PLANT SPRING HILL'S SUPERIOR PEACHES FOR Zoftt 
HOME GROWN TASTE BETTER, COST LESS! 

FAMOUS ORANGE QUINCE 
GIANT ORANGE QUINCE—Most popular large quince. 
Famous - for its size, rich golden-orange colors, pro- 
ductiveness, aroma and most excellent quality. The 
best variety for cooking because it gets tender and 
has an excellent flavor. Bears 3rd year. 8-4 ft. tall, 
catalog number 7S4C309, 98¢ each; 3 for $2.85. 6-7 
ft. tall, super size bearing age, catalog number 7S4A- 
309, $1.95 each; 3 for $5.75; 10 for $18.65. 
High Yielding APRICOTS 
MOCRPAR Extra large, hardy and. one of the finest apricots. 
; Rich, juicy and sweet. yellow freestone variety famous 
for high yields. © e 
SUPERB 
One of the best. 





Extra hardy apricot, originated in Kansas. Medium large fruit, 
firm and highly colored. Superb for canning, eating and drying. 

Your choice of above varieties, 2 yr., 3 to 4 ft. size, catalog number 7S4B310, $1.55 
each; 2 for $2.95. 5 to 7 ft. size, catalog number 7S4A310, $1.95 each; 2 for 
$3.75; 6 for $10.60. 
; Superb 
We suggest you plant one each of above varieties for cross-pollination. Apricot ¢ 
WAR STAMPS ACCEPTED jr your cant order trom spring 
Hill. Many feel the importance of necessity in purchasing war stamps. Spring 
Hill will accept War Stamps for payment of your order, in that way Uncle 
Sam will have the money; YOU HAVE the plants; we have the stamps \which 
will be turned into War Bonds. Spend your money where it will do the most 
good. ¢ 

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HISTORY CF CUR BUSINESS 
_ Peter Bohlender Stayed At Home While Gold Miners Rushed West To California. 
In 1849, the same year in which |gold was discovered in California, Peter 
Bohlender started working in a nursery near Dayton, Ohio. His natural love of 
trees and plants, his intimate knowledge of their proper planting and care, led him 
to the nursery business. So with the smallest of shoestring beginnings he launched 
his career aS a nurseryman. 
The buildings were small and the market was restricted to fruit trees and 
a few ornamental shrubs. Slowly, but surely, business improved and the nursery meat Natarerarataseverere 
expanded. People around the locality of the nursery found that they could depend, SULLA LLnL 
on Peter Bohlender’s selection of plants. These people told their friends and the PETER BOHLENDER, Founder 

fame of the little nursery spread. Est. 1849 
Perhaps Peter Bohlender never realized it, but one workers who have served from a quarter to almost half 
of the main factors in his success is that he was never a century, each one generously giving valuable experience 
an “office nurseryman”....he worked side by side with and advice. ; 
his men, cultivating the soil, planting and transplanting. Today, in 1944, the unbelievably small nursery has 
Literally and actually he knew the business from the grown to gigantic proportions...the packing sheds alone 
ground up. Even today, his grandson-successors are to now contain approximately 75,000 square feet, nearly 2 
be seen working in the fields. Like Peter Bohlender, they acres of floor space! It’s the largest of its kind in the 
know the conditions of the soil from Practical Experience. country! From these packing sheds each year go millions 
....and will tell you just how to go about improving your of plants and trees to every state in the Union! 
home both from the standpoint of improvement and 
investment. 
We attribute our success and growth to our location 
' in the heart of the fertile Miami Riv- 
For 95 ‘years the Spring Hill er Valley of Central Ohio, where we 
Nurseries has been operated by the have superlative conditions for the 
same family... from Peter Bohlend- production of the finest plants. Be- 
er to son to grandsons. Under each cause of our buildings and modern 
generation the management has been methods of operations Spring Hill is 
of the productive rather than the TODAY able to offer better plants, 
executive type. better service and better values for @ 
With the members of the family your money. | URSE RIES 
-are a number of staunch and loyal SATISFACTION GUARANTEED iz 





