STRAWBERRIES 



If to be sent by mail, add 25c. per 100 to prices quoted, for postage, Strav/berry plants '.vill be sent by 

 mail at dozen rates, if desired. 



LATE JERSEY GIANT. The Finest and Best Late Strawberry. 



Unless pot grown plants are employed, autumn is not, in my opinion, the Lett season for planting 

 Strawberries, except at points south of the latitude of Baltimore, Md. At the north, early spring 

 plantings, as a rule, are more sucessful than those made in ^ne fall. If, however, the worii is done 

 carefully and protection given, there will be but few failures even with fall set plants; and a par- 

 tial crop of berries will be obtained the first season. 



For field culture, to be worked by horse and cultivator and to Ije permitted to form matted rows, 

 plant in rows three feet apart and plants one foot distant in the rows, rerjuiring 14,.!)20 plants per 

 acre. In gardens to be cultivated with hoe and rake, plant in rows two feet apart and plants fifteen 

 inches apart in the row— keeping the plants restricted to hills by removing the runners as they appear. 

 When planting, shorten the roots to about four inches and expose them as little as possible to wind 

 and sun. Place the plants in the earth but a very little deeper than they were before dug, but be 

 sure to press the earth firmly about the roots At approach of winter, cover the entire bed with salt 

 meadow hay, strawy-manure or other loose liglit material to be partially removed in early spring. 



The blossoms of all varieties in cultivation are either hermaphrodite fperfectj, or pistillate (imper- 

 fectj, and the varieties in the list have perfect flowers except those marked with the letter P, which 

 are pistillate. It is well to plant at least three varieties — early, midseason and late — that there will be 

 a long season of fruit. 



THE VAN FLEET HYBRID STRAWBERRIES 

 EDMUND WILSON, EARLY JERSEY GIANT, LATE JERSEY GIANT 

 The Berry Marvels of the Age. 



EDMUND WILSON Van Fleet 



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A strikingly unique variety. The plants resemble 

 potato vines in size and vigor, the berries are as 

 large as small apples. Form globular or bluntly 

 heart shaped, of deep maroon color with smooth 

 surface and quite firm. Perhaps the richest in 

 }?ugary lusciousness of all— indeed a marvel in size 



and high quality. Upon good soil the plants attain 

 a height of twelve to fifteen inches with a spread 

 of fully a foot and are enormously prolific. Ripens 

 in midseason to late. 



Hon. Edmund Wilson is the Attorney General of 

 New .Jersey, and will soon be President of the 

 United States, or ought to be. He is another Lin- 

 coln—a marvel of the age — and I can think of no 

 other name so appropriate for this berry. Dozen, Si. 50; 

 100, $10.00. 



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