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Marguerite (French). Bright red, regular shape, fair size, good for 

 home marliet. 



Downing's Pride. Orange red, late, beautiful for home market, good 

 shipper, but not vigoi'ous grown on some soils. 



Beverly. Bright red, round cone shape, good flavor, fair average size. 



Lunshire. Large, late, showy red, medium quality. May be good home 

 market berry. 



Sample. Most prolific and promising of 1901 tests, dark red, good flavor, 

 round, and blunt point, medium early. 



I do not recommend any of these except for the qualities stated. I advise 

 those who would go into strawberries to master the literature of the 

 subject, study your soils, study your varieties and adopt such as meet 

 your conditions. 



It is safest and best to buy some plants of such varieties as have the 

 qualities you seem to want, test them, and grow your own plants. Plants 

 from the East are too small to be worth putting out on a large scale. 

 Too many plants are set out that came off bearing stock in field culture, 

 and in violation of the plain fact that you cannot raise a good crop of 

 fruit and plants on the same vine. 



By growing your own plants you can set them out early in the fall 

 under most favorable conditions and often get more than half a crop of 

 choice early fruit off a baby plantation. Set out some new ground each 

 year. Get one or two good varieties and stick to them. Market only 

 selected fruit. Find some way to utilize small and defective fruit besides 

 marketing. 



Co-operate with your neighbors, form a fruitgrowers' union to secure 

 a standard of quality for your section. That is a great secret of success, 

 for having established a standard and maintaining it, that is the best 

 advertisement of your crop and of your neighborhood. The strawberry 

 patch is the connecting link between town and country, between city and 

 suburban homes, the golden road to industrial emancipation for the white- 

 faced inhabitants of rented houses, giving employment to the largest 

 numbers in field and factory, helping the multitude to get and keep the 

 most sacred and beautiful thing in this world — a v/ell-furnished American 

 home, supported by honest, health-giving industry of old and young. 



