BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
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ing plants in it; this year the percentage will 
be greater. Last year the price of Everbearing 
Strawberries doubled as the season drew to a 
close. Price was an after consideration. We 
firmly believe that Superb will be as common 
as Dunlap now is, or Aroma in the South. It 
is well to know from your own experience what 
they will do. We sent a sample of Superb 
berry plant with fruit on it to a large Des 
Moines Nursery firm, and this is what they 
say: "It is the finest lot of berry plants by 
all odds that ever passed through this office." 
FROM INDIANA. 
Dear Sir; Balance of Strawberry plants received. 
Everything all right. B. W. HARES. 
FROM OHIO. 
Bridgman NursGi*y Company. 
Dear Sii*s : My shipment of Strawberry plants received. 
Plants in good shape and extra fine. 
Yours respectfully, W. A. HESTER. 
FROM OHIO. 
Bridgman Nursery Company. 
Dear Sirs : I wish to let you know something about the 
Everbearing Strawberry plants I got of you. They did 
fine, and I watched them closely ; took particular pains 
to count the buds, blossoms and berries on one plant ; the 
first time there were 114 buds, berries and all. The next 
time I counted it, there were 13 ripe, 45 green and 60 
blossoms, and in about one week later there were 20 ripe, 
35 green and 55 blossoms. I believe I picked 2 quarts 
from this one plant. I have been selling berries right 
along for 20 cents per quart. I want some more plants 
in the spring. Yours truly, 
FRANK WINT. 
Here is one which we will give you entire 
all but the exact postoffice, which we will 
give you if you forward postage. 
Nebraska, October 19, 1916. 
Dear Sirs: .1 bought of you a large order of Raspber- 
ries, Blackberries, Currants, Grapes and Strawberries, 
and 1 take this means of letting you know that every- 
thing arrived in fine shape, and all have made the 
finest growth that I ever saw. From the 1,000 Ever- 
bearing Strawberry plants we have picked better than 
40 gallons since August 1st, and I never saw nor ate 
finer berries. Everybody here that sees them just goes 
wild over them. I am surely well pleased with my deal- 
ing with you. Yours truly, 
J. A. WOODWORTH. 
To save Mr. Woodworth the trouble of an- 
swering: letters and usually furnishing his own 
postage, we omit his exact postoffice address. 
You can see by the above letter what success 
Mr. Woodworth has with our plants. The 
1,000 plants cost him $13.00, and he sold better 
than 40 gallons of beriies from August 1 to 
September 19. What he sold before and since 
would amount to 40 more, 80 gallons from 
1,000 plants in five months time after planting. 
He certainly could easily sell his product for 
25 cents per quart — that would mean ?80.00, 
-six times the money he paid for his plants. 
He will do still better on them next year. 
Rockhill Progressive. 
As one of the very best Everbearing Straw- 
berries — in fact the very best first season, it 
bears such an abundant amount of berries 
that hey are inclined to be a little under- 
sized, and seem to exhaust themselves the first 
season; the second year plainly showing the 
strain it had the first year. Plants are at a 
stand still, not doing as well as you might 
wish. The berries are of fine color and flavor 
and fairly firm, and yield big crops just a few 
months after planting, and continue until real 
cold weather comes. We shipped our last 
crate November 15. There are still berries at 
this writing, November 27. The weather is so 
cool now, no sunshine, and the flavor is not 
there, so we just leave them where they grew. 
The Rockhill is not a very good plant maker, 
being too busy growing fruit. Our stock of 
plants is large, and early orders will have the 
best chance. Both Superb and Rockhill are 
staminate and need no fertilizer, each will 
grow and bear without assistance from other 
varieties. They will grow anywhere and bear 
fruit. Should frost, drought or flood kill a 
crop of blossoms, another will come and bring 
you the promised harvest of rich, luscious ber- 
ries during the whole season. 
I can't hardly imagine what is going to hap- 
pen to all tree fruits, bush fruits, etc., when 
once everybody will have Everbearing Straw- 
berries. You will need to can but half as 
many, for you will have them from May until 
December, if not too cold. Like the automo- 
bile, we believe it has come to stay. There is 
no secret about raising the Everbearing Straw- 
berry. 
Thi.^ IS a |,ir(ure of I'all lUiuinp: Strawberries photogmphed on our farm about the middle of Oetober, 1914, 
after a fall of about three inches of snow. There had been severe frosts before the snow storm. We took the picture 
just to show you that these plants bear and keep bearing till actually killed down by hard freezing weather. The 
blossoms on th" plar.ts at the time this picture was taken were not injured, and we have picked quite a lot of 
berries since then. They will bear as big a crop next June as any kind of June bearing Strawberries, and if the 
soil is kept in good condition, they will bear from then until freezing weather. 
