THE STRAWBERRY FEBRUARY 1907 



The 



FOR 1907 



contains 6 3 

 Specialties in 

 Vegetables, 

 6Qin Flowers, 

 besides every- 

 thing else 

 good, old or 

 new, worth 

 growing. 

 Yon need it. 

 It is free tc 

 all sending me 

 their address 

 on a postal. 



Wm. Henry Maulc y^LT,rhia.Ta^.' 



GOOD 



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 'JAMES VICK'S SONS 



521 MAIN 5T' ROCHESTER. N Y 



"Golden Gate" Strawberry 



Seven ben-if^s made a fpiart It wr,n *"_•;? on 7 quarts 

 at Mass. aoi-ticultural Soeiety in 1906. 



PAN-AMERICAN STRAWBERRY set in MaY 



will produce as niiicli fruir ttn- f..ll<,\vinK Au£.. Sept. 



and Get. as any variety in tlie ^iniiiL' and will sell for 



00 cents per fjuart by tie- naf.'. S.'iid for circuiar. 



S. H. WARREN. Weston, Mass. 



^"'^ BERRY PLANTS 



We are headquarters for plants^ 



of the new "Oswego" straw berry 



and 50 other best new aiid old 



varieties. ALso the "X'lum 



Fannei'" raspberry and other 



desirable kinds of Raspberries, 



Blackberries and other Fruit 



Plants, etc. 23 years experience. 



Highest awardsat World's Fair. We 



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L. J. Fanner. Boi 732, Pulaski, N. Y. 



Let ME Quote YOU 



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 il. C. PHKLPS. Pros 

 Oiiio Carriage Mfi;, to . 

 Station t40 Cincinnati, Ohio. 



said in my renewed confidence, "that 

 never makes the same mistalce twice. 

 Our two acres of plants are mated all 

 right and they are loaded with bloom, so 

 looii out for those big berries this time 

 instead of buttons — we've got the bird in 

 the hand this time sure!" 



And we certainly did. Those vines 

 literally were covered with big red fellows. 

 The first picking filled three twenty-four 

 quart cases, and I loaded them up and 

 headed for the home dealer's who had 

 agreed to sell my berries on a 10-per-cent 

 commission basis. The little boy with 

 his first pair of red-topped boots wasn't a 

 comparison to me that day. Those three 

 cases went like red lemonade at the county 

 fair and at 15 cents a box, two boxes for 

 a quarter. And so did the next picking; 

 but the third day sales began to lag. 

 Covington was a small town only, with 

 four market berry growers, and I quickly 

 discovered that I had made a mistake in 

 depending upon that market for the sale 

 of fruit, when I ought to have arranged 

 with dealers in other towns to handle it. 



I at once wrote a fancy grocer at 

 Indianapolis, telling him about my fine 

 berries, and by return mail came a letter 

 asking for an immediate shipment, and 

 saying that if the berries were as fine as I 

 had indicated, he would be able to sell 

 ten or twelve cases every day. I at once 

 packed with great care five or six cases, 

 and sent them to him. The distance was 

 seventy-two miles and there was no chan- 

 ges en route. I had such boundless con- 

 fidence that my berries would please this 

 dealer and his customers that I did not 

 wait to hear from him, but packed twelve 

 cases more and sent them to the railway 

 station the next day. In fact, I had no 

 time to lose. The berries were ripening 

 by the bushel and had to be disposed of 

 at once. 



Just as the train was due to arrive, I 

 went to the postoffice, and was delighted 

 to receive a postal card from the dealer. 

 "Of course," I thought, "this is an order 

 for more strawberries." But my jov was 

 short-lived. The postal card read: '""t'our 

 berries are choice, but not fancy; don't 

 ship any more!" 



Dear reader, need I try to tell you of 

 my feelings at that moment.? I know I 

 need not, but am sure that you will ap- 

 preciate them and sympathize with me in 

 that moment of disappointment; for few 

 of us pass through life without having a 

 shock of that sort some time. 



Well, there I was with twelve cases of 

 fine berries at the station ready to be 

 loaded and the train pulling in. And 

 back at the farm were two acres more of 

 the beautiful fruit ripening faster than 

 they could be gathered. I was not long 

 in deciding what to do. Running to the 

 station as fast as my legs could take me, 

 I arrived just in time to see my twelve 

 cases of fruit going into the express car, 

 and the impatient locomotive bell an- 

 nounced that the train was just to pull 



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