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BIGGIE BERRY BOOK. 



This gentleman is an Ohio man born in 1863 on the farm 

 now used by him for a nursery near the town of Bridgeport. He 

 E. W. REID has already won distinguished success in the 

 nursery business. He is the introducer of the Timbrell straw- 

 berry, and the author of many valuable contributions to the 

 rural press, and furnishes some excellent notes for this book. 

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This is one of the best known straw- 

 berry propagators and culturists in the 

 country, living at Cuyahoga Falls, O. He 

 is of Scotch-Irish parentage, born July 5. 

 M. CRAWFORD 1839, and has been grow- 

 ing strawberries thirty-seven years. Few 

 have done more to introduce new and de- 

 sirable varieties of berries than Mr Craw- 

 ford, and he enjoys the confidence of a vast 

 multitude of patrons 



M. CRAWFORD This live Q hio gentleman, who con- 



tributes so intelligently to the interest of this book, was born 

 near Waterville, O. t in 1855, near where he now farms. He is 

 ardently devoted to horticulture, is secretary of the Ohio State 

 W, W. FARNSWORTH Hort. Society and has large orchards, 

 consisting of 2,800 pear trees, 1,500 peach, 300 cherry. 300 apple, 

 1, 500 plums, besides 24 acres of berries He has abundant faith 

 in the business and expects to go right ahead on this line. 

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This young gentleman is getting a good start, considering 

 his name now is widely known as a berry 

 man, while yet he is only twenty-eight 

 years of age. He exhibited sixty-seven 

 varieties of strawberries at the World's 

 L. J. FARMER Fair, and received the 

 highest award for largest and finest dis- 

 play. He was born at Pulaski, N. Y., and 

 still lives there, and carries on the 

 nursery business. He is the author of a 

 little work on the strawberry, which does } 

 great credit to him, being replete with 

 practical information on the subject. L. J. FARMER. 



