. . . TERMS . . . 
The terms of payment are cash with order, or at least one-third, and balance 
before shipment. Remit with postal or express order, registered letter or draft 
on Chicago or New York. 
We never substitute without instructions from purchaser. 
We offer no chromos or prize packages as an inducement to buy our plants, 
but give our patrons more than their value in quality of stock, careful packing, etc. 
We have unsurpassed facilities in central locations for storing and packing, 
and numerous routes for shipping to all parts of the country, with express and 
freight rates as low as those of any other establishment. 
Our responsibility ceases on delivery of goods at railroad or express office. 
Should any stock prove not true to name we will either refund the purchase 
money of same, or replace the stock with stock true to name free, but are not 
liable for further damages, and while we are exercising great care to prevent mix- 
tures the above is to be a condition on which all stock is delivered. 
We have not a plant cellared or healed out; all will be freshly dug same day 
shipped. Will begin about March 25. Would advise orders sent in early. 
OUR LOCATION. 
Bridgman is eleven miles south of St. Joseph. Our office and grounds are 
one mile north of the Chicago & West Michigan depot, on the St. Joe drive. 
Our advantages in shipping are unsurpassed in the United States. Time, 
only three hours run to Chicago over the C. & W. M. railroad. Via St. Josepl 
by the great Graham & Morton elegant steamers twice a day. 
Within fifty miles the Chicago & West Michigan connects with all the 
trunk lines, east, west, north and south, to-wit: At Benton Harbor wi 
Big Four; at St. Joseph with the Vandalia (Penn. R. R. ); at New Buffal 
the Michigan Central; at La Porte, Ind., with the L. S. & M. S. and Lake 
Western; at Belfast with the L. E. & W.; at McGee with the Wabash; at \\ 
boro with the Chicago & Grand Trunk and B. & O. ; at Hanna with the Pitts. & 
Ft. Wayne, at Tliomaston with the Nickle Plate; at La Crosse with the Pan 
Handle, Monon and C. & I. C. 
Our express is the American, which connects with all the above lines within 
one hour. The company gives a discount of 20 per cent which all of you get 
the benefit of. I do not send anything by mail, as it is necessary to strip and 
trim which injures the crown of the plant. 
With the prices I quote, and the express charges low, I think it will reach 
all. I do not send plants C. O. D. 
We are able at any time in the season to supply any quantity of select fruit 
to-wit: Berries, Apples, Peaches, Pears and Grapes of our own growing, fresh. 
Our farm and nursery is one mile from Lake Michigan. 
To estimate the number of plants required for an acre, at any given distance 
multiply the distance between the rows by the distance between the plants which 
will give the number of square feet alloted to each plant, and divide the number 
of square feet in an acre (43,560) by this number. The quotient will be the 
number of plants required. 
Cane plants are packed in boxes with £ 52 
straw, moss and wood pulp. 
Strawberry plants are packed in our Eu- 
reka Crates with moss and straw, and with 
tops exposed to the air. 
All strawberries and small fruit plants 
tied in bunches, 25 plants each. eureka crate. 
In conclusion, 1 wish to say, the following varieties I have cultivated infield 
culture. Some sorts that do well here may not be a success in some other local- 
ity, but it is not my desire to mislead or disappoint any one. My strawberry 
plants are grown on new ground, in solid blocks of varieties, expressly for plants 
and will be taken up solid, not weakened runners, that are sold at low prices. 
I take pleasure in recommending to my patrons the list of advertisers gracing 
my pages with their “ads” collectively.' I can, from business acquaintance 
with them, say, should you favor them with your confidence, it will not be mis- 
placed. Would advise all to order early. 
Send for estimates on very large quantities. 
