Let Us Take A Little Trip 

 Together Through This Book 



And View The Grand Varieties Just As We Would 



Do Were It Possible For Every One Of Our Good 



Customers To Visit Our Plant Farms During The 



Fruiting Season. 



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LSO LET US STOP once in-a-while along the way and read 

 the very kind letters that our good customers send us in ap- 

 preciation of our services and our high grade plants. 



First I want to tell you how the season has been with us. In 

 many respects 1924 has not been the best for all crops. A cold, wet 

 spring delayed planting which necessarily has caused a reduction 

 in the acreage of spring set crops. We learn that this was the gen- 

 eral condition over the larger part of the United States. 



We harvested the largest crop of strawberries last spring that 

 we ever did and received a fair price for them. Making the straw- 

 berry crop again our very best money crop. 



As to our present crop of plants. When I tell you that we have 

 the Best crop of plants that we have ever produced, I mean this 

 in Quality and not Quantity. We have about 65 per cent of a crop 

 of strawberry plants. Our acreage cut 25 per cent as stated above 

 owing to the very late season. This cut in acreage gave us more 

 time to spend on what we did plant. From the time our plants 

 were set out until the present time which is October 1st, they have 

 never stopped growing, and never needed for cultivation or plant 

 food. Our plants are just thinly set in the beds, and finer, health- 

 ier plants will never be grown than our present stock. Despite this 

 small crop in quantity we are holding our prices almost in line with 

 last season when we made you the lowest prices we had been able to 

 do in many years. This year we offer you considerable more in val- 

 ue for every dollar sent to us than we have ever been able to do be- 

 fore. 



As we take up the different varieties in which we are listing, 

 it is naturally supposed that I want to talk about my own favor- 

 ites first. Most of them are also the choice of the great majority 

 of my customers. Just a few we are introducing for the first time, 

 but are well known to us and are each one sent out on our broad 

 Guarantee that they prove on your own grounds as represented or 

 your money back. We realize that there is no variety that does 

 the best in all sections. If they did there would be much fewer va- 

 rieties on our list. Many of the old time ones are carried just in 

 order to please our customers in some sections where they have 

 proved over a long time to be better than all others tried. I have 

 always insisted on the trial plot of strawberries for every market 

 gardener, and commercial grower. As it is in this way by testing 

 out all the new creations in a small way that we are able to keep 

 up with the procession in our line of industry. It will always pay 

 you well for the small investment vou make. 



