WE ARE NURSERYMEN NOT DEALERS 
When you order from us you are dealing direct with the growers. We are farmers, honest- 
to-goodness dirt farmers. We find it a pleasure to improve our methods as we go about our work 
satisfying our many customers. 
It’s our business to save you every cent we can on your nursery stock. It is also our business 
to send you the very best that can be grown. Another part of our business is to see that you are 
perfectly satisfied. We do not care how many plants you can get for a dollar, if they are not good, 
healthy, strong plants or if they do not reach you in good growing condition, you have not received 
your money’s worth and you are not going to be satisfied, are you? 
It is not the number of plants you get, but the quality of the plants that satisfies. Wouldn’t 
you honestly rather have fewer choice plants for a dollar and be perfectly satisfied than to get 
more poor quality plants for a dollar and be bitterly disappointed? There’s a mighty big difference 
between perfect satisfaction and bitter disappointment. When it comes to nursery stock, you can 
buy plants and trees at almost any price, but the stock that will produce the best results is the 
cheapest you can buy. It is always our aim to produce quality stock at the lowest price possible. 
You are welcome to come and see us at any time, you may find us in our overalls pitching in 
right along with our help, but we will be more than glad to take off time to visit with you and show 
you around. We have no white collar men or desk engineers, everyone works at Zilke’s. We live 
with our work, you will find our office and packing house on U. S. 12 highway, 3 miles north of 
Bridgman or 10 miles south of Benton Harbor, the world’s largest fruit market. 
[iT IS EASY TO ORDER BY MAIL 
Dear Friend Customer: 
As this is our only salesman, we again take pleasure in coming to you with this small catalog 
of big nursery bargains. We again offer you the highest quality hardy northern grown stock at 
wholesale prices. Through these annual catalogs and your business with us we feel acquainted 
with you. Whether your order is for $1.00 or $50.00 it will receive our personal attention and you 
will get a square deal. 
You probably will receive a great number of catalogs this spring, listing many varieties of 
fruit of every description, but just remember that the Zilke Nursery is offering only the best of 
each class, the kinds that produce the most and best crops or fruits, that thrive and show the most 
natural disease resistance. Every plant, tree, shrub, and bulb that we offer is State inspected and 
free from disease. 
Varieties are an important consideration in planning either your fruit garden or your orna- 
mental planting. Some of the old varieties are still in first rank, but many must give up their 
places to the newer and finer kinds. We urge you to give the new RED RICH, Jumbo and Armore 
Strawberries, Durham and Black Beauty Raspberries, Giant Red Grape and Paper Shelled Car- 
pathian English Walnut a fair trial. We feel sure you will be more than pleased with the results. 
Here at the Zilke Nursery we utilize every known scientific method of selection, breeding, 
production and protection in shipment that will insure your getting perfect plants in perfect con- 
dition, with strong, fibrous roots for quick, sure growth. 
It will be our constant study in the future, as it has been in the past, to give perfect satisfac- 
tion to our old customers as well as our new ones who entrust their order with us. Our success, 
we feel confident, depends wholly on the satisfaction we may be able to give our customer friends. 
Yours very truly, 
ZILKE BROS. NURSERY 
