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FALL OR EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 

 They have come to stay 



The fall bearing varieties, as a rule, are inclined to overbear, i. e., yield so much fruit as to weaken 

 the plants. For best success with them, keep the blossoms picked off throughout the first season and autumn 

 and the following year until July 1st. The culture of this unique class of berries, in all other respects, 

 does not differ materially from that of the "June only" varieties. 



Anybody that is fond of Strawberries (and who is not), who fails to plant a bed of these fall bearing 

 kinds is not Hving up to his privileges. They enable one to have Strawberry shortcake in October and 

 fresh Strawberries for thj-ee months instead of four or five weeks only, as in the past. In the space at my 

 command I cannot perhaps "state the case" of fall bearing Strawberries in any other way so well as to 

 quote the remarks of that past master of multum in parvo, the editor of the Farm Journal: 



PLATE OF SUPERB STRAWBERRIES— (photographed Oct. 27)— Courtesy of the Farm Journal 



Mr. Wilmer Atkinson, editor and publisher of the "old reliable" Fann Journal, in writing of these 

 says: "You have heard doubtless of the new fall bearing or rather everbearing Strawberries. A half dozen 

 berry experts have been working over them since they were discovered, ten or twelve years ago. Now, 

 for the first time, the fall bearers are out of the 'freak' class. Now is the time for the enterprising berry 

 grower to study this new discovery in earnest. It is a new industry. It is not for those who jump the 

 fence every time they meet a new idea. It is for the men with open minds, who can think and look ahead. 



"Every household that raises its own berries or has room for a berry patch, can and should have fall 

 bearers. Even in the season of peaches and grapes, the Strawberry is Queen of fruits, as the apple is King. 

 Millions of Strawberry-lovers would eat them the year round, if they could get them. 



"The fall bearers are almost as easily grown as the 'June only' kinds. The Doubting Thomases will 

 pay Uttle attention to this new fruit and promising new industry. They wiU come trailing along in a few 

 years when fall Strawberries are commonplace and the big market profits have all been reaped by others. 

 The open-minded, the thoughtful, the progressive — above all, those who know that what the Farm J ournal 

 is wilhng to recommend is generally about right — these will send right away." 



V / PAN AMERICAN 



Awaraed a silver medal at the Pan American 

 Exhibition. The originator says of it: "A Straw- 

 berry plant that produces a large "and continuous 

 crop of iine Strawberries from August until 

 winter. It fruits on new runners and old plants; 

 is a strong grower that needs no petting, , . . 

 An ideal berry for the family garden," This va- 

 riety has fruited at Monmouth for a number of 

 years, and although the plants have always been 

 healthy and prolific and the berries of good color 

 and excellent quality, they have not been as large 

 as desired; in fact, quite small — and but few 

 runners or new plants were produced. Dozen, 

 $1.00; 100, $6.00. 



Washingto^% D. C, April 17, 1912. 

 The nursery stock by freight, as well as express 

 package, came in best condition; thanks to excel- 

 lent packing. 



W. Va>- Fleet. 



I/AUTUMN (P) 



The freest grower of all the fall-bearing \^a- 

 rieties and the plants yield enormously, espe- 

 cially in Jvme, but being pistillate it must be 

 planted with Pan American or some other fall- 

 bearing variety having perfect blossoms in order 

 to secure a crop of berries from it in the autumn. 

 The berries are nearly round, of good size and 

 very attractive. Not so sure an autumn cropper 

 as Pan American but the berries are much larger 

 than those of that variety. Pot grown plants, 

 dozen, $1,00; 100, $5.00, 



Middlesex Co., Mass., April 11, 1912, 

 The plants came to-night and they are fine, 

 strong plants and it is now up to me to keep them 

 so. They all have fine roots and are just what I 

 always expect to get from your nursery. I shall 

 most likely order again before Avinter, after the 

 land is more clear of roots and stones. 



James S. Worcester. 



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