BERRY GARDENS 



Mrs. Housewife, insist on that 



berry garden! You'll like having 



plenty of berries for all the family to 



enjoy, you'll save on the family food 



budget and you won't mind a bit the 



extra dollars the surplus will bring in. 



Make your own selection of 



varieties or buy from the 



Collections offered on 



pages 4 and 5. They're 



tailored to suit your 



needs. 



From 



From Berry fo B 



They're Beautiful 



Strawberries rank iirst as a fruit crop for the home garden! They're popular. Did you ever know anyone who 

 wouldn't "go for" a big, red, luscious strawberry, or enjoy picking it fresh from the vines in the berry garden? 



Strawberries rank iirst because they come into bearing sooner after being planted than any other fruit crop. 



Strawberries rank first because they ripen earlier in the season than any other fruit — earlier even than most 

 early vegetables. 



Fresh berries from your own garden are appealing to the eye, a delight to the taste, useful as a food, very 

 popular as a dessert and an unsurpassed source of Vitamin C, the sunshine Vitamin. 



Strawberries are enjoyed in so many ways! Fresh from the garden or "sugared down," preserved, canned, in 

 strawberry shortcake, in fruit juices or punch, as a flavoring for ice cream, etc., etc. 



With home freezing unit, frozen food locker, or with Everbearing varieties, the season for enjoying them can 

 be extended indefinitely, as strawberries make one of the most satisfactory of all frozen food products. 



All of the above and more too! As a nice gesture to friend or neighbor, what could be more pleasing than 

 a box or two of sparkling, red strawberries? And if you have a few to sell— they're always in demand. 



New London Co., Conn., March 10, 1947. I would like to brag about the strawberries I 

 harvested in 1946, seeing the way you folks brag about your 1946 Midland and 1945 

 Catskill. From a 600-ft row of Oorsett and Fairfax, I picked 500 quarts of nice, 

 large berries, piled as high as possible. Some of my customers said the large 

 Fairfax looked like large apples. 



Chester W. Krajewski 



Marion Co., Ind., May 1, 1947. I bought some plants from you folks about 6 

 years ago, and I'll never buy from anyone else. I had wonderful success with 

 my first planting of your plants. On less than Vz acre, we ate over a gallon a 

 day, canned about 100 quarts and sold $50 worth of berries a year for four 

 years which isn't bad with anyones plants. 



C. C. Calvin 



Hamilton Co., Ohio, April 18, 1947. Referring to order you shipped me in 

 1945, I want to thank you for the lovely berries we picked in 1946. They 

 were even nicer than the catalog showed. Out of the 150 plants received (50 

 Catskill, 50 Fairfax and 50 Premier) I sold 100 quarts besides, what we used 

 and gave to friends. Would order more plants if we had more room to plant them, 



Mr. L. C. Shirkey 



Shawnee Co., Kansas, Feb. 4, 1947. We have Just a small plot of ground in 

 the back yard and we got 78 quarts of strawberries from our small patch. They 

 were Fairfax and Chesapeake and we think there is nothing any better. We trust 

 that these Fairpeake are as good. I am sending you a clipping from our local paper, 

 •The clipping stated that Mrs. Nauman had brought to the Capitol newsroom a great 

 Fairfax strawberry big as an apple and weighing one quarter of a pound. — Walter Nauman 



