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to live and flourish which is destitute of 

 these little fibres. The roots of large 

 trees are mutilated in the process of 

 taking up, while the small trees sustain 

 little injury from this source. Dealers 

 in trees assert that experienced men buy 

 small, thrifty trees, while those who are 

 just starting, are anxious for the largest 

 to be had. Those who are to set trees 

 the coming season will do well to learn 



from the experience of those who, at 

 considerable loss to themselves, have 

 demonstrated that small trees are the 

 ones to buy. The testimony of the fore- 

 most orchardists goes to show that one 

 year old fruit trees will be largei* and 

 more thrifty, as a rule, and come into 

 bearing as soon as those of two, three or 

 four years old at planting from the nur- 

 sery." — Journal of Agriculture. 



OLD IRON-CLAD STRAWBERRY. 



The plants are very vigorous — more 

 so than the Sharpless. The fruit resem- 

 bles the Sharpless greatly in size and 

 shape. It is light scarlet — not as dark 

 or deep as the Wilson. It is five days 

 earlier than the Wilson. Blossoms per- 

 fect or Hermaphrodite. Berries carry 

 well, having shipped it 300 miles in per- 

 fect condition, and selling much better 

 than the Wilson. It stands the drouth 

 perfectly, and is very healthy. 



It is the rankest, healthiest growing 

 plant on our place — even surpassing 

 such sorts as the Bidwell, Sharpless, 

 Green Prolific and Windsor Chief in 

 this respect. It forms the largest stools 

 or crowns, and makes the most fruit 

 germs in the fall of any sort we ever 

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saw. We have grown and fruited it 

 the past season, and in our thirty-Jive 

 yenr-^ experience in growing straw- 

 berries we have not seen its equal for 

 growth and large sized plants, and in 

 this respect it differs and is more dis- 

 tinct from other sorts than any known 

 strawberry. 



A prominent horticulturist of Mis- 

 souri says of it : "■ This strawberry is a 

 remarkable production. Last year 

 scarcely a plant succumbed to the drouth 

 in beds side by side with the Wilson, 

 where not a plant of the lattei- survived, 

 as can be attested by numerous growei*s 

 here. All that is claimed for it is 

 true. The only objection, if it is an 

 objection, is that the berry is too lai-ge 

 and in many cases not as handsome as 

 some berries, as it has the appearance 

 of three or four berries together to form 

 a mammoth in size." — Frtdt Recorder 



