
THE LATE S. E. HOLDRIDGE PAUL HOLDRIDGE 
Founder Manager 
1943 GREETING 
To Our Friends and Customers: 
Again this spring we are urged to produce more food- 
stuffs of every description. We must all plan to produce in 
our gardens and on our farms more berries and fruits. It is 
probably more urgent this year than ever before to start with 
plants and trees of guaranteed quality. With labor so scarce 
we must take more precautions that we reap abundant harvests 
from every crop planted. 
Strawberry plants have been a major crop on the Holdridge 
Farm for over 25 years. With us they have produced excellent 
crops year after year. We know from our long experience that 
strawberry plants grown here in Connecticut will produce many 
more quarts of berries over a period of years than berries from 
southern plant farms. 
Almost every year we fill more orders than ever before. 
This is absolute proof that satisfactory results are being ob- 
tained. We have about three hundred thousand strawberry 
plants for sale this spring. They are vigorous plants, have 
made wide rows and have generations of good breeding behind 
them. 
If we receive an order from you, we pledge that it will, 
receive careful, personal attention. The plants will. be dug, 
trimmed, bunched and packed with the one purpose in mind of 
delivering to you the healthy, husky plants you want. We try 
especially hard to have the plants delivered to you when you 
want them. 
We have more asparagus and raspberry plants and more 
fruit trees on hand for this spring than ever before. All are 
northern grown, top quality products. You are welcome to come 
and inspect them. 
May we help you to good crops of fruits and berries and 
thus do our share in shortening the time until victory is ours? 
Sincerely, 
PAUL HOLDRIDGE, 
For S. E. Holdridge & Sons. 
