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LOVETT'S NURSERY. LITTLE SILVER, N. J. 



The Van Fleet Hybrid Strawberries 



A Distinct Race of Strawberries 



These hybrid Strawberries are most vigorous and sturdy 

 in plant growth, are exceedingly prolific of very large, 

 unusually beautiful berries, and, what is best of all, excel 

 in high quality, rivaling in aroma and lusciousness the 

 native wild Strawberry. 



They were produced by Dr. Walter Van Fleet, one of 

 the world's greatest hybridizers. They unite the good 

 properties of our best American varieties with those of 



the finest varieties of Europe. Dr. Van Fleet (who was 

 connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture at the time of his death), 

 when living at Little Silver, created thousands of these 

 hybrids in a thoroughly scientific manner, and after care- 

 fully testin'g them sold the entire lot to us. After the most 

 severe trials, we found Early Jersey Giant, Edmund 

 Wilson and John H. Cook to be not only "head and 

 shoulders" above others, but "in a class by themselves." 



EARLY JERSEY GIANT 



Early Jersey Qiant 



The Early Strawberry Without a Fault' ' 

 A Van Fleet Hybrid 



The following is worth reading ! 



Rev. Merritt Miller, Estex Co., N. Y., wrote lately 

 as follows : 



So large and fine it outclasses by far all other early va- 

 rieties. No variety known ripens earlier, and no early va- 

 riety approaches it in size. Besides being the largest, it is 

 by far the finest of early varieties. The very large, bril- 

 •liant scarlet-crimson berries are of simply delicious flavor. 

 So rich is their aroma that a fair-sized dish of ripe berries 

 will perfume a room. The beautiful berries are of conical 

 form, with a pointed tip. Plants are strong growers, 

 heavy yielders. 



Please order early; although we have a wonderful supply of stock plants 

 we feel sure that before the end of the planting season, we will again be 

 "sold out." Dozen, $1.25; 100, $8.00. 



"I tried out the Early Jersey Giant and the Edmund 

 Wilson a few years ago. They are fine berries. I want to 

 put out a bed in August and want to put out potted plants. 

 The Early Jersey Giant is a fine early berry, the earliest in 

 this section where I grew them (Dundee, N. Y.) and the 

 largest early berry I have ever seen.' The Edmund Wilson 

 is a fine rich-flavored berry." 



Come to Specialists in 

 Plant Production 



This is truly an age of specialists, and in no other line 

 of human endeavor is it either so worth while or desirable 

 to specialize as in the field of horticulture. At best a man 

 can learn to do but few things well during an ordinary 

 lifetime and when the founder of this business, back in 

 1877, became the pioneer in growing Pot-grown Straw- 

 berry plants, he started specializing in a field but little 

 explored up to that time. 



There is as great a difference in the quality of Pot-grown 



Strawberry plants as there is in any other merchandise. 

 Is it not logical to assume that the house which has prac- 

 ticed the producing of certain types of plants the lonj^est 

 should also be more skillful in the carrying out of the 

 work ? Here at Little Silver we grow each' year approxi- 

 mately half a milljon pot-grown plants and rare, indeed, 

 are the instances when these plants do not measure up to 

 the highest expectations and produce the greatest degree 

 of satisfaction. 



