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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Growing Strawberry Plants 
We firmly believe that the very best plants 
grown in the world are grown here. While the 
strawberry plant is but a very small item and 
doesn't cut much figure, but like "little grains of 
sand," they make a great showing when you come 
to realize that from the thriving village of Bridg- 
man two solid carloads of strawberry plants are 
shipped out every day. Thousands of people dur- 
ing the six weeks of April and May are doing 
nothing else but getting out plants only which go 
to every state in the Union and all the nearby for- 
eign countries. At this writing we have orders 
from one little Iowa town of 6,000 inhabitants 
for over one-half million plants for spring deliv- 
ery. Now, why this great call for plants? 
A Few of the Reasons 
First: It is our life study and hobby. 
Second: Our soil and climate are of the very 
best. The moisture is just right. We are just two 
miles from Lake Michigan, and it never freezes 
over. Frosts are light. Today, the 16th of October, 
sweet corn, squashes, tomatoes and all garden 
truck is as green and fresh as in full summer time. 
No frost. The sun is shining, the bees flying, and 
as I look across the strawberry field a mirror-like 
appearance comes over them. They are growing, 
making root and getting ready for winter. We 
never mulch here, as the soil is perfect. No plant 
ever comes out of the ground of its own accord 
or by heaving. 
An acre of small fruits will provide you with a 
whole lot of money — easy, pleasant and agreeable 
work. Fill the larder with fruits. 
Follow Our Advice — Grow More Fruit 
One party that drove up to our packing house 
one year ago and bought an auto load of plants, 
has been selling as high as $900.00 worth of straw- 
berries every day during the present season. It 
doesn't take long at that rate to get a good start 
in life. Buy good plants and take care of them. 
Our Standard varieties are strong and healthy, will 
grow many times the fruit than plants taken 
from old fields. It always pays to buy the best — it 
is the cheapest. 
If you have but a small piece of land or can rent 
one, it will be to your advantage to set out some 
everbearing strawberries, even in a war garden, 
because your berries will bear before your toma- 
toes, your cucumbers, and a long time before your 
sweet corn, and just as soon as your earliest peas 
or beans. It makes the garden a place of joy. 
The Bridgman Nursery's Special Progressive Ev- 
erbearing Strawberry fills a want that no other 
berry ever did or ever will. With this berry set 
in your garden, in a liberal amount, you will, dur- 
ing the entire season, enjoy fresh, luscious, sweet 
and fragrant strawberries. They are so sweet 
that you can eat your fill with the greatest relish 
without any sugar. A trifle of sugar makes them 
sweet enough for the most exacting. Strawberry 
shortcake is just as good without the least bit of 
sugar, and the Everbearing put up as jam and 
preserves has no equal in the strawberry line. Its 
beautiful, rich color, flavor and aroma, make it 
one of the most tempting dishes you can put on the 
table. Hot biscuits and strawberry jam or pan- 
cakes and jam fill the whole bill. No need of but- 
ter, honey, or anything else — the jam does the 
work. The warm sun and dry weather of summer 
have produced a sweeter and more delicious berry, 
and thousands of people are learning this every 
day. We firmly believe that to introduce the berry 
to every tiller of the least bit of soil, a demon- 
stration should be made by the Government. It 
would cut the fruit bill of the nation considerably 
and would do away with transporting berries to 
distant markets. As this berry is immune to frosts 
and droughts, it will bear even should you have 
frost 12 months in the year. The nature of the 
plant covers the bloom and berry, protecting it 
from heat and cold. It is like the Liberty Bond — 
helps you and everyone else. 
As is well known to most all berry growers, a 
mingling of the sexes is as necessary in straw- 
berry culture as in any branch of horticulture. 
We will see to it that you get the right kinds that 
are suited to each other. Getting started right is 
half of the battle. Use a little thought in your 
preparedness and you will make rapid advance. 
$50.00 spent for the right kind of fruit plants will 
make $1,000 or more easily. 
From the Chicago Journal: 
The Home Fruit Garden 
The city and suburban vegetable garden has 
come to stay. It makes for health, economy, and 
a satisfied palate. But why stop with a vegetable 
garden? Why not include fruit? 
A good many thousand householders are asking 
themselves this question, and answering it, after 
a consultation with the catalogues. As yet, most 
answers take the form of small fruits. Straw- 
berries can be raised practically everywhere, and 
will give a fair crop to the veriest amateur who 
employs good soil and moderately good sense; 
also, one gets quick action from them, and that is 
a prime consideration just now. Raspberries and 
blackberries take more time and thought, but one 
or the other of them docs well in almost every part 
of the United States, and more delicious fruit 
never was raised. Grapes are about equally ac- 
commodating. Currants and gooseberries seem to 
have more enemies than most other fruits, but 
one need not despair of them if he is willing to 
spray as well as plant and prune. 
The tree fruits will come into use more slowly, 
but there is no reason to doubt that they will come. 
That unwholesome overspecialization which has 
been the bane of American life is as marked in the 
production of these fruits as anywhere else, and 
the opportunity for home production is almost as 
great. It requires more permanence of tenure, 
but perhaps less in the way of skilled attention; 
and aside from economy and the sentimental value 
of raising as much as possible of your own living. 
Of course, we can not bring the home production 
of fruit (,o its proper proportions until we elimi- 
nate or greatly minimize the annual trek of May 
day. Aside from the moving van and storage 
people, however, there are few who will regret the 
passing of that expensive national institution. 
More home owners, more home gardens, more per- 
manence and sound taste in every relation of life 
would be a fine prescription for our restless land. 
The Bridgman Nursery Co. is continually trying 
to produce something better than heretofore. Our 
stock of plants this year we believe will vindicate 
the assertion. 
Send Your Orders as Early as You Can 
As it helps all around we can gauge our busi- 
ness, get everything ready. "Be Prepared, you 
know." The word preparedness becomes almost 
of daily use since we have learned its worth, 
many failures, business and others, would not 
have occurred had it been observed. So we say 
be prepared, get plenty of plants, and take good 
care of them and success is sure to be yours. 
