C. S. Perdue’s Strawberry Plant Farm 
STRAWBERRIES 
So far as I have been able to ascertain 
the first strawberries ever grown by actv’ 
cultivation were grown in a garden 
Portsville, just west of Laurel, Del. Th 
were taken up in a wild state and cultivats 
by George and Henry Adams. This wa ; 
about 1860 or 1862, but it was only a few - 
years later when the growth for market 
was begun and the cultivation extended, the 
wild undeveloped plants giving place to the 
improved nursery stock. 
The fruit now grown for commercial puy 
poses is native to this country. The Y,- 
large yield of strawberries on the Maryl¥xy 
and Delaware peninsula and the immeiand #£ 
amount of money realized from the crop 3s? 
suggestive of the introduction and gro «th 
of strawberries in this section for the %ast 
50 years. The strawberry is the finest 
table dessert grown in the world, and from 
a point of size, flavor and luscious pr6oper- 
ties has no superior in the world. Sttaw- 
berries on this peninsula have been the 
most profitable fruit crop grown. 
You may not know that the estimate put 
on the acreage of berries is 125,000 acres 
in the United States, picking annually five 
hundred million quarts, this at {0,000 
quarts per car would make a trajn 300 
miles long. Note the clipping from one of 
our local papers of the amount of straw- 
berries shipped from one shipping point: 
“Immense Strawberry Crop—In this the 
fifth week of the harvest there were shipped 
Tuesday, 199 cars and Wednesday tie ears 
reached the 200 mark. The estimate was 
made that the crop would yield $750,000. 
Some almost increditable stories a. told 
about this Aladdin wealth. Three “one 
