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Wonder vine Farm 
Hill & Schweizer 
New Milford, Ohio 
U. S. D. A. Purple Raspberry “POTOMAC” 
Again we are pleased to present this small descrip¬ 
tion and price list of our small fruit plants. To you, it 
likely, is only another nursery catalog. To us, it has 
meant days of thot, as we realize that it is our salesman 
appealing to you. 
Not only must we sell you as to the value of our 
plants but also as to our trustworthiness, truthfulness and 
thots cf fair play. We must do this with a few words 
in competition with highly colored pictures, pages of ex- 
aggereated descriptions and claims, of enormous yields 
and profits, millions of plants and thousands of acres. 
Also in competition with “bargains in plant collections,” 
free gifts, discounts for early orders, and new variety 
claims. 
To put it plainly every sales message we might give 
you has already been presented. We might give you our 
bankers name but he knows nothing about plants and you 
wouldn’t write him anyway. We might give you testi¬ 
monials (we have them on file), or the names of old 
customers that are still buying each year, but all this is 
old stuff. 
In other words, all we can do is to present our de¬ 
scription and prices and allow you to use your own judg¬ 
ment as to whom you should send your order. 
We grow raspberries for commercial fruiting and 
believe we know plants and varieties. Our plants come 
f”cm bearing plantations, from which we pick during sea¬ 
son from 100 to 150 bushels per day, or 40 to 75 bushels 
per acre according to the age of the patch and weather 
conditions. Would you want to invest in a calf for a 
milk cow whose dam had never been milked, only al¬ 
lowed to raise calves? What can you expect from plants 
that have been taken from parent plants that have never 
been allowed to fruit and they in turn for several gener¬ 
ations back not allowed to fruit? 
We could easily use several pages of this booldet in 
telling you of our start seven or eight years ago with 
the Ohm Small Fruit Improvement Association, in the 
production of clean raspberry plants. Also of our grow¬ 
ing business each year in supplementing Association of¬ 
ferings with other varieties. We are still small in com¬ 
parison with many nurseries but our increasing business 
with repeat orders, shows we are large enough to give 
satisfaction and yet give personal attention to corres¬ 
pondence and orders. 
