

THE LATE S. &. HOLDRIDGE PAUL HOLDRIDGE 
Founder Manager 
1944 GREETING 
To Our Friends and Customers: 
May we present to you our catalogue to help you make 
your plans for your farms and gardens in 1944? With less help 
available than ever before, we know you are trying to plan to 
produce your share of the tremendous needs of our country 
this year. 
One of the major crops on the Holdridge Farm for more 
than 25 years has been strawberries and strawberry plants. We 
know from our long experience that we can raise and sell you 
plants that will produce tremendous crops of strawberries here 
in New England. With labor as scarce as it is, Northern grown, 
disease-free plants are a necessity for the efficient gardener 
this year. 
Last year we had by far the biggest business in our his- 
tory. We know that a few orders were a little late in getting 
to our customers but all of us here at the Holdridge Farm were 
doing our best and the great majority of orders went out exact- 
ly on schedule. 
We have not available quite as many strawberry plants this 
year as last. We hope that if you want plants, you will order 
early. Let us substitute if necessary and order your plants for 
early delivery. 
We are going to do our very best to see that you get plants 
of the same high grade as always and to get them when you 
want them. 
Sincerely, 
PAUL HOLDRIDGE, 
For S. E. Holdridge & Sons. 
The strawberry plants came safely in fine shape. Am much 
pleased with them. Many thanks. 
JOSIAH PORTER, 
Columbia, Conn. 
