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grown. It is valuable not only for a local market desiring fancy berries, but it is just 

 as good a shipper as Klondyke and Missionary and everywhere it outsells all other 

 varieties of its season by more than $1.00 per crate because of its size, quality, appear- 

 ance, and because the buyers know it will ship long distances in good condition. The 

 best safeguard against low prices is to grow extra fancy fruit. If you have rich soil and 

 can grow Chesapeake, they will make their own market. Not more than two years 

 in ten have we been able to grow enough plants of this variety. We are the introducers 

 of this variety and have the plants straight. Place your order early and be sure of 

 getting some of them. Price list page 35. 



Fendall. An imperfect flowering variety that produces a very large crop of good 

 size, good quality berries. They are not firm enough for distant shipping but for local 

 or nearby market the size and attractiveness of these berries make them valuable. 

 Price list page 35. 



Gibson. Berries large, beautiful dark red in color, vigorous grower and very 

 productive. Bears through a long season, grows well almost everywhere and is very 

 popular for canning. Not a shipping berry, but its high quality makes it very good for 

 home garden or local market. 



LUPTON. A large, very handsome berry and an excellent shipper. The plant 

 is a vigorous grower, but requires good rich land to be at its best. The quality of the 

 berries is very ordinary, but the size, attractiveness and shipping qualities make Lupton 

 very profitable as a market berry. For growers who ship fancy large berries, Lupton 

 is worth a fair trial. Price list page 35. 



MARVEL. Another new variety which we fruited in 1923 for the first time. The 

 season was very unfavorable, especially to a variety like Marvel which had produced 

 a very large number of plants. The vigor of plant growth was all that could be desired 

 and the plants set very thicklv on the bed. This condition made the dry weather very 

 hard on Marvel. These plants set a tremendous crop of berries, but they did not grow 

 very large and manv of them did not mature. The showing with us as far as berries 

 are concerned was not very good, but the promise of great crops in nice berries was 

 there if the beds were thinner and the weather was more favorable. We have_a nice 

 stock of these plants and consider them well worthy of trial. Price list page 35. 



Lupton, 1 arge, attractive; and a good shipper. 



