soil and affords nourishment to the plants while the fibrous portion remains upon the surface 

 as a mulch. Ev^ergreen branches are very useful for securing the covering in place and are in 

 themselves a protection. When the plants start in spring rake 



the mulch from 

 off the plants 

 sufficiently to 

 permit them to 

 push through 

 it, and leave it 

 on the surface 

 about the 

 plants to pro- 

 tect the fruit 

 and keep it clean 

 and also keep the soil moist 

 and cool. An application of 

 unleached wood ashes or muri- 

 ate of potash along the rows 

 very early in the spring, just 

 before a rainfall, will be found 

 to increase the size, beauty and 

 flavor of the berries. 



The blossoms of all straw- 

 berries in cultivation are either 

 hermaphrodite (perfect) or pis- 

 tillate " (imperfect) and the va- 

 rieties named in this catalogue have perfect blossoms, except those marked with the letter P, which 

 are pistillate. The pistillate flowers differ from the hermaphrodite or perfect ones in being destitute 

 of stamens, or nearly so : and unable, therefore, to perfectly fructify themselves. It is consequently 

 essential when pistillate varieties are grown, that a perfect-flowered variety be planted near 

 ^ ^ them in order to properly pollenize their blossoms: 



in the proportion of one row of perfect-flowered plants 

 to about every four or five rows of pistillate ones. 

 When thus properly fertilized the pistillate varieties 

 are often the more productive, and there is really no 

 good reason for the prejudice with which some growers 

 regard them. If but one variety be grown, however, 

 it should, of course, be a perfect-flowered sort and not a 

 pistillate one. It is best always to plant at least 



Old and poor plant ; the kind 

 I DO ROT SELL-but 

 some others do. 



YOUHG and good plant ; the kind 

 I send out. 



Perfect Blossom 



Imperfect Blossom 



three varieties — early, medium and late — to expand the season of fruiting to its full limits. 



Westchester Co.. N. Y., March 14, 1907. 

 Middle of November. 1905, I bought strawberry plants 

 from you, but it seems that I had never time to thank you 

 .for the fine plants you sent me. Although so late in the 

 season, I never lost a plant and they bore a fairly good 

 crop last summer, and I am waiting with eagerness the final 

 result the coming season. 



HERMAN GOTHE. 



New York, N. Y., April 20, 1907. 

 I want about 10,000 more strawberry plants, and I want 

 you to help me out in selecting them, say two varieties of 

 5,000 each. I don't care if they are early, medium or late ; 

 what I want is something that produces a Ijig berry and lots- 

 of them and will stand shipping. My soil is a light loam, 

 not sandy, but good and all right. The Gandys you sent 

 me last spring were the finest plants anyone ever saw last 

 fall, and I expect a fine lot of berries this season. 



J. P. NELSON. 



NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



Office of the State Entomologist. 



No. 6-1907. 



New Brunsm'ick, N. J., September 3d, 1907. 



This is to certify, That I have this 30th day of August, 1907, inspected the general 

 nursery stock growing on the Monmouth Nurseries. J. T. Lovett. proprietor, at Little Silver, 

 in Monmouth County, N. .J., and have found the same apparently free from San Jose scale 

 and other dangerously injurious insect pests ; also that the examined stock seemed healthy. 



I further certify, That the nursery has a properly constructed house, 16x10x6.8 feet, 

 for fumigating with hydrocyanic acid gas, upon which I have marked the quantity of cyanide 

 of potassium required for an effective charge. 



This certificate expires June Ist, 1908, and covers only stock actually on the nurseries 

 when examined. 



John B. Smith, State Entomologist. 



