Title: Bountiful Ridge Nurseries : your guide to better fruits and more beautiful homes for 1936
Identifier: bountifulridgenu19boun_4 (find matches)
Year: 1936 (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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AN AERIAL VIEW OF OUR NURSERY 3
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Heavy Black Lines Outline Our Nursery The above is an aerial photograph of our nursery in part. It is impossible to show the entire acre- age contained in our nursery and yet make it distinguishable. Here we believe you see approximately 200 acres of as fine a soil for the production of nursery stock as can be found in the U. S. From observation you will see that the dwelling of Mr. Geo. W. Kemp, General Manager of our nursery, and our large storage houses and office buildings are located almost in the center of our nur- sery. These are indicated by No. 1 and No. 2 in the photograph. No. 3 outlines the home of Mr. Ed- gar H. Kemp, Assistant Manager of our firm, near which you will notice a small orchard which con- tains mostly new varieties brought to fruiting so that we may speak of them from first hand informa- tion. This is also true of the small orchard which you will notice near our storage houses. No. 4 in- dicates the home of Mr. Homer S. Kemp, Assistant Manager of our firm. No. 5 indicates a field of 1 yr. old apple containing 50,000 trees. No. 6 indicates a broken block of 2 yr. old apple and some 1 yr. cher- ry and plum. No. 7 indicates our block of 1 yr. old peach trees containing approximately 125,000 trees. No. 8 indicates our peach tree seedling block for this year which were budded during the months of August and September containing about 420,000 trees. No. 9 indicates another field of our 1 yr. old apple trees of various varieties containing approximately 45,000. No. 10 indicates another field of our 1 yr. old apple containing about 45,000 and about 60,000 apple, pear, plum and quince seedlings, which were budded during August, 1935. No. 11 indicates a broken block of 2 yr. old apple trees and cherry trees. No. 12 indicates a block of apple seedlings which were budded this year containing approxi- mately 40.000. No. 13 indicates ground which has been planted to peach seed for seedlings to bud dur- ing August of 1936. No. 14 indicates a planting of approximately 30,000 grape vines. No. 15, No. 16, No. 17. No. 18, No. 19 and No. 20 indicate plantings of evergreens, flowering shrubs, shade trees and roses of various types and species. No. 21 is ground where we will plant over 200,000 apple grafts and seedlings during the spring in 1936. We have been growing stock on the other open blocks and this year planted it to cover crops to improve it so as to get it ready for planting again to nursery stock within a few years. It has been said that the Bountiful Ridge Nurseries do not grow their own stock and that they buy it all. We are giving you the above outline of our main nursery at Princess Anne, Maryland and you can draw your own conclusions as to whether we grow very much stock or not. Our strawberry plants and asparagus plants as well as additional grape vines are grown on neigh- boring farms which have a lighter type of soil on them within a radius of 10 miles to 15 miles of our nursery while other types of stock which cannot be produced to a good advantage in this immediate area we have produced for us under contract and grown under our supervision in other sections where they can be grown to a better advantage. There is no nursery that we know of in the United States that produces all the stock they sell. We believe we come as near to it as any nursery you will find. AVith the principal part of our fruit trees and ornamentals being produced in a concentrated area, there is always a minimum of exposure to the stock while being dug and it reduces our production cost to a minimum also which is one of the big reasons why we are able to offer our products at a fair price and because of the acreage which we have, giving us an opportunity to change from field to field, with our plantings, we can produce the very highest type of trees and plants possible to produce and produce them as free from injurious diseases as it is humanly possible to do so. We invite any one to come to our nursery at any time and give us the opportunity of showing them around and while it is perfectly possible that they will not see the largest nursery in the world, for we have no desire of being that, we believe we can show them as progressive a nursery and as de- pendable a nursery as they can find anywhere in the United States.

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