
This New Variety Was Offered For The First 
Time Last Season. Ripens 2 weeks earlier than 
the “Old Favorite Cumberland.” Everybody 
has been looking for a blackcap that is better 
than the Cumberland. We have now found one 
that has all the good points of the Cumberland 
plus being’ a more thrifty grower, and also 
hig Gift Planting! 
New Early Improved ‘ 
CUMBERLAND 
ae 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than Cumber- 
and. 
Berries are large, jet black in color, very 
firm and have a delicious sweet flavor. Strong 
thrifty grower, and very resistant to disease. 
The berries retain their large size throughout 
the picking season—the last picking as good as 
the first. 
_ The fine characteristic of this new berry plus 
all the good qualities of the Cumberland, com- 
bined with its early ripening season, make this 
the best’ early berry. Plant both the old and 
New Improved Cumberland and lengthen the 
picking season 2 weeks. 
We are using this new blackcap as a premium 
so our customers can see what a wonderful 
berry this iss NOTE OFFER BELOW. 
PRICE: 5 for $1.25; 10 for $2.00; 25 for 
$4.50; 50 for $8.00; 100 for $14.00. 

BIG GIFT PLANTING—Free with Early Cash Orders 
To every customer who sends us an order before April 1st, 1946 accompanied by cash in full at regular catalog rate 
(this doesn’t apply on bargains or special quotations), and who in addition sends us the names and addresses of three 
fruit growers, or purchasers of nursery stock, we will send absolutely free the following number of New Improved 
Cumberland raspberry plants. 
5 Improved Cumberland (priced at $1.25) free with cash orders between $3.00 and $5.00 
10 Improved Cumberland (priced at $2.00) free with cash orders for $5.00 or more 
We ean handle and ship a $5.00 or $10.00 order with very little extra expense over a smaller order and we pass the 
saving on to you in this premium value. Let your neighbor help. Two persons may combine orders and divide the pre- 
mium if shipped to one person. 
a Be sure to send the three names and addresses with your order. (Use space provided on back of order sheet.) The 
gift positively will not be sent unless customer complies with this condition. This offer open until April Ist, 1946 only. 
Our supply of the New Improved Cumberland is too limited to make this offer effective after April Ist. On all cash 
orders received after April 1st, when accompanied by three names referred to, we will include the New Improved Cum- 
berland if still available: but if not, we will include additional nursery stock of our own selection as to variety and 
value. 
No special bargain collections are included in this free plant offer. 
has been quoted. 
We Aim fo Tell You the Truth—We Are Farmers. Too, and Don’t Try to Sell 
Nor cash orders where a special reduced price 
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Apples -....... 30-31, 33 
\ Apricots *.222 22 eae 
Asparagus 38 
Barberry, 2) ees 20 
‘ Blackberries _._... 31, 41 
. Blueberries —.. 35. 
. Boysenberry 1, 40 
Begonia 2. eae 
Calla: Lily eee 29 
Cherries 
Currants 
Dahlias 
Dewberries ae 4| 
Discounts). =o 2s 
Elm, Chinese 19-20 
Evergreens _....... 22-23 
Fruit Trees .2..2csoee 
Pay 7, 30-34, 36, 37 
Fig: Trees i: 17 
Garden Roots _..... 38 
Gardenia. 
Gladioli 
Grape Vines 
Guarantee ___. ee 
Hedge Plants 20 
Horseradish __._.. 
House Plants .. 
Insecticides “222 
Lemons, Ponderosa 
init 20 
Lilies, Hardy 
Magnolias, Hardy . 7 



Mole Killer 
Nectarberry _ 
Nectarine: =.) =a 
Nut Treesse eee 
Orange Plants __._.. 20 
Ornamental Shrubs 
Beedeetgeis te 4.13 
Ornamental Trees. 
rr 57 boa ome 
Peaches 7, 34, 36, 37 
Pealts eee eye, 8%} 
Perennials ___. 24, 28 
Persimmon Trees _..17 
Phlox: 2 ae 
Plum Trees 
Premiums 
Prive baer en 
Ranunculus 
Ra-pid-gro 
Raspberries, Black. 
sce eee 2, 42, 43 
Raspberries, Red_. 
ee 31, 42 
Rhubarb eee 38 
Roses - 22 see eee 14-16 
Shrubs 4-13 
Strawberries _.......... 
Foe ee 34, 44-48 
Terms oe 2 
Trees, Fruit’... 
ae 7, 30, 34, 36, 37 
Vines, Climbing 5, 21 

REFERENCES: 
State Savings 
Bank, 
Bridgman, Mich. 
Farmers & 
Merchants 
National Bank, . 
Benton Harbor, 
Dun and 
Bradstreet’s 


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