BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
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Showing a fine spread of Progressive Berries in Peach time. 
Progressive are the earliest of all berries, also 
the latest, as it bears from very early summer until 
hard freezing weather. You have a combination 
of the earliest and the latest, swreetest and the 
most productive. If you have missed this every 
season don't do so again. 
Send Us a Trial Order 
Be sure and include at least a liberal supply of 
Progressive plants in your order this year. We 
have a good supply of them. Just a little of your 
spare money invested in Progressive plants will 
bring you large returns. Fifty cents or one 
dollar per quart is a very common price for them, 
as they come when other berries are gone. 
Feed These Plants 
As the Progressive bear so abundantly and their 
bearing season is so long it is up to you to furnish 
the feed which the roots need to bring forth this 
crop. The only reason that they might let up in 
bearing would be because they had absorbed all 
of the plant food. If you supply this food they 
will do the rest, therefore give them plenty of 
food. 
Sixty-five hundred orders of Progressive straw- 
berry plants were shipped by us to all parts of 
the Union during the past year; some were sent 
to sections where it is a gambling question whether 
the ordinary strawberry will bear. But the Ever- 
bearing has proved reliable everywhere; we have 
many letters to this effect. 
The New Everbearing Neverf ail 
Originated by Mr. D. J. Miller, of Ohio, and 
introduced by Mr. L. J. Farmer, in spring of 1919, 
who has an intuitive knowledge of fruit values. 
The Neverfail plant is strong, healthy and pro- 
ductive of berries of large size; dark red flesh and 
a flavor which has ."character." You will like it. 
12 plants for $3.00. 
We will give you the contents of a letter we 
just received from Mr. James 0. Pierce of Coburg, 
Oregon. 
Coburs:, Oregon, Nov. 6, 1919. 
Bridsrman Nursery Company, 
Bride:man, Mich. 
Dear Sirs : — 
Gentlemen, I have often heard of the Everbearing 
Strawberries but I never had a chance to see them grow 
until this summer, and the man had but few. I think he 
said he had 26 plants and he set them out in the shade 
of an apple tree and the berries had scant cultivation and 
very little water, and yet they had done so well and were 
so full of berries, that my wife was converted on the spot, 
and said we will commence raising that kind of berries 
in 1920. So here goes for Everbearing. I have two beds 
of early one crop berries and an empty lot 50 by 100 feet. 
How many plants will that take? What time would you 
set them out if you was doing it for yourself? We seldom 
have ice here a half inch thick. Tell me all you think 
I ought to know about raising Everbearing Strawberries. 
We have frosts as late as the 10th of May that will cut 
down string beans. What effect would such a frost as 
that have on the Everbearing Strawberry ? One more 
question and then I will wait for your answer. If the 
early frost should kill my early berries, would there still 
be lime to send and get the Everbearing plants and set 
in the same place where mine were killed? 
Answer. 50 by 100 foot lot set three foot six inch rows 
eighteen inches apart will take about 950 plants. Would 
set them out as soon as I could get them in the spring- 
time. Work them just as you would any other kind of 
strawberries. This frost would not hurt your Everbearing. 
If it killed the buds they would come right alon^; with 
another lot of blossoms, and you would get strawberries 
just the same. If the early frost killed your early berries 
you could still set and get a crop of Everbearing Straw- 
berries the same year. The Everbearing Strawberry will 
stand pretty severe frosts and still bear as the berry is 
covered much the same way a hen covers her young. They 
are partly hidden. 
Dear Sirs: Capron. 111., April 21, 1919. 
The strawberry plants arrived all O. K. They were 
vei-y nice and if I want plants next year you will 
get the order. 
Yours for farther orders. W. H. BALES. 
