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HENRY EMLONG 
Founder 
U.S. 12, Only 85 Miles From Chicago. Railway Express 



Field of Two-Year-Old Apple Trees Ready to Dig. Well- 
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We Have Nearly 500,000 Peach Trees Ready for Emlong 
Customers This Year. Most Beautiful Stock You Ever 
Saw. Every Tree Guaranteed Perfect 
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Over 100,000 of the Finest Sweet and Sour Cherry ‘Trees 
Ever Produced, Ready For Particular Growers This 
Year. Get Yours Reserved Early! 
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Millions of Emlong-Grown Strawberry ‘Plants Demanded 
by Successful Growers Every Year. Famed for Big Roots 
and Heavy-Yielding Ability 


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Visitors Enjoying a Section of Our Big Rose Show, Held 
Every Year in June. Over 15,000 Bushes in Full Bloom. 
Folks Come From All Over the U.S. A. 
THIS BOOK COPYRIGHT 1941. 
Emlongs Plants and 
RALPH EMLONG 
Manager 
Trees 
Grown in the Heart of the Great Fruit Belt 
WILL DO MORE FOR YOU 
Wherever fruit and flowers are planted, 
Emlong’s plants and trees are praised for 
their dependability. You can get the best 
plants and trees in the world at Emlong’s, 
without paying any more than you would 
elsewhere for just ordinary stock of un- 
certain origin. We place at your service a 
half century of experience and over 600 
acres of the finest land in Berrien County, 
devoted to the growing of millions of plants 
and trees. 
The loyal support of our customers has built 
this great business. Every year thousands 
of new customers are brought to us by our 
friends who have succeeded with Emlong 
plants and trees. Deal direct with the farg- 
est grower in the fruit belt. Insure your 
own success. Emlong’s stand for depend- 
ability, honesty and square dealing. Com- 
pare our quality and prices with others— 
judge for yourself! 
BIG ROOTS, QUICK GROWTH, YOUNG 
BEARING, HEAVY YIELDS, and HIGHEST 
QUALITY FRUIT have made Emlong’s fruit 
plants and trees famous. We are right in 
the heart of the great northern fruit belt, 
where we can select the FINEST STRAINS 
AND VARIETIES FOR YOU. Surrounded by 
millions of bearing fruit trees, our expert 
selects buds from those showing the BIG- 
GEST CROPS of HIGHEST GRADE, BRIGHT- 
EST COLORED FRUIT. 
Nature and science combine to help us grow 
and handle trees and plants so that our 
customers get all the roots and all the life. 
We build our own modern machines for soil 
tillage, planting, cultivating, spraying, rain- 
making, digging, etc. It takes $100,000 
worth of equipment to grow nursery stock 
the Emlong way! Expert growers with life- 
time experience contribute their skill. 
OF GREATEST IMPORTANCE TO YOU 
When you buy a plant or tree, what you 
really buy is its bearing or blooming power. 
Regardless of whether you pay 15c or $2.50 
for a fruit tree, if you cannot depend on its 
bearing power it will be worthless to you. 
Good breeding in outety stock is very im- 
portant. Poor stock will bring forth poor 
fruit or flowers. Good stock brings forth 
Grade-A fruit and flowers, in great abun- 
dance. Emlong’s fruit trees are grown on 
choicest whole-root stock, which means full 
vitality and bearing power. 
QUANTITY RATES 
COMMERCIAL FRUIT GROWERS. Send us 
a list of the plants and trees which you de- 
sire to plant this year and we will quote 
special quantity rates on the lot. Please 
state varieties and sizes preferred. 
VISITORS WELCOME 
Stop in when you pass our nursery office, 
on U. S. Highway 12 between Stevensville 
and St. Joseph, Mich. Come and get your 
stock during the planting season if possible. 
Visit our big Rose Show in June. 
TIME TO PLANT 
Early spring is the ideal time to plant most 
nursery stock. Things are dormant then, 
and will transplant without risk. Some stock 
can be planted in late fall. Strawberry 
plants should be moved only in spring. 
March and April and May are the main 
planting months. Perennial flowers are 
planted mostly in May. 
GENERAL TERMS 
Reserve your order just as soon as you re- 
ceive this book. We will ship at the proper 
planting time for your locality, or you may 
notify us when you are ready to plant. Send 
full remittance with small orders. See next 
page for terms on larger orders. Please read 
information on the back of order blank. 
We prepay postage on perennial flower 
plants, bulbs, and small lots of strawberry 
plants. Other stock is shipped collect for 
charges, which automatically insures it in 
transit. Delivery charges usually amount to 
about 10 per cent of cost of stock, but this 
varies according to size of stock and dis- 
tance shipped. 
There’s no spot in the world so naturally 
ideal for producing highest quality plants 
and trees, as here on Emlong’s fertile farms 
in the great northern fruit belt. Soil is 
high, well-drained, very fertile. Tempera- 
ture just right in the fall to bring trees and 
shrubs gradually to a completely dormant 
state and make them hardy. Our PERFECT- 
CIRCLE ROOTS of bright, healthy color 
amaze everyone who sees them. They are 
worth more to you, but cost no more. Ask 
for our free bulletin, telling what others 
have done with Emlong stock. 
BUDDED FROM 
BEARING TREES 
Our fruit tree buds are cut from outstand- 
ing trees in the finest orchards in the Fruit 
Belt. We have millions of bearing trees 
from which to make our selection of buds. 
Western Michigan fruit has a nation-wide 
reputation for rich flavor and color. These 
important features are bred into Emlong- 
grown trees. 

CLIFFORD EMLONG 
Asst. Manager 
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