Skating and Picking Strawberries. 



Hyde Park, New York. 

 To the Editor : 



You ask in Tiik 

 Guide; to Nature 

 who has had ex- 

 erience with "ever 

 bearing"' strawber- 

 ries. Let me give 

 mine. 



About three years 

 ago T purchased a 

 number of varie- 

 ties of the so-called 

 a.t.cook "everbearing" 



strawberries, and 

 set them out side by side in mv garden. 

 One variety proved so far superior to all 

 the others that there was simply no com- 

 parison, and I quickly removed the 

 poorer ones. 



This variety was the "Progressive." 

 The plants set out in the spring bore 



enormously from July into November. 

 Indeed, I picked ripe berries as late as 

 December 8th, and left green ones and 

 many blossoms still on the vines. Their 

 hardiness is truly wonderful. Think of 

 it ! Persons skating on the lakes and 

 at the same time I was picking straw- 

 berries. I send you a photograph of 

 one of the plants set out in the spring. 

 I picked forty big, ripe berries from it 

 on October 15th, the day on which the 

 photograph was taken, and counted 

 sixty-nine green berries and numerous 

 blossoms. Hundreds of the other 

 plants were just about as good. Please 

 remember that these plants had been 

 bearing since July. 



The hardiness of the Progressive al- 

 most surpasses belief. Last season I 

 set nine plants in a box of earth raised 

 above the ground. I put no covering 

 of any kind on them in the fall, for I 

 had no thought that it was possible to 

 save them in such an exposed position, 

 but seven wintered safely and bore 

 abundantly during the season. Could 



THE ASTONISHING "PROGRESSIVE" STRAWBERRIES. 



