Our Greeting for 1942 
First of all we want to take a moment to thank each of our many cus- 
tomers for the business you gave us last year. It is appreciated and we 
hope our efforts to give you the best nursery stock possible have helped 
to make your plantings successful. 
While no one of us can say what the future will bring, there are some. 
things that we can all look forward to with undoubted certainty. Our 
Federal Government is bringing increased attention to the necessity 
of ‘‘Food-for-Defense” and has marked the doubling of the consumption 
of many kinds of fresh fruits as its goal in maintaining the health of 
our people both at home and at the front. Every fruit grower can do 
his part by increasing his fruit production. There will be a ready mar- 
ket for his crops at good prices. Those who have garden space—small 
ob or large—can not only grow enough for home use, but can have an op- 
O. A. D. Baldwin portunity to make a worthwhile extra income. 
It is to everyone’s advantage that just when this greater demand for 
fruit comes, there is also a number of unusually fine newer varieties 
of all kinds of fruits being perfected and ready for general planting. 
You will find 12 such varieties in this catalog in strawberries, raspberries, 
blackberries, peaches, pears. The older kinds are no less desirable and 
valuable. All have proven of outstanding value and generally satis- 
factory in all fruit growing sections. 
This is the most complete selection we have had in years. Our soil 
and climate here in the heart of the Michigan Fruit Belt produces the 
finest of all kinds of plants and trees. In nursery stock, more than in 
most things, good quality cannot be- seen and confidence is the guide 
to where your order is placed. The fact that this is our 53rd successful 
year in the nursery business reminds us forcibly of the splendid con- 
fidence our many customers have in us and makes us feel more strongly 
each year our obligation to give the finest quality at a reasonable price. 
Please feel free to write us at any time. Our years of experience 
are yours to call on not only before but also after you have received 
your shipment. Again we ask for your order and know you will be 
fully satisfied in every way with our nursery stock and the service we 
G. W. R. Baldwin give you. 
ommercial Berry 
When all is considered PREMIER is the 
most profitable strawberry variety grown 
today. It puts a big crop of fine appearing ° ° 
Weeriag on the market first every time and Why Premier lS Better 
does it in spite of frosts that often kill other 




varieties. These two facts are PREMIER’S 1. First to ripen. 
greatest points of superiority as a depend- 2, Remarkably frost resistant. 
able money-maker. PREMIER eliminates Serongrriitine sencorn 
crop failures, and by ripening five days to as tv 1 
a week earlier than any other kind, it never ESSAI ASM ER ee Ay lO) YS 
fails to command high prices. Always pro- 5. Size above average. 
duces its good crops on a wide range of soils 6. Bright, glossy, solid color. 
ae er Se aes the cpu ste 7. Uniform, attractive shape. 
ctually millions more Premier plants . ; 3 
have been sold the past few years than any e: ae berry, Resear olde as Se 
other kind. Premier continues to be widely 9. UYeTE Peay a. 01S. DIennum Lor. tee 
planted in larger quantities than any other mier. 
early berry. Growers Bor auat PREMIER 
is an unfailing money-maker every year. 
Consumers demand it. You will need to PREMIER PRICES 
grow PREMIER—and plenty of them—to be 25 for......$0.45 300 for__.... $2.70 
in the berry business profitably. 50 for...... .70 
100 forsee 115.5 409. fohe ree 
Order at once so we can reserve yours. Our plants = > ° f 
are guaranteed true-to-name, healthy and vigorous. 200 fore 1.95 1000 for____.. 6.95 
You can depend on them to make money. 
Greater Security can be had only from Greater Production 
