TRUE-TONAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



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CHESAPEAKE 



"This is the berry that 

 brings the monev." So 

 said Mr. W, 0. Davis, of 

 the commission house of 

 W. O. & H. W. Davis. 

 New York City, this 

 spring when walking over 

 our young Strawberry 

 beds. Chesapeake is the 

 most popular fancy mar- 

 ket berry in America to- 

 day and we are justly 

 proud of being its intro- 

 ducers. We have enough 

 praises of the Chesapeake 

 berry from our customers 

 to fill this book from 

 cover to cover. The value 

 of the berry is told in the 

 continued increase of sales 



after people have seen it in fruit on their own soil. 

 Chesapeake does not make as many plants as some 

 other varieties and, therefore the plants will never 

 be cheap as compared with such varieties as Senator 

 Dunlap and Klondyke. With fair growing con- 

 ditions just about enough plants are produced for a 

 good fruiting bed. Many of the largest growers in 

 the country are using Chesapeake for their main 

 crop and they are amply justified in doing so. The 

 foliage is very strong and healthy; we do not 

 remember ever seeing a bit of rust on it. The plants 

 are very strong and robust and have very long roots 

 which make it one of the best drought-resisters. 

 The shape of the berry is seen in the accompanying 

 photograph. They are uniformly large, with promi- 

 nent yellow seeds and an attractive, bright green 

 cap, altogether making Chesapeake one of the most 

 beautiful and attractive berries in the package that 

 we have ever seen. The berries are unexcelled in 

 quality, equaled only by 

 a few varieties, such as 

 McAlpin and Wm. Belt. 

 The Chesapeake does not 

 set an extraordinarily 

 heavy crop of fruit; it 

 does set a good crop. 

 And the valuable 

 thing about it is 

 that even' blossom 



Fancy Chesapeake berries on the farm of Miles Rausch, Union Co., N 



matures a berry and the last ones are almost as 

 large as the first. The flesh is very firm in texture 

 and the berries will keep for many days in perfect 

 condition, so that altogether it is an ideal berry for 

 home use, for local market, or for distant shipment. 

 Often new berries are reported to "sell as well as 

 the Chesapeake," the inference being that no higher 

 recommendation was necessary. The fruit is borne 

 on heavy stems which hold it well off the ground. 

 One of the most valuable features of the Chesapeake, 

 especially in the North, is the fact that the blossoms 

 do not start out until very late, which makes it 

 practically frost-proof. In many sections growers 

 report a full crop of Chesapeake in years when most 

 other varieties have been killed by the late frost. 

 Read what others say about it. "The plants were 

 particularly good, especially the Chesapeake and 

 Glen Mary. The former is considered the best 

 Strawberry' grown in this neighborhood" says Mr. 

 A. C. Davis, of Chautauqua County, New York. 

 Mr. C. C. Hough, of Kay County, Oklahoma, says: 

 "The plants I purchased of you last fall were so nice 

 and arrived in such excellent condition that 

 I must have more from your gardens. Chesa- 

 peake is certainly the ideal 

 berry for this climate. It is the 

 only plant I had that 

 withstood perfectly the 

 long-continued drought of 

 last year in 

 Oklahoma. It 

 stood up and 

 grew when al- 

 most all of the 

 other kinds I 

 had burned up. 

 This year we 

 had excessive 

 rainfall during 

 fruiting season 

 and while all 

 other kinds I 

 had rotted on 

 the vines, Chesa- 

 peake bore right 

 along and I did 

 not find a rotten 

 berry in the bed. 

 It is a vigorous 

 plant, and the 

 berries it pro- 

 duces are deli- 

 cious. My plants 



Chesapeake. Stands out among the few kinds at the top 



