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RIDGE GROWN TREES AND PLANTS 
Made to Order Fruit Trees 
CUSTOM GRAFTING ON GENUINE VIRGINIA CRAB STOCK AND OTHER 
APPROVED STOCKS OF YOUR 
SELECTION 
Recent years has proven that many of our better commercial varieties of apple have weak bodies that causes 
the loss of the trees under abnormal low temperatures and weather conditions. 
certain varieties under certain conditions. 
recommended made to order fruit trees on 
Several fruit research men have 
This service we are offer- 
ing our customers is in response to these recommendations. 
The Bountiful Ridge Nurseries is ready to grow you trees the way you want them grown—the varieties you 
want grown—when yeu want them grown—and offer you personalized service you cannot secure from any other 
nursery. We invite your correspondence. 
Loeation and Production Methods 
The Delmarva Peninsula is fast becoming known as 
the greatest nursery center of the East because of its 
very favorable climatic conditions and varied soils. We 
often have temperatures ranging down to 10 degrees be- 
low zero during the winter months and our frost starts 
in early October to properly cure out our growing 
stock; our killing frost usually coming the last week in 
October or the first week in November. Statistics 
show we have an av®rage yearly temperature of 56 de- 
grees as compared with 58 degrees Fahrenheit at Atlan- 
ta, Ga., and 53 degrees Fahrenheit at Columbus, O., and 
50 degrees Fahrenheit at Hartford, Conn. However, our 
Summer growing seasons are so favorable that it en- 
ables us to, produce maximum growth with a minimum 
of fertilization. Our soil varies from a rich chocolate 
loam, where our deeper rooted plants and trees are 
grown to the lighter sandy soils, where our small ber- 
ry plants and asparagus roots are grown. Our water 
table is very close to the surface and we are seldom af- 
fected by severe drouths. With this combination of 
soil and climatie conditions, we know of no other sec- 
tions that can produce nursery stock with so uniform 
a growth from year to year. 
WITH OVER 75 YEARS NURSERY PRODUCTION 
EXPERIENCE IN THE KEMP FAMILY, WE ARE 
TODAY COMBINING THIS PRACTICAL KNOWL- 
EDGE WITH IMPROVED PRODUCTION METH- 
ODS AND MODERN MACHINERY, AND OUR 
FAVORABLE SOIL AND CLIMATIC CONDI- 
TIONS TO PRODUCE THE BEST STOCK IT IS 
POSSIBLE TO GROW. 
Few nurseries can point to such a winning combina- 
tion as we have here at Bountiful Ridge. These com- 
bined factors enables us to produce stock that will 
adapt itself to various soil and climatic conditions 
wherever it is planted, and gives to the planter produc- 
ing fields that are living examples of the superiority of 
Bountiful Ridge trees and plants. All nursery stock 
is of perishable nature and is vitally effected by the 
manner in which it is handled, by the producing nur- 
ery, the transporting carrier and the planter, as well 
as soil, moisture and general climatic conditions. Grow- 
ing and producing fields in every section of the United 
States attest the fact: 
PROPERLY GROWN BOUNTIFUL RIDGE 
STOCK PLUS YOUR COOPERATION, BRINGS 
YOU MAXIMUM RESULTS FROM YOUR PLANT- 
INGS YEAR AFTER YEAR. 
“WHEN BETTER TREES 
GROWN, BOUNTIFUL 
THEM.” 
AND 
RIDGE 
PLANTS ARE 
WILL GROW 
Spraying Nursery Stock 
Although our nursery is many miles from any com- 
mercial orchard, yet we practice complete spraying 
of all stock, from the tender shoot to the matured tree 
or plant. The orchardist, more than ever before in 
history, is confronted with new hazards from disease 
and insects which were unknown a few years ago, 
and in order to do our part to bring him clean, healthy 
disease free stock, we employ timely spray and dusting 
programs to cover the various seasonal conditions and 
use special formulas designed for nursery stock. Again 
during the past several years, we have purchased the 
most practical up-to-date spraying and dusting equip- 
ment known to science. All this is done because we 
feel that it is an obligation we owe to our customers 
to deliver them nursery stock which is healthy. This 
is another Bountiful Ridge service we are proud to 
render. 
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Personalized Advisory Service 
Hundreds of growers all over the nation take ad- 
vantage of our tree advisory service which is conduct- 
ed for our customers in connection with the Research 
Department. 
Our library of subjects include: planting, cultural 
directions, spraying, pruning, soil testing, cover crops 
with relation to soil building, pollenization, fertiliza- 
tion, adaptability and fruit identification. 
The information given out on these sujeets is the 
results obtained from our own observation and exper- 
ience as well as U. 8S. D. A. and State Experiment in- 
vestigators. 
Individual problems, 
many times need special treat- 
ment which we are always glad to render with the 
hope it- will prove helpful in every way. We invite 
your correspondence. 
Triple Inspection Service 
Mr. Geo. W. Kemp, General Manager, Homer S. and 
Edgar H. Kemp, Assistant Managers all live on our 
main Nursery Farm. They personally supervise all 
Nursery operations. They are constantly inspecting 
the growing Nursery stock, always on the alert for 
possible fungus and insect infections. They supervise 
all bud wood cutting to eliminate possible distribution 
of infectuous diseases. Our personal supervision ex- 
tends to the digging, grading and packing periods to 
note possible root infections. Our State maintains com- 
petent full time field inspectors for the strawberry 
plant industry of our section going over growing fields 
from 38 to 5 times each year for possible infections of 
Crimp, Root Nematode, Red Steele Root Rot and other 
plant diseases. All Strawberry plant shipments carry 
special Strawberry plant certificate. Our Raspberry 
plants are inspected three times during growing and 
digging periods. A competent Federal inspector is 
maintained at our Nursery during shipping periods to 
inspect all stock going outside of the infested Japanese 
Beetle area. 
“NOTHING IS LEFT UNDONE HERE AT BOUNTI- 
FUL RIDGE TO PROTECT THE FUTURE LIFE AND 
SUCCESS OF OUR TREES AND PLANTS SHIPPED 
TO OUR CUSTOMERS.” 

Mr. 
Block 
Await The Planters Call. 
Asst. 
Trees. 
Homer Kemp, 
of Peach 
Mgr. Standing in Our 1941 
More Than 600,000 Fine Trees 
No Finer Stock Can Be Grown 
Anywhere. Photograph Dee. 10, 1941, 
. There are No “‘Side-Lines” at Bountiful Ridge - We Should and Can Serve You Better. 
