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it. With me. the past season, it yielded at the rate of 100<[) quarts per acre at a 

 single picking on light soil only medium in fertility and without manure. I 

 do not hesitate to recommend it as one of the best berries ever put on market. 



A Worcester Co. (Md.) nurseryman speaks of it as follows: **I saw the Enor- 

 mous in fruit this season: it was the best in a field of more than 60 varieties and 

 while most other varieties rusted badly, this showed no sign of rust. Berries 

 were hanging in large clusters in matted beds. I consider Enormous equal to 

 the best I ever saw and I have been fruiting all the best kinds introduced for 

 over thirty-five years." 



©The Rural New Yorker speaks of it as follows: ''In so far as may be judged 

 from spring set plants this is well named. It seems among the earliest. Shape 

 very variable, between scarlet and crimson in color, firm and good quality. A 

 promising early variety. 



IT.Ed. Henon of Barry county, Mo., says that ''of 26 varieties fruited on my 

 place Enormous was in the lead. It has fruited for me two years and in my 

 23 years of experiance in strawberry growing I have never seen its equal. 



WM. BELT — "Six years ago the late Wm. Belt of Williamsburg, Ohio, 

 sent this variety to me on trial, claiming it to be larger than Bubach, twice as 

 productive and of much better quality, I purchased the entire stock and now 

 offer it as a variety of great merit. It has been tested in many places and has 

 never failed to my knowledge. I could furnish many testimonials had I room 

 to publish them. The plant is large and healthy, a luxuriant grower and very 

 productive: blossom perfect. The iruit is the largest I ever saw. On more than 

 one occasion I have had 12 berries that made a quart. The first berries that 

 ripen are apt to be coxcombed but all the others are regular conical form, It 

 colors all over and is as red and glossy as any in cultivation. It is as firm as 

 other berries and among the best in quality. "* M. Crawford. 



"Berries large, conical, rather long, regular in outline, bright red, glossy, 

 quality good, moderately firm, plants vigorous, healthy and quite prolific. 

 This is one of the most promising varieties ever bested at the station. In size 

 and general appearance it compares favorably with the Marshall, but holds out 

 better toward the end of the season and gives a greater number of large berries 

 It has been tested two seasons here and the Marshall only one, hence an opinion 

 as to relative value here would be premature. The Marshall has pretty 

 generally been accorded a high place and the probability is that Wm. Belt will 

 take about the same rank."* Ohio Experiment Station. Oct. 1894. 



My stock came direct from Mr. Crawford at a cost of 810 per dozen. I have 

 not fruited it yet, but my plants can't be beat. They have made a wonderful 

 growth. Try a dozen. 



BOUNCER— This is the big fellow which Hale Bros., paid my father (A. J. 

 Allenj 850 in gold for naming. I procured several dozen of these plants from 

 the Messrs. Hale last spring at a cost of 85 per dozen. These costiy plants 

 have had a very soft well made bed and have been fed as liberally as a pet pig. 

 They have responded wonderfully to this treatment and I have several thou- 

 sand large, healthy, well rooted plants to offer my customers by the dozen and 

 hundred at one fifth the price I paid. I have not fruited the Bouncer yet ex- 

 cept on spring set plants. On these the fruit was very fine and I have no doubt 

 this berry will prove a valuable acquisition. 



'S*Z Hale Bros, describe the "Bouncer"* as follows: "A lady walked into our 

 office one day last June with a basket of the largest strawberries we had ever 

 seen; told us picking had been going on two weeks and these were not the larg- 

 est.^ Two or three days later we visited the plat and found the vines still loaded 

 with enormous sized berries of the Minor type, but many times larger than that 

 variety. Not only big but a great yielder and fine quality. Plants stood a 

 foot and'a halfjhigh.*" 



Our plants of this variety will please all who see them. No one has better. 



