
THE LATE S. E. HOLDRIDGE PAUL HOLDRIDGE 
Founder Manager 
1941 GREETING 
Dear Friends: 
It is our pleasure to present you this catalogue for 1941. 
In this letter we want to thank you for the business which you 
gave us again, last year, and we wish especially to thank those 
who recommended us to their friends and neighbors. We hope 
that we can serve you this year so that we may receive your 
business for years to come. 
Our business is small and we can assure you that every 
order, large or small, will receive our full attention. Each step 
in the filling of an order, the digging, the trimming, the bunch- 
ing and the packing will be done with the one purpose in mind 
of delivering to you the healthy, husky plants you want and 
shipping them just when you want them. As this is a very 
seasonal business, many times we work very long days to get 
your orders out on time. 
We have two acres of strawberry plants for sale this 
spring. This bed has done unusually well. The rows are nearly 
four feet wide and evenly spaced over the whole bed. We feel 
that these plants, with many generations of breeding here in 
Connecticut behind them, have got the vigor necessary to pro- 
duce tremendous crops of berries in this locality. 
Over a long period of years we have been very careful in 
keeping varieties true to name, pulling out some plants which 
are not true to type. We feel we can guarantee your plants 
true to name. 
In every way possible we try to sell you plants which will 
produce very good yields of big delicious berries for your table 
or for your market. 
Best wishes for a prosperous 1941 and a fine crop of berries 
in 1942. 
Sincerely, 
PAUL HOLDRIDGE, 
For S. E. Holdridge & Sons. 
