BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
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One of Our Progreeslve ETCrbearing Frupoguting: Beds. 
Strawberries and Their Care 
Planting 
There are but few tools 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 the holes and carry the 
plants and some one to set them in the ground. 
We take a good spade, well sharpened, and 
make the hole 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. 
Anyone with a little care can raise Strawber- 
ries Avlicre any farm crop will grovr. Strawber- 
ries will grow; will stand more rain and water 
than potatoes; will come through all right if 
entirely 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 in a 
field, and if your water never stays on it more 
than 48 to 60 hours, your plants will 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 carefully. Keep up this 
hoeing and cultivating every ten days or two 
weeks. Keep them clean. 
The Everbearers 
Especially do the Everbearing berries appeal 
to the grower. After 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 red jewels hanging on the 
bushes, plants that had been planted but a few 
nion(hs 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 grower of berries. 
Write us if you are at all skeptical about the 
successful raising of this fruit. 
The Great Michigan Fruit Belt 
We are situated in the great Fruit Belt of 
Michigan, 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. 
Unpack the Plants When They 
Reach You 
We wish to impress upon you this point, 
l/ibcrate them as soon as you can, get them out 
of the package they came in. cut open the 
l)unches 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 perma- 
nently. 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, and set in the trench. Do not wait 
until tomorrow, nor after dinner, but now. They 
can be left in this trench a long while and still 
be in condition Jfor setting out. You will be 
surprised how nice they will straighten up in 
24 hours. If anything is wrong you will know 
it the next morning. 
Do Not Fail to Include Dr. Burrill and Gibson in 
Your Order — They Are Both Big Money Makers 
