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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 manured 

 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 smaller 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 compared 

 to free-growing varieties, but the results are well worth paying a little more in 

 order to get 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 from 

 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 variety, 

 almost always avoids frost because it blooms very late, later than other varieties 

 of the same season. Our attention was first called to this habit of late blooming by 

 Mr. O. M. Taylor, of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station, at Geneva, 

 many year ago. 



8. Canning. When canning or preserving, Chesapeake will retain the shape 

 and flavor as well as Gibson and the other so-called canning varieties. 



9. 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 matured. 



10. 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 prices when many other 

 varieties will hardly sell at all. We are the introducers of Chesapeake and have 

 them absolutely true-to-name. 



Our stock of plants this season is very fine, but our estimates show that we 

 do not have quite as many as we actually sold last year, so we advise those who 

 know they want Chesapeake to place their order before too late. Price-list page 35. 



Aroma. The leading fancy market berry in many sections. Aroma is a vigor- 

 ous grower and very productive. The berries are medium to large in size, rich in 

 color, and of good quality. They have a perfect strawberry shape, the uniformity 

 in shape and color being one of the reasons why they are so attractive. A handsome, 

 bright green cap increases the beauty and selling price of the berries which are very 

 firm and will carry to market in excellent condition. Blossoms are perfect. In many 

 sections where large quantities of berries are shipped, Aroma is the only variety 

 grown. It is a good one to plant with Sample, Big Late and Haverland, and other 

 imperfect flowering varieties of its season. Aroma has made many a dollar for 

 those who grow it, and will, no doubt, make many more. If any growers have 

 tried Chesapeake and can't seem to get a satisfactory fruiting bed, Aroma and Big 

 Late would make a dandy combination to use in the place of Chesapeake for fancy 

 late berries. Price-list page 35. 



Big Late. This is one of the very best varieties on the market today. In vigor 

 of plant growth it ranks high, making strong, healthy foliage which is rather light 

 in color, somewhat resembling the Premier. In productiveness it also ranks at the 

 very top with Premier and Paul Jones. In quality, only the very best varieties like 

 Chesapeake, Wm. Belt and McAlpin, are equal to it. The long, heavy roots which 

 the plants have, make Big Late very valuable in a dry season. In a wet year, the 



