Strawberries and How to Grow Them 



Oaks l^arly (l*er)— Tliin i8 one of Maryland's bent early berries and Ih a 

 j^ood all around berry. We could say thousands of j^ood things about it. 

 We have 10 acres of tlils'ln young- plants. 



R.ed Bird (Imp)— We quote discription j^iveii l»y orj^inator, and i-ecom- 

 mend all that he sa^'s of it to be true :— 



"This is a valuable new early berry which first attracted my attention 

 ^n Mississippi. It Avas highly recommended to me, and I was induced to set 

 a few plants, and was satisfied from the first that they made a very rank 

 growtli of as healthy and vigorous plants as I ever saw. 1 paid no special 

 attention to it until it came in fruit the past season. It ripened with the 

 Excelsior. By this I do not mean a day or two later, l)ut I mean eciually 

 as early. It is twice as productive, and when I say this I mean it will bear 

 two (luarts Avhere the Excelsior will bear one. It is highly colored, not 

 quite so dark as the Excelsior, and makes a better showing. The l)erries 

 average larger and hold up better. I consider it away ahead of that good 

 old standard market sort. I w^as so well pleased with it when we made 

 the first picking that I telephoned to a friend of mine who lives M) miles 

 away by rail, to come at once and see it. He did so, and he told me within 

 five minutes after he had seen it that he wanted .50.000 plants sure. 



"The berry is very tart, and would not be considered very good eating 

 without plenty of sugar, but as a first early shipping berry, so far as I know 

 of, it has no equal. This is not. a long description, but it gives you the 

 facts as I have seen it, and as the berries have donef(:^r me. After filling the 

 order spoken of I will have probably 75,000 plants for sale, which I do not 

 expect wMll be enough to last me through the season. HoAvever, those Avho 

 order first wfll get them in rotation as long as my stock lasts." 



MEDIUM VARIETIES. 



Par3ons' Beauty (Per) — Pi-oduces remarkable yields of bright-red 

 berries of delicious and mild flavor, Avhich is retained after being cooked. 

 Few varieties equal it for canning purposes. Its seeds stand out upon the 

 surface of the fruit more i)ronnnently than is the case with any other 

 variety we ever have seen, making a striking effect indeed and one which 

 never fails to attract favorable attention on the market. The calyx is 

 rather bushy and the stem is heavy. The foliage is upright in form with 

 a ratluM- darU-grecn and leathery leaf. It is one of the best poUenizers of its 

 season, the bloom luMug extra large and exceedingly rich. The plant 

 makes very long runnei-s. This variety is of universal popularity, sue- 



