TRUE-TO-NAME SMALL FRUIT PLANTS 



Progressive Plant at Fruiting time, Oct. 1st. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF VARIETIES 



Every year fins us shortening our list of varieties. We ti-^^ to grow only the best and most 

 profitable varieties for our trade. And when it is known that some varieties are favorites in 

 somee sections of the countiy and failures in other parts, it becomes important for our custom- 

 ers to read carefully our description, or leave the selection of varieties to us. We try to give 

 a true description of each variety as it has behaved with us together with reports from our 

 thousands of customers which are scattered all over the "strawberry world"'. 



Everbearing Strawberries 



— LUCKY BOY (per) 



This remarkable ever-bearing variety is the 

 latest addition to the ever-bearing family on 

 our list. We have tested it for two seasons 

 here on our owm grounds. Was found among 

 a number of seedlings sent to us by Mr. Coop- 

 er, the originator of the first true American 

 ever-bearing strawberry. Excepting the Lucky 

 Strike, this is the largest of the ever-bearing 

 strawberries, and in quality is unsurpassed by 

 any strawberry we have ever seen. We de- 

 scribe it briefly as follows: 



In plant growth it is unexcelled as a rapid 

 plant maker. Plants medium in size when 

 grow^n in matted rows, makes a very bushy 

 plant when grown in hills, plants deep rooted, 

 and stood the very dry weather this season 

 better than any plants on our grounds. Young 

 runner plants began to fruit in a few^ weeks 

 after rooting, if not allowed to make many 

 plants will produce a good crop of fruit the 

 first season plants are set after keeping off 

 blossoms until July as should be done with all 

 ever-bearing for best results. 



It was the spring crop that took my eye 

 the first season. I do not believe that I ever 

 saw plants loaded with more fruit than the 



Lucky Boy had on the spring crop, ripening 

 with the late varieties, and without exception 

 was the finest berry on our grounds. It was 

 compared side by side with Big Joe, Chesa- 

 peake, Gandy, Sample, Kellogg Prize, and 

 many other late standard sorts, and easily won 

 the favor by all who saw them. We believe 

 that if given good culture that it will easily 

 produce 20,000 quarts per acre on the spring 

 crop. And as an ever-bearing variety it by 

 far surpasses the Superb, and such varieties. 

 Vv'e expect to hear great things said about the 

 Lucky Boy the coming season. One man who 

 visited our farms and saw them fruiting, ex- 

 claimed: "It is impossible, what have you done 

 to those plants to make them produce such 

 loads of berries, I never saw anything like 

 them, not room enough anywhere for another 

 berry. How did they ever produce such heavy 

 crop, and grow to this immense size?" When 

 we advised him that they had no extra care he 

 again said "impossible". Xo picture that ever 

 will be taken will show the Lucky Boy as it 

 appears in real life. We have them priced so 

 that all our customers can get a few plants 

 this season and advise them to do so. We have 

 barely touched on its good qualities. 



See Illustration, page 25. 



PARTICULAR NOTICE.— This is the Year to Get The Order in Early. Take No Chances. 



