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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
One of our Progressive Everbearing Propagating Beds. 
Strawberries and Their Care 
Planting 
There are but few things necessary. A spade, a 
pail, any light drag or marker, or chain, and a 
cultivator; this is all that is necessary after it has 
been plowed, dragged and rolled or floated to get 
it nice and level so you can see the marks; then 
some one to make holes and carry the plants and 
some one to set them in the ground. We take a 
good spade, well sharpened, and make the holes 
just a little deeper than the roots of the plants 
require. Set it just about as it grew. Setting too 
deep means that your cro\vn will be covered should 
the wind blow or the rain come. 
Just Try It 
Anyone with a little care can raise Strawberries 
where any farm crop will grow. Strawberries will 
grow; will stand more rain and water than po- 
tatoes; will come through all right if entirely 
covered with water for a few days. We don't 
advise setting where this is liable to happen, but 
sometimes there is a low spot of small dimensions 
in a field, and if your water never stays on it more 
than 48 to 60 hours, your plants will come out all 
right. Strawberries will stand more water than 
Raspberries or Blackberries. As soon as you can, 
go over them with a cultivator, then hoe them in 
the row where the cultivator did not get; hoe 
close and careful. Keep up this hoeing and culti- 
vating every ten days or two weeks. Keep them 
clean. 
Your patriotic duty demands that you grow your 
own berries, or as much of them as possible. Every 
little bit will helji relieve the demand upon labor 
which is required for other lines of work. The 
raising of berries, especially strawberries, re- 
quires very little thought and care, and the 
pleasure of walking out into your own berry patch 
and gathering the liiscious fruit more than repays 
you for your efforts. Especially do the Everbear- 
ing berries appeal to the grower. After the wind- 
up of the vegetable garden, even after the first 
frosts of fall have arrived, one may saunter out 
into his patch and gaze upon the red jewels hang- 
ing on the bushes, plants that had been planted 
but a few months ago, some of the bushes con- 
taining as many as a hundred blossoms. You 
wonder why you never became interested in the 
growing of berries before, and you are at last 
listed as one more enthusiastic grower of berries. 
Write us if you are at all skeptical about the 
successful raising of this fruit. 
In the Great Fruit Belt of Michigan 
We are situated in the great Fruit Belt of Mich- 
igan, and our Strawberry Plants are not exposed 
to the cold winds of the plains, which are apt to 
freeze the heart and life out of them; this accounts 
for the fact thatTve are ahead of the whole plant 
growing world. 
Unpack the Plants When They 
Reach You 
We wish to impress upon you this point. Liber- 
ate them as soon as you can, get them out of the 
package they came in, cut open the bunches and 
set them out in a trench of moist, loose soil, about 
as deep or a little deeper than you would if you 
were planting them permanently. They may touch 
each other in this trench; make an opening large 
enough to take the roots, place your plants in it, 
get the soil up against the roots and firm them 
on each side of the row, leaving no air spaces. 
Should the plants be dry, take each bunch and dip 
the roots in water, drain off a little so they won't 
be mussy, and set in the trench. Do not wait until 
tomorrow, nor after dinner, but now. They can be 
left in this trench a long while and still be in 
condition for setting out. You will be surprised 
how nice they will straighten up in 24 hours. If 
anything is wrong you will know it next morning. 
Do Not Fail to Include Dr. Burrill and Gibson in 
Your Order— They Are Both Big Money Makers 
