. Whitten's catalogue of small fruit plants, 1902. Nursery stock Michigan Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GREETING N again greeting my friends and patrons I wish to thank them for continued patronage and I sincerely hope that my past treatment of them may have been such that they will feel warranted in continuing the same. I really want to consider my customers as my friends and while I like to make new friends and hope to make sales to many new patrons, I especially prize my old friends—those whose names are on my books for the past six or eight years and I have quite a goodly num
. Whitten's catalogue of small fruit plants, 1902. Nursery stock Michigan Catalogs; Berries Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GREETING N again greeting my friends and patrons I wish to thank them for continued patronage and I sincerely hope that my past treatment of them may have been such that they will feel warranted in continuing the same. I really want to consider my customers as my friends and while I like to make new friends and hope to make sales to many new patrons, I especially prize my old friends—those whose names are on my books for the past six or eight years and I have quite a goodly number who have favored me with their orders for several seasons past. This surely is good evidence that we endeavor to do a square business. If it were otherwise I should not expect nor care for a continuous trade. But I consider a satisfied customer the best advertisement I can have and I also realize that many of my old customers are speaking good words for me and that each season I receive orders from strangers who have been influ- enced by some of my friends in their vicinity. That this is fully appreci- ated I wish them to know and take this opportunity of thanking them one and all for their kindness. My business continues to grow each year, having filled a good many more orders last year than any previons season. For the coming season of 1902 I have a fine stock of well rooted and healthy plants, although the serious drouth of July and August materially shortened the yield with us as with all other sections. Our plant beds from which we dig the stock we ship are nearly all on new land that has not previously grown strawberries. Some may doubt this statement, but it is a fact, and at no time do we attempt to dig off a crop and reset the same season. Where we have to use the old land at all we try by systematic rotation of crops and manuring to bring the soil back to a good state of fertility and also to rid the soil of dangerous disease or insects. I have a large field of
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