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our local auction markets, solid carloads of Chesapeake will often bring $2.00 or 
$3.00 per crate of 32 quarts more than any other variety except Gandy, which 
sells with Chesapeake. 
5. Growth. The one weakness of Chesapeake is that it is sometimes difficult 
to get sufficient plants for a good fruiting bed. Unlike Premier, which will do well 
on all types of soil, rich or poor, Chesapeake needs land that has been well ma- 
nured, and it needs good care. Given these, it will produce enough strong, heavy- 
rooted plants for a good fruiting bed. Chesapeake produces a medium number of 
large, strong plants rather than great quantities of small ones. It is hard to get 
great numbers of plants. That is one of the reasons why many plant men do not 
push this variety, and the plants for the same reason can never be cheap as com- 
pared to free-growing varieties, but the results are well worth paying a little more 
in order to get the true-to-name Chesapeake. 
6. Healthy Foliage. Next to Premier, Chesapeake has the healthiest foliage 
of any variety on our list. During the very wet picking season of 1924, Chesapeake 
and Premier were the only varieties we had that were almost entirely free trom 
rust. They both produced a fine crop and were the only ones that did. Big Joe 
and Big Late ranked up well among all the other varieties in condition of the 
foliage and crop produced. 
: 7. Frost-Proof. Chesapeake is almost frost-proof. Premier, an early variety, 
withstands frost on account of its very hardiness and the fact that the plants keep 
right on producing blooms after many have been killed. Chesapeake, a late va- 
riety, almost always avoids frost because it blooms very late, later than other 
varieties of the same season. 
8. Productiveness. The plants are very productive. They do not set enor- 
mous numbers of small berries, but they do set plenty for a fine crop, and for this 
reason they can size them up better and hold the size throughout the season better 
than if large numbers of small berries were set, which are never sized up. 
9. Profit. Chesapeake is one of the most profitable late varieties you can 
grow, and it is equally valuable in the home garden. Being a fancy berry, large 
in size, high in quality, and handsome in appearance, Chesapeake will sell for top 
prices when the demand is good, and sell at profitable price when many other va- 
rieties will hardly sell at all. Read these opinions of Chesapeake: 
Berks County, Pa., Feb. 23, 1928.—About 12 years ago, I bought a few thousand plants 
from you and two years later, I discarded all of my varieties except the Chesapeake. 
I have been rather successful with this variety. I know Chesapeake are the most exact- 
ing in conditions (I would say aristocratic), but that makes it all the more fascinating, 
and then again, you have the best market to yourself and cannot help it—PIERCE 
SCHONOUR. 
Branch County, Mich., Sept. 26, 1928.—Please send me by parcel post. 150 Chesapeake 
strawberry plants. If it happens that you have developed a strawberry that is better 
than the Chesapeake, you may substitute the better berry, but I am exceedingly well 
pleased with the Chesapeake strawberry and doubt whether you have anything better.— 
A, E. ROBINSON. 
Marion County, Ind., Jan. 4, 1928.—Catalog received. Thanks for same. I am now 
past 90 years old, being born July 10, 1837. I am one of the oldest berry growers in 
Indiana. The first real good improved strawberry I have any recollection of was the 
Wilson’s Albany, brought to notice by John Wilson of Albany, N. Y., in 1859. Now 
here, after many elapsed years since the year 1859, comes to our notice its rival, yes, 
more, too. It is the Chesapeake. Tod>y, it stands at the head of the list of all good 
berries. I know what I am talking about when I say to all strawberry growers the 
wor'd over, plant for a late berry, the Chesapeake, and for an early berry, plant the 
Premier. The Chesapeake plants you sent me a few years ago were fine.—THEODORE 
WILSON. 
Somerset County, N. J., Sept. 26, 1928—Will you please send me one of your Berry 
Books. One of your customers, Mr. G. T. Hughes, of Plainfield, New Jersey, is enthu- 
siastic over the Chesapeake strawberry and wishes me to try it—H. A. DURFEE. 
The quality of our Chesapeake plants this year is unusually good, our stock 
about normal, but we almost always sell clear out of this variety, so don’t delay 
ordering too late and thus miss getting some of these ‘‘Aristocrats.’”’ Price-list, 
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