


OUR OCTOBER MESSAGE 
EVER before have our customers been so prosperous as the past 
season. Again strawberries have led all other crops as a real 
money-maker. Thousands of our customers came back with their 
orders in 1920, and resumed their strawberry planting. Hun- 
dreds have told us of their grand success in growing strawberries. 
For twenty years we have been growing strawberries for market, 
outside our Nursery business, and we have found strawberries 
the best paying crop---not once in a while---but strawberries have never fail- 
ed to be our best money crop. 
As we see it strawberry growing is still in its infancy. Never was the 
future so bright as now for the strawberry growers of America. Prohibition 
has created an enormous demand for fruit juices for Soda Fountain and oth- 
er purposes. Millions of gallons will be used annually for this purpose; 
canning and preserving strawberries as a commercial proposition is fast be- 
coming more important. Large establishments are being built up all over 
the country wherever strawberries are grown in sufficient quantities to war- 
rant the expense to care for the Juice, Preserving, Jelly and Canning of 
Strawberries. These people are willing to contract at very high prices a 
year in advance for their supplies. Not only this, but the city markets are 
improving every yest and higher prices than ever are being paid for all kinds 
of fruit. Our advice again is to plant all the strawberries you can properly 
care for, and to plant the varieties that will yield the heaviest of the finest 
quality fruit. 
We are now offering varieties that will produce more than three times 
the amount ot fruit of some of the old standard varieties, and fruit that is 
by far better quality and will bring double the price on the market. Such 
varieties are Premier, Ford, Dr. Burrill, Howard 17, Townsend’s Big Late, 
Worlds Wonder, etc.. 
We again head our list of standard varieties with Premier, and as we 
stated in our 1920 book, we believe that Premier is the greatest variety ever 
produced. Ford and Premier work together like a pair of twins. In qual- 
ity and appearance they are the same. Ford being ten days later than 
Premier. This pair gives you more than four weeks of the finest berries. 
A trade is easily built up when such varieties as Premier and Ford are to be 
had: You start furnishing the trade with Premier and Ford comes right 
along and holds the trade until the last. Our own profits were around 
$3,000 per acre this season from these two varieties. We can not recom- 
mend them too strongly. Have been tested trom California to Maine. 
As to Everbearing---Lucky Boy is still the choice of hundreds of our 
customers. Not only a big sweet juicy everbearer, but one of the very best 
early June croppers. Size and quality fully equals Chesapeake and more 
productive. No such thing as failure with the crop when Lucky Boy is 



_grown. Progressive continues to be the leader as an everbearer throughout 
the South, and as a family garden variety, easy to grow and a sure summer 
and fall cropper. Nothing gives more pleasure than a few hundred Pro- 
gressive plants in a home garden, and besides this, enormous profits are be- 
ing made from the sale of Progressive berries; always a demand at good 
prices. Some of our neighbors are making right now more than $100.00 
per week from a small bed of Progressives. 
Again we have grown on our Eastern Sho’ Farms one of the finest 
crops of plants. We have had plenty of rain from time plants were set 
until the crop was grown. This means a heavy long rooted plant and that 
the quality will be equal in every way to the very best plants it is possible to 
‘grow. We have made our prices just-as low as we can possibly make them ~ 
and furnish the grade of plants we do, and give the service We try to give. 
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