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GLEANINGS IN BEE CtJLtURE 



Feb. 1 



Hardy ** Blizzard Belt" 

 Giant Strawberry Plants 



Everybody likes fine strawberries, and to prove that our new 

 GIANT variety is the largest and strongest grower, as well as 

 the heaviest fruiter, we offer to send you TWO PLANTS (worth 

 30 cents) absolutely FREE. We have picked 12 quarts of fine 

 berries from a test bed grown from but two GIANT plants set 

 the year before. You can do as well, and at the same time raise 

 young plants for a new bed. If you care to send 10 cents for 

 mailing expense, we will add 6 BABY EVERGREENS 2 ye?rs 

 old, and send all to you at proper planting time in the spring. 

 It will pay you to get acquainted with our "HARDY BLIZZARD 

 BELT" Trees and Plants. Write to-day and w^e will reserve the 

 plants for you and send you our catalog by next mail. Address 



THE GARDNER NURSERY CO., Box 319. Osage, Iowa 



Tliree rousing big crops of 



SALZER'S 



Alfalfa 



We have sold enough of 

 this seed to sow half-a- 

 million acres and 

 every purchaser 

 has been enthu- 

 sicstic about it. 

 Ex-Gov. W. D. 

 Hoard of Wiscon- 

 sin writes "I like 

 the quality of your" 

 Alfalfa Clover very 

 much. On 30 acres; 

 I raised over 

 $2500 worth of 

 Alfalfa Hay. 

 There is no 

 better money 

 crop that I 

 know of.'' 



You sow Salzer's Northern Grown Alfalfa and 

 get three rousing big crops, in May, July and 

 August, besides having the best of pastures. It 

 will do this on any farm in America where 

 Timothy will grow. Get full particulars. Write 

 for our 1911 catalog. It's free. 



Q 



10 PACKETS OF 

 FARM SEEDS 



10^ 



Here's our great trial collection at one cent 

 a package, composed of Spelfz, the cereal and 

 hay wonder, Silver King Barley, a world beater v/ith 

 173 bu. per acre. Bonanza Oat — swon four farms in 

 1910 -biggest sworn to yield 259 Bushels per acre! 

 Billion Dollar Crass, the ten ton grass wonder, 

 Salzer's luxuriant Alfalfa, and five other packets, 

 all fen for 10c in stamps. Write for this collection 

 today and we'll also send you a free copy of our 

 great 1911 catalogue. 



JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO. 



173 South 8th St., La Crosse, Wis. 



WONDERFUL 

 FALL-BEARING 



Strawberry 



Fruits ill Fall of first year and in Spring: and Fall 



ofsecondyear. Better than a gold 



■nine. 500 plants set in Spring: of 1910 



produced in Aw;., Sept., Oct. and 



Nov. nearly 4H0 quarts, which 



sold at4Uc to 50c per Qt., netting: 



us over S2,0O0 to the acre. 



We are headquarters for these 



plants. Also all other Berry Plants 



- Plum Farmer, Idaho and Royal 



Purple Raspberries, Norwood and 



Early Ozark Strawberries. Hastings 



Potato. 28 years experience. Catalog will be sent you 



free. Write to-day. L. J. F»RMEa, Box 108 Pulaski, N.Y. 



Greatest Of All Berries 



This is the Greatest 

 Berry the world 

 haseverkiiown, 

 discovered in 

 the Himalaya 

 M ountains. 

 Its growth 

 and produc- 

 tl V e - 

 ness Is 

 Biniply 

 marvel- 

 ous. It 

 is per- 

 f ec tly 

 hardy 



?'«ji¥w^J to 5 



'Ci\^NT vWMALAV/i BERRY 



d 

 ws 

 .")o 







feet in a 

 seaso n 

 and 

 can he 

 trained on arbors or trellises of any kind. 



The Engraving sliows one Plant from photo July 1, 

 1910, which is trained to a large trellis loaded with 

 frnit, and continued bearing until October. 



The Fruit is black, almost coreless and the large lus- 

 cious Berries borne in enormous clusters will literally 

 melt m your month. It is unsurpassed for eating 

 fresh, cooked, canned or preserved in any form and 

 is the Greatest of all Berries for all Climates. 



Everybody can and will grow this Great Berry for it 

 Is the easiest Fruit in the world to grow, is splendid for 

 city people or any one with limited space, tor it can be 

 trained up from the ground like a tree producing 

 Berries from 3 to 4 months, growing larger and pro- 

 ducing more Fruit each year. 



We guarantee this the Greatest of all new Fruits and 

 can produce facts no one can get away from. 



Beware of imitations. Giant Himalaya is a family by 

 itself and highly valued wherever grown. The English 

 Himalaya or I'lants raised trom seeds cannot be relied 

 upon for fruit or hardiness. Our plants are from tested 

 parent stock. Complete satisfaction guaranteed 



Insirjictions for cultivation with a booklet 0/ 

 receipts fo>- using' in many luaysfrce with all orders. 



Strong plants 30c each, 3 for 6Dc, 6 for $1.00, 15 for 

 $2.00, 25 for S3. 00, postpaid. 



Our 1911 Catalogue of Vegetable and Flower Seeds, 

 Plants and Hare Ni-w Fruits free witli every order. 

 MILLS SEED HOUSE, Box 45, ROSE KILL. N. Y. 



B GRAPEVINES 



69 Varlettex. Also Small Frntts, Trees, etc. Best Root- 

 ed Stocl^, Genuine, cheap, 2 sample vines mailed for lOo. DeM. 

 price-list free. LB»I8 ROESCU k SON, Box a , Fredonla, N. t. 



Peach Trees 



fine, stocky, hardy, grown 

 on the bank of Lake Erie. 

 Free from borers and other 

 diseases. All kinds of Fruit 

 Tr<'cs in larse supply. Head- 

 quarters for Ornamentals. 

 50 acres in Hardy Rosen, 

 none better grown. The Best 

 Flower aud Vegretable 

 Seeds. 44 greenhouses of 

 Kver blooming Roses, 

 Palms, Ferns, Flctis, Gera- 

 niums, and other things too numerous to mention. 

 Mail size postpaid, safe arrival and satisfaction guar- 

 anteed. Immense stock of SUPERB CANN AS, the 

 queen of beddingplants. Acresof Paeonias and other 

 Perennials. No. 1 Catalog, 112 pages, for Fruits and 

 Ornamentals: No. 2, 168 pages, for Seeds and Plants, 

 Both FREE. Direct deal will insure you the best 

 at first cost. Try it. 57 years. 1,200 acres. (18) 



The Storrs & Harrison Co., Box 1 17, Painesville, 0. 



