From photograph of a field of Progrcsalvc taken on oqr fai-m October 23rd. 1919. 
PROGRESSIVE 
The Best of the Everbearing Strawberries 
These strawberry plants have been selected and 
grown by us after many years of study and care, 
and they are truly Everbearing. In every sense 
of the word. With this new berry which we offer 
to you as the Bridgman Nursery's best we have 
produced a berry that is so full of life that it is 
needless to pinch off the buds which come on them 
during the summer, which process has been for- 
merly practiced to retarj their bearing during the 
summer. We now have a variety that we guarantee 
will produce ripe berries in eight weel<s after 
setting them out and a continuous crop from then 
until actual winter has set in. If you have no 
winter you will continue to get berries, nice ones, 
red, rich and juicy, sweet and aromatic, and lots 
of them. The original plants set in April or May 
will have often times more than one hundred ber- 
ries to a plant at one time, having ripe berries, 
green berries and blossoms all on the plant at the 
1 same time. 
The Progressive is a wonderful fall-bearing 
strawberry and considered the best by many grow- 
ers. The spring-set plants not only produce a 
big crop of berries the same season, but the runner 
plants commence to bear fruit as soon as set, and 
quite often you will find a runner plant full of 
^blossoms and berries before it has made any roots, 
and in this way Progressive yields a crop of fruit 
the first year that is truly wonderful. 
Two Quarts of Progessive Per Hill 
If you wish to keep vour berries in hill culture, 
give them good care and see that they need for 
nothing in the line of plant health (or food). You 
will get the above amount from most of the hills. 
For the Home Garden 
The Progressive strawberry is as essential as 
anything that you plant in your garden. You 
will have more real enjoyment out of a bed of these 
Jserries than out of any one thing you can grow. 
Progressive Plants as Presents 
If you have a friend somewhere that has a lot, 
an acre or more, you can make him happy and be 
remembered longer if you will have us send them 
a liberal supply of Everbearing plants as well as 
other kinds. We often do this for quite a lot of 
our customers. These plants go to a brother, a 
sister, an aunt, father, mother, and so on. You 
can think this over for yourself, how much you 
would appreciate a present of this kind were it 
given to you. You could send to some brother or 
sister enough for an acre or so and start them in a 
business which nine times out of ten will show 
them conclusively that there is a whole lot of easy 
money in growing strawberries. Why not do this 
now ? 
You would naturally think by these plants bear- 
ing constantly they would produce small berries, 
but not so. They are as large as all commercial 
strawberries. Are of the finest flavor, of splendid 
color, and the sweetest by far of any strawberry 
grown. You would hardly believe this until you 
saw it yourself. No frost can spoil your crop. 
You are absolutely sure to get berries If you get 
our Progressive plants. 
At our home they like the Everbearing so well 
that they wait for them to put away for winter. 
They are so very sweet that but little sugar is 
needed. The color is a dark crimson, and one of 
the richest and best looking of all the straw- 
berries you can put up. The plants are free from 
all defects, is a good plant maker, and a miracle 
in strawberry life. 
Progressive strawberries will eventually be in 
everybody's garden. You will not need to wait 
until next year to get a full crop, but you will get 
it the first year you plant, and a still larger crop 
the next year. 
