BRIDGMAN NURSERY COMPANY, BRIDGMAN, MICHIGAN 
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The life of a fruit grower and 
hia surroundings are most 
pleasing; not as binding as 
dairying, which needs loolcing 
after almost every minute of 
the day. Stock and grain rais- 
ing is about the same. Your 
fruit comes and goes in a short 
time, always ready cash, no 
trade or barter. 
One Reason Our Plants Are 
Sold So Cheap. 
We own our farm, the soil 
of which is ideally perfect for 
the growing of THE VERY 
BEST PLANTS. Our office 
force consists of the home fam- 
ily as much as possible. We 
announce to you in the papers 
with as little space as we think 
we can attract your attention. 
Never use a whole page to tell 
you when we think a smaller 
space will do the same thing, 
and we use papers of national 
repute only, whose representa- 
tives come here and look over 
our fields, pick, taste, and take 
home samples of our ever- 
bearing berries to their mothers and sweet- 
hearts. Personal representatives from Farm 
& Home, Orange Judd Farmer, Farm Journal, 
American Agriculturist, Successful Farming, 
Country Gentleman, and others are regular 
visitors at our home and farm every year. 
They usually come in the fall about hog kill- 
ing time, when spare ribs and strawberries 
make a nice combination, and we always have 
a very pleasant time with them, and they con- 
tinually urge us to use more space and let the 
public know what wonderful success our Ever- 
bearing Strawberries are. We would be justi- 
fied in using whole pages of all the leading 
papers to let everybody know, but that costs 
lots of money and we rely upon you to let your 
neighbor know. 
Advertising. 
We try to save as much of this as we pos- 
sibly can, and give it to you in plants and ex- 
CMICAGO 
pect you to do our advertising — 
you who know and have seen 
the wonderful results you have 
had with them. 
We sometimes get letters 
telling us they have bought of 
this and that Nursery and wish 
to try ours. Now right on the 
face of this inquiry you can 
see that they were not satisfied 
with their previous purchases. 
We would say this to you If 
you have bought plants year in 
and out from some nursery that 
has given entire satisfaction in 
every way. Quality, price and 
all do not change because we 
can do no more than satisfy 
you, which has been our con- 
tinuous aim since we have been 
in business. 
Just a Little Digression. 
We have a customer in a 
small Indiana town who buys 
heavily and repeatedly. One 
of our competitors, thinking he 
would like the customer, made 
a personal appeal to him, stat- 
ing that the goods he would 
furnish would be just as good, grown in the 
same locality and would save him some money. 
After making the bid, and being turned down, 
the competitor was frank enough to tell us that 
we were awfully strong with that Indiana party 
for he told him that he knew Stahelin's Plants 
were good, that he was satisfied and would buy 
of him as long as he or Stahelin lived. That's 
going some. I have no chance there he said. 
Send Your Orders as Early as You Can. 
As it helps all around we can gauge our busi- 
ness, get everything ready. "Be Prepared Tou 
Know." The word preparedness becomes al- 
most of daily use since we have learned its 
worth, many failures, business and others, 
would not have occurred had it been observed. 
So we say be prepared, get plenty of plants, 
and take good care of them and success is sure 
to be yours. 
SAINT 
JOSEPH 
Home of the 
Bridi^man 
Nursery Co, 
We would be very much pleased if our customers who have good straw- 
berry plantings, with good surroundings, etc., would send us pictures of their 
strawberry fields. If the owner of the patch, and his family, appear in the 
picture, so much the better. 
We should venture to say that more Strawberries are grown in this inunediate vicinity 
than In any other section of the world. There is not one acre in 100 that gets any mulch- 
ing, and that would he from some one who has not lived here very long and who was 
accustomed to mulch his beds where he had Uved. This seems to be nature's selection 
for strawberry plant life. They have a long time to ripen and harden up before the 
winter weathei- comtjs, when they are usually covered with snow, which gives them the 
covering 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. In all of our dealings with customers we have never had one say 
that the plants would not grow, if the package arrived in, or any where near, the time 
that a package Is suppos<id to travel from us to the customer. Plants that are grown in 
a warm sunny climate and are used to continual simshlne 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 sucooss as those that are grown farther north. 
