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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Everbearing Strawberries 
Everbearing strawberries arc increasing in popu- 
larity at home and in the market. At this time, 
nearly the end of October, the plants are loaded 
with blossoms and ripe and green berries. They 
will continue to bear until winter comes. The 
berries are large, good flavor and in great abun- 
dance. You would hardly believe that a plant set 
in the springtime would be able to bring forth 
such a lot of fine fruit, in but a few weeks after 
setting them out, and continue to do so until the 
ground is frozen hard. We have often picked ber- 
ries a month after ice was an inch thick. On good 
ground well fertilized the results will be amazing. 
Such great amounts of fruit from newly set plants 
will surely astonish you and your friends. 
You should not expect these plants to bring you 
grand results on poor soil, for they can not draw 
all of their needs out of the air. Put something 
where the roots can find it, something to work on 
and live on; material for a surplus, and the foliage 
and roots will soon draw to the surface a profusion 
of radiance and splendor satisfying to the most ex- 
acting person. 
Setting Out the Everbearing 
Strawberry Plant 
After your soil has been put in best possible 
condition your surroundings will permit, then 
mark off your ground as follows: J'or field cul- 
ture, 12 to 36 inch rows; for hill culture, 15 inches 
apart. Make the hole with a spade just a little 
deeper than you need it. Pu'. your plant in place, 
firm on both sides well, and they will grow. 
The Plants to Buy 
If you buy your Everbearing plants of nurseries 
that make them a specialty you will be certain of 
success. 
Another Reminder of the Good Qualities 
of Our Everbearing Strawberry 
When the garden is dried up, the peas gone, 
lettuce, radishes, string beans and all those other 
favorites, the raspberries, blackberries, gooseber- 
ries, currants, all gone, and nothing in sight, just 
think what a treat it is to go out in the garden 
and pick a pailful of nice, luscious strawberries, 
fresh and plump. No more worry as to what you 
are going to have for dinner, supper or breakfast. 
Set them out in the spring time and you will 
have those things that go to make life pleasant 
and agreeable. If you don't have strawberries 
all summer is it your own fault. They will grow 
and thrive anywhere, north or south, east or west, 
wet or dry, high or low, clay or sand, anywhere 
any garden truck will grow, there the Everbearing 
Strawberry will grow. Hot weather seems to have 
no terrors for them, and cold is the same. When 
you can pick them Fourth of July, Thanksgiving 
or Christmas, you must admit that is enough. If 
you want to have these berries all you have to do 
is get our kind and set them out. Keep them 
clean and you will have an abundant reward. If 
your neighbor tells you that they won't bear, don't 
believe his story. If he has tried them, ask him 
where he got his plants and how much he paid for 
them. He will not tell you that he got them of 
the Bridgman Nursery Co. 
This is the way a great many have tested the 
Everbearing Strawberry: They have answered 
an advertisement which gave plants away. They 
paid nothing and got the same. Some unscru- 
pulous fellows have given away plants that never 
were any good and never will be. 
Now, the genuine Everbearing plants that give 
results have not been a drug on the market, and 
the demand for them has been greater than the 
supply, and few people give them away. 
Our plants have been grown with special bear- 
ing qualities, are healthy and strong, and will 
give you the best of satisfaction. 
An Everbearing Bed 
Should be renewed each year, as they bear such 
enormous crops of berries and make but few 
plants. 
We were suspicious as to the permanent value 
of the everbearing strawberry as a money crop. 
"When you have shorn your sheep and got its 
wool that's the end of it." But the everbearing is 
different. You can pick it, for four months in 
succession the first season after you have planted 
it, and the prices for berries are always double 
or more per quart. One acre, well kept, will make 
easily $25.00 per week during July, August, Sep- 
tember, and October, and sometimes the whole of 
November. Then the following year they will be 
the very first to ripen, and bear from the latter 
part of May until winter time. 
Cut Off All Runners 
In growing Everbearing Strawberries you will 
have but fair success if you try to grow berries 
and runners from the same plant. Keep them 
clipped off, let the strength all go to the new vine 
or plant set this spring, which will then grow to 
immense size, and soon your time will be pleasant- 
ly and profitably occupied picking berries such as 
you never dreamed of, and amounts that will surely 
surprise you. 
Progressive or Superb 
There are but two kinds that have been success- 
ful with us. Progressive and Superb, and they seem 
to alternate with the seasons. One season Pro- 
gressive seems best, next Superb seems best, and 
have a slight lead. Both are good and each fill 
their place. 
How Many to Set for a Family of 
Five and Company 
Twelve rows 100 feet long, set 15 inches apart, 
will take about 1,000 plants. These need not be 
over 15 inches apart if you keep off all new run- 
ners. If your soil is good you will get enough for 
yourself, your company, your friends, and some for 
sale. We have seen hills that seemed to have done 
a little better than the rest that looked as if they 
would yield from four to six quarts. We have 
picked everbearing berries that would weigh over 
an ounce apiece, from plants that were set in the 
spring time of the same year, in April or May, and 
you would be getting berries in June, July, August, 
September, October, and often in November. 
Planting Everbearing Strawberry plants is just 
like planting Potatoes, Cabbages, or any garden 
crop you expect to harvest in the same fall. 
You cannot grow berries and plants from the 
same vine and have the best of success. If you 
grow plants you will not get much fruit. It will 
be one or the other. 
We have helped a great many to start in the 
fruit growing business. 
Why not you? 
