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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY. BRIDGMAN. MICHIGAN 
Set them on a good piece of land. An acre of 
Strawberries is worth from 5 to 20 acres of corn 
any time. Your berries will be nicer, larger and 
better if set on your best ground. You will have 
the buyers lined up for future sales. Give your 
berries good clean cultivation and do not let 
them mat too much, for matting will cause your 
berries to be small. 
New Varieties 
We always have new varieties in our test 
beds. If they prove of value, we offer them to 
our trade. 
SENATOR DUNIiAP does well in most lo- 
calities, is a fine table and canning berry, a 
good shipper and excellent cropper. Don't 
let them get too thick in the rows. 
THE FAMOUS WARPIELD— Bred up by 
careful selection, is again coming to the front. 
Warfleld should be set on good strong soil, 
clay if you have it. We were sold out early 
on them last year, and anticipating a still 
greater call for them this year we have doubled 
our acreage. The Warfield of today is much 
better than ever: it has three great qualities: 
first, resistance to spring frosts; 2d, great pro- 
ductiveness: 3rd. very dark crimson color, 
making it the choice above all others for can- 
ning and table use. While these two berries 
are among the best, yet you could take anv 
variety we offer and succeed with them. 
116,000 the 12th of March, 1915. 
On the 12th of March, this year, we dug 
116,000 Strawberry plants. This was uncom- 
monly early. 
In the Great Fruit Belt of Michigan. 
We are situated in the Great Fruit Belt of 
Michigan, and our Strawberry Plants are cov- 
ered with snow, which gives them the best and 
most natural protection — you can dig through 
it and find the Strawberry Plant "snug and 
cozy;" it is not exposed to the cold winds of 
the plains, which are apt to freeze the heart 
and life out of them, and this accounts for the 
fact that we are ahead of the whole plant-grow- 
ing world here at Bridgman. 
Unpack the Plants When They Reach You. 
We would call your attention to the ship- 
ment when il reaches you. We have done our 
part, we have taken great care to get it to you 
in prime condition, and we wish to impress 
upon you this point. Liberate them as soon as 
you can, get them out of the package they came 
in, cut open the bunches and set them out in 
a trench of moist, loose soil, about as deep or 
a little deeper than you would if you were 
planting them permanently. They may touch 
each other in this trench; make an opening 
large enough to take the roots, place your 
plants in it, get the soil up against the roots 
and firm them on each side of the row, leaving 
no air spaces. Should the plants be dry. 
take each bunch and dip the roots in water, 
drain off a little so they won't be mussy, aind 
set in the trench. Do not wait till tomorrow 
nor after dinner, but now. They can be left 
in this trench a long while and still will be 
in best condition for setting out. You will be 
surprised how nice they will straighten up In 
24 hours. If anything is wrong you will know 
next morning. 
Get Your Plants from Bridgman Nursery Co. 
Strawberry Plant culture is one of our strong 
points. We have entirely new fields to take 
our plants from every spring. We ship no 
plants from fields that have been fruited. Con- 
ditions along the lake shore are always favor- 
able, and the plant is able to mature in every 
detail to its utmost perfection. A strawberry 
failure is unknown here. We will guarantee 
that our plants have not been impaired by 
being repeatedly frozen down to the ground. 
We ship many plants to sections where the 
-snows of winter afford no protection from 
blizzards and zero weather. One word about 
the thermometer. When we have 5 degrees 
below zero here, ten miles east of us it is 10 
degrees below; the closeness of the lake makes 
the difference. We can successfully raise any 
kind of peaches here, and while we are talking 
Peach, let me tell you we had the greatest 
crop of peaches this yeiar ever known. This 
is the Ideal Country for Fruit. 
The Lake Tempers Our Air. 
Hoin" fiO miles wide here, it seldom freezes 
out more than a few miles, leaving a large body 
of open water which absorbs the cold, and 
severe winter winds are tempered many de- 
grees in passing over it. 
It is a cosy little village of 
a few hundred inhabitants, 
nestled snugly behind the 
hills that skirt Lake Michi- 
gan. These hills, which are 
sand and have timber growth 
on them now. were at one 
time heavily timbered, and 
they extend along the lake for 
many miles. The highest are 
perhaps 300 feet high. This 
hill land is simply a wild, un- 
inhabited piece of land ex- 
cept in summer time, when 
the weather gets warm; then 
the people come many miles 
and live in camps and some 
in cottages just large enough 
to cook and sleep in; no 
fancy China is set on the ta- 
bles, tin is the article. If 
we could see across the lake, 
which is about 60 miles wide 
here and over 300 miles long, 
we could see Chicago, which 
is 77 miles by rail around the 
southern part of the lake, 
and the Indiana line is about 
15 miles from here. 
A Few Remarks About Bridgman 
CHICAGO 
(SAINT 
JOSEPH 
^» Bridgman 
The lalte has one continu- 
ous bathing beach. A gentle 
slope lets you go in the water 
as deep or shallow as you 
wish, the bottom is sand and 
gravel, no weeds nor entan- 
glements. It becomes very 
rough at times and you can 
hear the lake roar where we 
live, two miles from shore. 
Sometimes you would not 
know there was a storm, for 
its violence has been broken 
by the line of hills. It blows 
sometimes here, but not 
much. After you leave the 
line of the hills that skirt the 
lake, you come to the nice 
sandy, loamy soil on which 
your plants are grown. It is 
the very best for that pur- 
pose; the roots grow long 
and fibrous and never fail 
here. Nobody needs to mulch 
a strawberry bed here. As 
soon as the frost is out of the 
ground we are ready to dig. 
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