rods long on the crest of a low clay 
hill. During the early summer he worked in an 
automobile factory and not being able to get help, 
neither hoed nor cultivated them. In spite of this 
double handicap of a dry season and lack of culti- 
vation, he picked and sold $248.00 worth of fruit 
besides furnishing two families from these rows 
at 25 cents per quart. 
We quote you but a few of the many letters we 
received during the year telling us of the splendid 
success our patrons have setting our well grown, 
true to name, Superb Strain Plants. Just a little 
care given them when they need it will insure you 
splendid results. 
A Few Words About the Coming Season 
You will notice that every catalog that you get this year will tell you about the shortage 
of nursery stock, and for you to be sure and send your order early if you wish to get stock 
in their line as the supply of same is very light. We say to you that we know the crop of 
nursery stock is very small — the demand also is greatei', so do not delay. 
We also advise ordering early in the small fruit plant line (which is our specialty). We say 
frankly and in all confidence to you, that we have an increase stock of our high grade plants 
this year, much larger and better than ever before. We can supply you to the limit with 
the very best, well rooted and healthy plants, with plants we are sure will please you. Our 
thorough and practical methods of cultivation enables us to offer the finest and largest lot of 
high grade plants. 
We think we have enough to go around and perhaps a few to spare, but believe you should 
let lis know as soon as you can what you wish to set. 
WARNING. Order early and enough as the outlook for prices was never better. 
From Tennessee. 
Mr. Porter, a jeweler in a small town in Ten- 
nessee, writes this letter. "I had a piece of land, 
3/7 of an acre that I wished to try out on Straw- 
berries. I sent you an order for 4,000 plants all 
told and the following year I picked and sold 249 
24-quart cases of the very finest Strawberries 
I ever saw of which I sold 218 cases at $5.00 per 
case; 24 crates at $6.00; 7 crates at $7.00. The 
total amount of cash received was $1,283.00. Be- 
sides this we canned three crates and gave away 
four crates, and ate all we could for the entire 
strawberry season. The above figures are accurate 
and can be easily verified. I am a Jeweler and did 
all of the work raising the crop, after six o'clock 
in the evening during the summer of 1918. Local 
demand took them all. My expense for crates 
was small, as I could use them several times." 
We see no reason why Mr. Porter should write 
anything but the real facts. This is at the rate 
of $3,000 per acre and shows you what good plants 
well taken care of will do. 
From Ohio. 
A woman well along in years writes us that she 
set four city lots with our true to name strawberry 
plants back of her home, and they had brought her 
$240.00. She sold them readily at 25 cents per 
quart. She hoed and took care of them herself and 
