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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Strawberries and Their Care 
One of our Everbearingr Propasrating Beds. 
Plant culture is one of our strong points. We 
have entirely new fields to take our plants from 
every spring. We ship none from fields that have 
been fruited. Conditions along the lake shore are 
always favorable, and the plant is able to mature 
in every detail to its utmost perfection. Failure 
is unknown here. 
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 crown will be covered should 
the wind blow or the rain come. 
Shallow Marks 
Make your marks as shallow as you can and set 
your plant even with the ground, step firmly on 
each side of the plant. If you can pull out a plant 
by a leaf, it is not firmed enough. They should be 
in the ground solid enough so the leaf would tear 
or break rather than let the plant come out. 
Watch this. 
Rainy Days are Not Necessary 
Rainy days are not the best. It is not at all 
necessary that you wait for rain before setting. 
You are apt to get careless when everything is in 
best condition. Painstaking setting pays. Risk 
planting when moderately dry. Would rather risk 
getting a little shower after planting than risk 
drying out after a rain. 
Just Try It 
Anyone with a little care can raise Strawberries 
where any farm crdp will grow. Strawberries 
will grow; if the ground is too dry, you won't have 
as good show as you might have if it were a little 
too wet; they will stand more rain and water than 
potatoes will; will come through all right if en- 
tirely 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 stpvs on it more 
than 48 to 60 hours, your plants w.l' 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 cultivating 
every ten days or two weeks. Keep them clean and 
well hoed. The buds should be picked off the 
newly set plants, if you don't they will start to 
bear the berries that are set on them, and this 
will sap its vitality and take its force and strength 
to form the berry in place of making new runners. 
Your patriotic duty demands that you grow 
your own berries, or as much of them as possible. 
Every little bit will help relieve the demand upon 
labor which is required for other lines of work. 
The raising of berries, especially strawberries, 
requires very little thought and care, and the 
pleasure of walking out into your own berry patch 
and gathering the luscious fruit more than repays 
you for your efforts. Especially do the Everbearing 
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 rod jewels hanging on the 
bushes, plants that had been planted but a few 
months ago, some of the bushes containing 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 grrower 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 that we are ahead of the whole plant 
growing world. 
Twice the numbers of cases of strawberries are 
now grown on an acre from our plants than for- 
