LEAMON G. TINGLE, PITTSVILLE, MARYLAND 11 



Fall-Bearinj^ Strawberries 



AmeTlCUS '^^^ plant of the Americus is very healthy and a strong grower; 

 the berry is medium to large in size, firm, uniform shape, bright 

 red through and through. The plant when loaded with berries is a beauty. The 

 berries have the wild strawberry flavor, and I consider it the best flavored of all 

 the fall-bearers to eat right off the vines but for table use I prefer some of the 

 others. I only have a few thousand of these this spring and will not offer them 

 in lots of over 100. 



Superb ^^^^■) '^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ bear during the first summer on young plants 

 ^ like the Progressive, but the berries will run almost twice as large 



and are as glossy and handsome as Chesapeake and Gandy. Superb will make a 

 good matted row, and the parent plant will bear berries all summer; then the next 

 berry season you can pick a full crop of handsome, large fruit that will sell with 

 the best regular varieties. Immediately after this crop is harvested work out your 

 beds nicely, and by mid-summer they will begin to bear a second crop and will 

 continue to do so until halted by frost. By growing them one summer like other 

 berries a full crop may be picked in the regular season and then a second crop 

 from mid-summer until frost. 



Prosrcssive ^^^^•) ^^^ many years there has been a persistent effort on the 

 ^ part of berry-breeders to secure a summer-bearing Strawberry 



that would bear a profitable crop of berries in the late summer and fall. They 

 have at last succeeded in producing several varieties of this type. Among which 

 is the Progressive, which I consider the best one of them all. It will bear freely 

 the same year it is planted on the young plants made the same year planted. In 

 quality they are of the best, have good color and shape and are about the size of 

 Senator Dunlap, which they resemble. The plant is vigorous and healthy in every 

 respect, and runners freely. If the early summer is favorable and you use the 

 matted row system, by August 1 you will have a bed suflficiently wide to produce 

 a good picking of berries at least three times b. week. 



Strawberries are my favorite fruit, and I can find some good points in all of 

 them but if I could have only one variety it would be the "Progressive." Some 

 others would be preferable as a regular season berry but with "Progressive" we 

 can have berries of good quality every day from May until Thanksgiving day. 



Why Tingle's Plants Succeed 



Our Strawberry plants are taken from young beds, fresh dug before shipment, 

 plants are well-reoted and not dug from old or run-down beds. These plants are 

 from beds that have never borne a crop and will bring you best results. In the 

 fall our ground is plowed to a good depth and then we broadcast stable manure 

 on top of the pbwed ground, then let it stay this way until spring, we then 

 thoroughly pulverize the soil, and at the same time mixing the manure with the 

 soil, by harrowing. After the plants are set and begin to make runners we ferti- 

 lize them with commercial fertilizers, this is repeated late in the summer. The 

 deep plowing with an. abundance of plant-food given the plants causes them to 

 make a splendid growth with lots of long fibrous roots. You need these kind of 

 plants and it will pay you to get them. Which kind of plants had you rather 

 have, plants that have been carefully grown and that are full of life, which will 

 produce big crops or plants that have not been fertilized— plants that have been 

 grown only for quantity without a thought of quality? If you want the kind 

 that will make you a successful berry grower and that will produce you the 

 largest and best crops, plant Tingle's full of life plants — they succeed. 



