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BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
Parcels Post 
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As high as 
70 pound 
s may 
be ship- 
64 
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ped in one lot to 2nd and 3rd zone and 
69 
1.34 
50 pounds to ali other zones. In addi- 
tion to postage add 1 cent for every 25 
74 
1.44 
cents 
of postage for war tax 
revenue. 
Manure 
It is a good plan to spread your manure nice 
and evenly, and go over it with a disc or com- 
mon spring drag. It will pay you to do this 
several times before you plant your field. 
Mulching 
If you live in a country where your soil heaves 
•ut the wheat, clover, and so on, in the win- 
ter time, mulch your plants with wheat straw, 
wild grass, or pine needles. Anything that will 
prevent repeated freezing and thawing during 
the winter. The best time to apply the mulch 
is when the ground is frozen so you can go on 
it with your team. M'^hen the leaves commence 
to start up in the spring rake off toward the 
center. 
Fertilizers for an Acre of Ground 
You expect and want a good crop, a fancy 
lot of berries. Don't expect to get them unless 
you help them along as much as you possibly 
can. Spread 15 to 25 loads of manure over the 
ground, disc and drag it in before plowing. Also 
bone meals, acid, phosphate, and potash up to 
250 lbs., all thoroughly scattered and worked 
into the soil. A good clover patch is nearly 
as good with the addition of some manure. But 
if neither of these may be had, any good 
garden soil will more than repay you for your 
time and trouble. Make your rows 2 % to 3 
feet apart with plants 15 to 20 inches apart. 
Set them as we tell you, firmly rn the ground, 
and then go after them with your garden tools. 
Clearwater, Kansas, 5-14-1920. 
Bridgman Nursery Co., 
Dear Sirs; — The berry plants came O. K. They 
are sure fine plants. I am well pleased with them 
and I am sorry that I did not send for more of 
them, which I would have done had I known they 
were such fine plants. 
I am askipg this question: Do you think it will 
be too late to send more plants? 
Now, if you think it is not too late, I am letting 
this to your Judgment. And If not too late send the 
following plants by express. 150 Cumberland, 100 
Kansas, 25 Mersereau Blackberries. 
A. J. MILLEfft. 
As this was the middle of May when this was 
written and the order was to go to Kansas, where 
the season is some earlier than here, we did not 
f«el safe In sending these plants, as it would be 
very late, and the chances would have been against 
a good start. 
Season 
We sometimes ship strawberry plants in 
March. The season is thoroughly open first 
of April, and then on to the end of May. 
General Culture of Strawberries 
May be summed up in a few lines: 
Soil in good condition. Good plants well set. 
Care after planting, and mulching if your 
soil heaves. 
Inspection 
Our plants are thoroughly inspected by high- 
ly qualified and authorized inspectors before 
being dug and you can rest assured you will 
receive only strictly healthy plants of the very 
best quality. 
More Strawberry plants are grown in this 
immediate vicinity than in any other section of 
the world. This seems to be nature's selection 
for strawberry plant life. They are usually 
covered with snow, which gives them the cov- 
ering of nature, and just enough cold to harden 
up and have them in fit condition to ship to any 
distant point. The plants always come out in 
the spring time in the very best condition, full 
of real active life and energy, and are immune 
to any change of climate you may subject them 
to. This is one of the reasons why they are 
prime favorites all over this country. Plants 
that are grown in a warm, sunny climate and 
are used to continual sunshine and have seen no 
winter of any kind are apt to be too tender, 
and the change from there to your locality 
might not be as sure of success as those grown 
farther north. 
Shabbona, 111., June 9th, 1920. 
Bridgman Nursery Co.. 
Dear Sirs: — I should like some extra Strawberry 
plants by mail, if you can send at this late date. 
My catalog is misplaced, so pleaae send me another, 
as I may send a fall order. 
What time do you send out Red Raspberries tor 
fall planting. Please send me 100 Senator Dunlap, 
100 Gibson, 50 Progressive, for which I enclose a 
personal check. As I don't recall prices I shall 
guess at prices and you can remit difference, or If 
not enough I will send more. The other order came 
through In fine shape. Very truly, 
EDITH SAWYER. 
This order Is also too late for Illinois. 
Friendly, West Virginia, 4-2-20. 
Gentlemen: — Enclosed please find money order 
for 250 Progressive rTverybearIng Strawberry Plants, 
to my address. Friendly. W. V., on the B. & O. 
R. R. These plants are for two of my neighbors. 
The plants I ordered from your firm last year were 
just fine. Have a fine bed this year. 
ROBT. V. McCOY 
