/ r, LOVETT, LITTLE SILVER, X.J. 



LETTER LOVETT. 



Tb€ Latest, the Most Beautiful and the ►lost Profitable Strawberry. 



The Gandv, introduced hy me in 1888, has proved to be the best Strawberry of its class as yet of- 

 fered ; uniting large size, beauty, firmness and lateness. The plant is a strong grower and healthy, but 

 as a rule is not very productivp, and the berries lack flavor. Lester Lovett possesses all the valuable 

 properties of the Gandy with added lateness, is wonderfully prolific and of superior quality. It is a 

 veritable giant in every particular, and is as far superior to the Gandy as is that popular variety to the 

 best late varieties which preceded it. 



Its season is ten days later than Gandy and all other varieties in cultivation, and continues to yield 

 large, fine fruit for two weeks after the last berries of the Gandy have ripened. The berries are globu- 

 lar or slightly conical, uniformly very large and perfect in shape, continuing large to the close of the 

 season; color, brilliant, which they hold better and longer after picked than any other variety I know; 

 exceedingly firm and of high, rich, sweet flavor, with a delightful and decided aroma. 



The plant is simply mammoth, the leaves frequently measuring nine to twelve inches across on 

 stems over a foot long. The berries are produced in clusters of three to ten. on stalks almost as large 

 as one's finger and which hold the fruit from the ground yet beneath the foliage. It is the most pro- 

 digious yielder of any Strawberry I have ever seen — producing more than double the number of quarts 

 of fruit upon a given space than would be produced by the Gandy or any other popular variety. It is 

 entirely free from rust or blight, and the blossom is perfect. 



Best of all, but naturally ( by reason of its great size, beauty, productiveness, firmness and lateness), 

 it is far and away the most profitable of any Strawberry I have ever grown. The past season, the rul- 

 ing price for prime Strawberries in Xew York ranged from five to eight cents per quart, and four to six 

 cents per quart in Long Branch, Asbuiy Park and Bed Bank; yet the entire crop of Lester Lovett 

 was sold, part in Xew York and part in Bed Bank, at twelve to fifteen cents per quart wholesale. 



The above is what I said of this remarkable berry in my catalogue of a year ago. I have little to 

 add and nothing to take from what I said then. All who fail to plant it this spring win. make a mistake. 

 Doz., 50c. ; 100, $3.00; Km, S25.(XJ. 



