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Title: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes for 1937
Identifier: bountifulridgenu19boun_5 (find matches)
Year: 1937 (1930s)
Authors: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Fruit trees Catalogs; Trees Catalogs; Asparagus Catalogs
Publisher: Princess Anne, Md. : Bountiful Ridge Nurseries
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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2 "HE PROFITS MOST WHO SERVES THE BEST" A MODERN and PROGRESSIVE NURSERY AWAITS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE YOU
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An Aerial view of a part of our Nursery. The larger group of buildings near the center of the picture shows our adequate and modern storage and packing houses, combined with our offices which are connected directly with our packing houses, keeping us directly in contact with every department of our Nursery. No. 1 indicates a part of our Peach Tree block from which we will fill your orders this year. No. 2 and 3 indicate blocks of one year old apple trees which are as fine as it is possible to grow, many of them are from 5 to 7 ft. tall. In these three fields are growing more than 400,000 peach and apple trees ready for delivery to the planters this year and every tree a specimen of vigor and thriftiness. We made our first planting of Nursery Stock in Somerset County, Maryland, in the Spring of 1907. The results obtained from this planting were such that we knew we had ideal conditions to develop the Nursery Business at our new location. Here at Princess Anne, we could grow a fruit tree as large in two years as we could possibly grow it in three years in Pennsylvania where we were formerly located. We could grow it with less fertilization. We could produce a tree or plant with a better root system. We could grow a more uniform growth on our stock, giving the planters a tree or plant each year that would run uniform in size. WE COULD GROW OUR STOCK WITHOUT FEAR OF WINTER INJURY FROM SUDDEN FREEZES AND LOW TEMPERA- TURES. We could produce a tree or plant that would thrive whether it was planted in the Far North or South or West. Our stock grows naturally and with our long growing season it is permitted to mature naturally. Since our first plantings here at our present location we have worked diligently to develop a dependable source to which the planters could go from all sections of the United States and purchase whatever stock we may offer with the assurance that they are going to get 100% value with every dollar's worth of Nursery Stock they might purchase from us. We believe one of the greatest essentials to your satisfaction is the personal supervision which we endeavor to give every Department of our Nursery, combined with our years of experience which we have had in the production and distribution of Nursery Stock. Mr. Geo. W. Kemp, General Manager, of our Nursery, who is now rounding out his sixty-ninth year has given his entire life to the study of producing and distributing Nursery Stock. His two sons, Edgar H. Kemp and Homer S. Kemp have spent most of their years since childhood in the Nursery Business with their father and being directly associated with him over these many years enables us at the present time to produce stock which we know will give you satisfaction in every way, and from the increasing volume of business which comes to us each year from all sections of the United States and Canada, we feel that we are serving the planters in a most satisfactory manner. This expression of confidence on the part of our patrons has enabled us to develop our Nursery to the extent that we are now classed as one of the largest fruit tree growing Nurseries selling direct to the planters through our catalog, that there is in the Eastern part of the United States. The Bountiful Ridge Nurseries has always tried to be in the open in anything they said or did towards their customers. We know that you are often told not to buy that Southern Stock or that Northern Stock. You are often told that you will be treated unfair and that the stock will be inferior in quality or infected with disease which you would receive from us. We cannot always be present to refute these charges so we must tell you of our Nursery and our stock in black and white print so you can read it for yourself and if necessary show it to the persons who make these untrue statements about us. Certainly if their charges were true our sales to the planters would not have showed a constant increase each year until at the present we are distributing nearly a half million fruit trees each vear besides several millions of small berry plants and other Nursery Stock. WE DON'T CLAIM TO BE PERFECT AND WE DON'T SAY THAT WE NEVER MAKE A MISTAKE, FOR IF WE DID, WE WOULD BE TELLING A DELIBERATE UNTRUTH BUT WE DO SAY THAT WE ARE MEN ENOUGH TO ADMIT OUR MISTAKES WHEN WE MAKE THEM AND DO OUR BEST TO CORRECT THEM. WE DON'T WANT TO GET YOUR ORDER BY RIDICULING OTHER NCR SERIES. WE WANT YOUR OR- DER ON THE MERITS OF OUR STOCK AND OUR METHODS OF DOING BUSINESS. The reports of various State Inspectors who have inspected our shipments on their arrival to the planters, show that we are delivering disease free stock. The many fine letters we receive from our patrons in the Far North prove the hardiness of our stock in the Northern States. The results of our st^fc which has been planted in the Southern Districts show it will do well in the South and West.

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