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SOUTH MICHIGAN NURSERY, New Buffalo, Michigan 
Pink Snowball 
PINK SNOWBALL (Viburnum Carlesi) 
This wonderful new medium sized shrub was 
brought here from Korea. Its fragrance greatly re¬ 
sembles that of the Trailing Arbutus. This shrub 
will start to bloom early in the spring like the Trail¬ 
ing Arbutus, thrives best in a partial shade, in cool 
moist soil. Truly, the greatest new shrub intro¬ 
duced for some time. Nice two year field grown 
plants-for only 75c, Postpaid. 
How and Where I Found the Alfred 
Blackberry 
BY GEORGE STROMER—Originator 
Fourteen years ago last August, while I was walking 
along an old abandoned right-of-way, I noticed an un¬ 
usually large Blackberry bush growing near a former 
station called ALFRED. (This station was merely a 
junction.) The ripe berries with which it was loaded 
were extraordinarily large. The following spring I 
dug it up from its native soil, and cut the roots so as 
to make three plants. These were planted in a rich soil 
where they grew vigorously all summer. That follow¬ 
ing winter was very severe in Michigan, but they with¬ 
stood the heavy frosts, and fourteen degrees below 
zero. Many young plants sprang up from the roots, the 
next spring I transplanted these, and cultivated them 
carefully. Year after year, with diligent care, I have 
propagated these plants to such an extent that the 
fruit is now being supplied to the local markets at a 
fancy price, and is always in good demand. Last 
year I measured a good many berries that were over 
one and one-half inches long, and three inches 
around. Nurserymen claim that the ALFRED is the 
largest berry they have ever seen. Buy from the 
originator and get GENUINE ALFRED. 
ALFRED, Blackberry 
STANDS 35° BELOW ZERO 
See letter below. 
Lack of space forbids describing in 
detail the many good points of this 
variety; however, I wish to call your 
attention to the outstanding reasons 
why the ALFRED is superior to all 
other varieties. 
Bears Second Season — ALFRED 
is such a healthy, vigorous grower 
that it produces a good crop of berries 
the year following planting. It is not 
unusual to pick 10 to 40 berries from 
the bush the same year planted. 
Immense Size — The berries are 
twice as large as ordinary blackber¬ 
ries, many of them 1% inches long, 
and the finest flavored of all Blackber¬ 
ries. It is an ideal table berry be¬ 
cause it is practically CORELESS, 
sweet and delicious. It is very small 
seeded. 
Extremely Hardy —ALFRED can be 
grown anywhere without winter pro¬ 
tection, having withstood 30 degrees 
below zero, and not a single tip of a 
branch injured, while other varieties 
were frozen to the ground. 
Early Season— This is one big fea¬ 
ture of this variety. It ripens a week 
to ten days earlier than Eldorado and 
in productiveness it is in a class by itself. We 
have seen them bear a second crop. We picked 
many cases this year in September. As I watch 
the ALFRED year after year, I am more and 
more thoroughly convinced that the ALFRED 
BLACKBERRY WILL HAVE A PROMINENT 
PLACE IN THE VALUABLE FRUIT HALLS OF 
FAME. 
BLACKBERRY plants are difficult to propa¬ 
gate, and it will be years before there will be a 
supply of ALFRED plants. Plants will be pruned 
and ready to set out. Buy your ALFRED Black¬ 
berry plants from the “ORIGINATOR” and be 
sure to get the GENUINE. 
We have 2 year husky bearing size 
Alfred plants that will bear this year. 
Postpaid. See page 23 for prices. 
Brownsville, Wis., April 28, 1933 
South Michigan Nursery, 
New Buffalo, Mich. 
Since last fall I have wanted to write and tell you how well 
satisfied we are with the 5,000 Latham and 1,000 Alfred plants 
I bought from you last spring. 
First of all I finished cultivating them this morning and I don’t 
think I lost one plant from winter kill. And if they lived through 
the 35 degrees below zero weather we had last winter I’m sure 
they’ll stand anything. And the way they are starting out is 
encouraging. I’m sure we’ll have a fine crop this coming season. 
Also we were surprised at the number of berries we got last fall. 
From July on we had plenty of berries to eat. I even sold a few 
cases. I think in all we picked 10 cases and there were still a few 
berries on when it froze last fall. 
Sincerely, W. B. DINS. 
