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markets where the shipping distance is not too great, Big Joe is one of the best 
money-makers we have. Locally, it comes in with fine, handsome berries just as 
many of the early varieties are beginning to run down, and brings a premium of a 
dollar or two per crate on anything then being offered. The plant is a vigorous 
grower, very healthy and very productive. The berries are large in size and havea 
large, bright green cap which increases its attractiveness. They are, also, very fine 
in quality. Market gardeners who retail their berries, those who sell at the farm 
or on roadside markets, or, in fact, anyone who can get a premium for large, hand- 
some, high-quality fruit should include Big Joe in their plantings. The blossoms 
are perfect, which makes it valuable to plant with such varieties as Haverland, 
Paul Jones, Big Late and Sample. A selection of Premier, Big Joe and Chesapeake 
for early, medium and late would be a definite step in the right direction for get- 
ting pleasure and profit out of your strawberry patch. Price- list, page 35, 
ABERDEEN. We have not fruited this variety, but Mr. J. E. Kuhns, one of 
the original growers from whom we obtained our stock, says of it: “The Aberdeen 
is a staminate variety—a very free plant maker. ‘Midseason—long season— 
healthy foliage. Fruit: medium to large, attractive, good flavor, medium i in firm- 
ness. Very productive. At the New Jersey Experiment Station, and also at the 
Sub-Station, it out-yielded Howard 17. It is supplanting Big Joe ‘and Howard 17 
in this vicinity mainly because of its great productiveness. This variety was never 
formally introduced. I preferred to let it spread on its merits. It is gaining rapidly 
in reputation.”” With us it is certainly a vigorous, healthy grower and appears 
well worth trying. Price-list, page 35. 
EATON. A large, good quality, irregular-shaped berry, attractive in appear- 
ance and firm in texture. The plants are healthy and vigorous, and very pro- 
ductive. Seems worthy of more general use, but growers haven’t ‘‘taken to” it as 
a rule. Possibly they feel “‘what’s the use’’ when other varieties of same season 
are so much better? Frankly, we wouldn’t plant Eaton with varieties like Big 
Joe and Big Late available. Price-list, page 35. 
GLEN MARY. Old standard variety, well and favorably known to many 
commercial strawberry growers in the North. A vigorous grower, producing large 
crops of good-sized, irregular shaped berries. Glen Mary has many times pro- 
duced as much as 10,000 quarts per acre under good conditions. It does not do 
well in the South on account of leaf spot or rust. Price-list, page 35. 
HAVERLAND. Is one of the best of all the old standard varieties. There are 
very few that equal it in productiveness. The blossoms are imperfect and exceed- 
ingly hardy, making it very desirable where late frosts are likely. We have found 
Big Joe and Eaton the best varieties to plant with Haverland as pollenizers. The 
berries are large size, long conical in shape, rather light in color and firm enough 
to stand shipment moderate distances. The plants should be well mulched if pos- 
sible, as the fruit stems are not able to hold the great crops of berries off the 
ground. This variety has proven very profitable with many customers. One cus- 
tomer tells us that he regularly makes over a thousand dollars per acre growing 
Haverland, because of its great productiveness and because the berries sell at a 
premium over other varieties on his market. Haverland is mostly grown by ex- 
perienced strawberry growers. We have a fine stock of plants for them or any 
others who want to try it. Price-l st, page 35. 
PAUL JONES. Vigorous plant grower and very productive. Berries medium 
in size, long, conical in shape and dark red in color. The berries are fairly firm in 
texture and of medium quality. Paul Jones will produce tremendous crops of 
fruit, probably more than any variety we have except Premier. In spite of this, 
however, we believe the greatest satisfaction and profit is to be had with the 
larger, firmer berries such as Premier for early, Big Joe for mid-season and Chesa- 
peake, Big Late or Wm. Belt for late. We have a nice stock of Paul Jones plants 
and they sure do bear. Price-! st, page 35. 
