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[ From Ohio Farmer, October 22, 1S92. ] 
W HILE in attendance at the West Virginia state fair, this fall, we were the guest of E. W. Reid, of 
Bridgeport, O. Mr. Reid's farm and nursery is situated on the highest hills of Belmont county, 
two miles from Bridgeport, and commands one of the finest and most extensive views in the state. 
The limestone soil of these hills is exceedingly fertile, and everything it produces is of the 
strongest, most vigorous character. Hence it is peculiarly adapted to the nursery business. Mr. Reid has 
built up a large business here. He handles more mail than any other establishment in the Ohio Valley out- 
side of Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, and isoneof the largest advertisers, in the nursery line, m the United 
States. He superintends the entire business himself, and is conscientiously particular in seeing that only 
good stock, and such as is ordered, is sent out to customers. It is his honesty and fair dealing, combined 
with intelligent enterprise, that has so rapidly built up the business to its present proportions, He has 
recently purchased exclusive control of what he believes to be the most promising Strawberry yet brought 
out— the Timbrell. It originated with H. S. Timbrell, of New York state, and has been in bearing five 
years so that its character has been fully tested. It has the unqualified indorsement of Mr. Carman, Mr. 
Valentine and Mr. Fowler, of The Rural New-Yorker, Peter Henderson & Sons, and others who know what 
it is. It is very late— as late as Gandy, and three times as productive in size equal to Bubach No. 5, and 
in fruiting qualities, almost equal to Haverland and Parker Earle. 
As) Interesting Business. 
A Concert? Neer Wheeling of Whose oitutle Pew People Have Any Idc*. 
[ From Wheeling Daily Intelligencer , April 12, 1S92. ] 
An Intelligencer reporter yesterday had a conversation with Mr. E. W. Reid, the Bridgeport nursery- 
man in the course of which several things were learned which were not only new, but interesting to the 
reporter, and doubtless will be to the greater part of the public. 
Few people in this vicinity have any idea of the magnitude of Mr. Reid's business. He handles more 
mail than any other establishment doing business in the Ohio Valley, outside of the large publishing com- 
panies in Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. 
Mr. Reid is an ardent advocate of advertising, spending thousands of dollars each season, and is now 
known as one of the largest advertisers in his line in the United States. 
He says this expenditure, with honest dealing and good stock, has made business so prosperous. Mr. 
Reid attends personally to his entire business. 
It is astonishing the tons of mail and the thousands of orders that make their way to and from the 
Bridgeport office. They come from every nook and corner in the world. Not the United States alone, but 
from foreign countries. 
As to the location of a nursery here, Mr. Reid says there is not another as good in the country. The 
average nurSery depends for shipment on one express company, while here there are six, and there is scarcely 
a town in the country that cannot be reached direct from Wheeling and Bridgeport, to say nothing of the 
river and freight lines, with their advantages for heavy shipments. 
The climate, also, is just right. Farther north in a colder country, trees do not grow as hearty, while 
farther south, in a milder country, the roots do Dot grow as deep and strong. 
Altogether, this business is a striking illustration of what can be done with a good location, an under- 
standing of the nursery business, faith in advertising, and sensible enterprise. There are several other lines 
of business which need only similar stimulus to make them as strikingly successful as 
FraStSo 
This is one striking success of his advertising, for one cannot open a paper of national reputation, but 
about the first thing that attracts his attention is 
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