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BIGGI/E BERRY BOOK. 



Here is a gentleman who has contributed largely to the value 

 and interest of this book. He was born in New Hampshire on a 

 truit farm, and has been deeply interested in horticulture all his 

 life. He began to grow strawberries as a special crop in 1880, 

 and has continued ever since, experimenting largely and exhibit- 

 J. W. ADAMS ing fruit at fairs in Massachusetts and Connecti- 

 cut, which attracted much attention. He is ardently devoted to 

 his work and his successes have been marked. He is ever ready 

 to impart his knowledge freely to others, and I hear him spoken 

 of as a worthy gentleman, doing a grand, good work, and hon- 

 ored accordingly by his neighbors and all who know him. He 

 lives at Springfield, Mass. Page 14. 



This enterprising gentleman was born in Olyphant, Pa., in 

 1863, and has lived there since. He com- 

 menced growing berries and shipping 

 plants in 1887. Since that time he has ex- 

 perimented largely in berry growing, 

 having tested over three hundred varie- 

 E. J. HULL ties in the past five years. 

 His farm is so situated that he has river bot- 

 tom sandy laud and also upland clay for his 

 experiments. The cause of horticulture 

 has need of many such progressive young 

 men whose honorable record it affords me 

 pleasure to make note of. 



Here is one of the younger fry, having been born in 1863, at 

 Seaford, Delaware, where he now conducts, with much skill, a 

 nursery and fruit farm. He was superintendent of the Bureau 

 CHAS. WRIGHT of Pomology at the Chicago World's Fair, in 

 1893, and has contributed some very practical suggestions to this 

 book. With youth, energy, a quick intelligence, and a strong 

 taste for horticulture, he will be heard from further in the good 

 work he is engaged in. Page 48. 



I am much pleased with this gentleman's contributions to 

 this book they are sincere, honest, intelligent, and of a very 

 practical character. He it is who originated the celebrated Tim- 

 H. S. TIMBRELL brell strawberry. He was born in N. J. in 

 1847. His health failing while in mechanical pursuits he turned 

 his attention to berry culture, especially to seedling strawberries. 

 His home is now in Orange County, N. Y. Page 40. 



E. J. HULL 



