LATE JERSEY GIANT — Van Fleet No. 14, . For description see below 



EDMUND WILSON— Van Fleet 

 No. 13 



Xow first offered. See illustration, page 4. 



A strikingly unique variety. The plants re- 

 semble potato vines in size and vigor, the ber- 

 ries are as large as small apples. Form globular 

 or bluntly heart shaped, of deep maroon color 

 with smooth surface and quite firm. Perhaps the 

 richest in sugary lusciousness of all — indeed a 

 marvel in size and high quality. Upon good soil 

 the plants attain a height of twelve to fifteen 

 inches with a spread of fully a foot and are enor- 

 mously prolific. Ripens in midseason to late. 



Hon. Edmund Wilson is the Attorney General 

 of Xew Jersey, and will soon be President of the 

 United States, or ought to be. He is another Lin- 

 coln — a marvel of the age — and I can think of no 

 other name so appropriate for this berry. 



Pot-gro^^-n plants, dozen, $2.00; 100, $i2.00. 



EARLY JERSEY GIANT— Van Fleet 

 No. 10 



Ripens with the very earliest, with St. Louis, 

 Early Ozark, etc. Berries very large, brilliant 

 scarlet-crimson, conical with pointed tip, colors 

 all over at once, has delightful aroma and rich, 

 mild wild Strawberry flavor. Large light green 

 calax or ''burr," hence exceedingly shoAvy and 

 attractive. Blossoms large, open, rather late and 

 staminate. Plant a strong grower with large 

 leaves on long pliant stems and a hea.vY yielder. 

 The largest and best very early variety. See illus- 

 tration, page 6. 



Mr. Frank P. Jones, of Burlington County, Xew 

 Jersey, a strawberry grower of long and wide 

 experience, on May l2th wrote •'Tn October last 

 (1912), I received from you some strawberry 

 plants of Early Jersey Giant and Late Jersey 

 Giant. I picked some ripe berries from the Early 



Giants on Monday, May 12th, the same day I 

 picked the first St. Louis. The Early Giant ber- 

 ries were as large as Fairfield Giant and a week 

 earlier. As an early berry, the Early Jersey Gi- 

 ant IS in a class hy itself." Mr. Chas. E. Wickes, 

 of Dutchess County, Xew York, says, "The Early 

 Jersey Giant is a valuable acquisition to th« 

 strawberry world. It is a full week ahead of 

 anvthing else I have." 



Pot-grown plants, dozen, .$L2.5: 100, 88.00. 



LATE JERSEY GIANT— Van Fleet 

 No. 14 



A very late variety and the largest and best 

 late Strawberry. It undoubtedly has blood of 

 the Gandy in it, but it is superior to that grand 

 old variety in every way — the berries being larger, 

 infinitely superior in quality, even more brilliant 

 in color, more beautiful and produced in far 

 greater numbers. The berries are of immense size 

 — truly mammoth — heart shaped with broad blunt 

 apex and exceptionally uniform in shape and 

 size; surface smooth and glossy, bright flame- 

 color, meaty texture (the berries do not bleed 

 when handled as do those of other varieties) — 

 quality mild, rich and sweet ^^ith the flavor and 

 aroma of the wild berry very pronounced. Calyx 

 bright green and unusually large — like the Gandy 

 but larger. I regard it as the most beautiful 

 Strawberry I have ever seen. Blossoms appear 

 late, are very large, strongly staminate and are 

 held above the foliage. Plant of large proportions 

 with large rather light green leaves held upright 

 on stiff stems. The berries are produced in clus- 

 ters of six to a dozen, are usually held from the 

 earth on remarkably large, strong fruit stalks. 

 The yield is enormous — so great in fact, that at 

 the height of the season one can pick ten quarts 

 without stopping. 



Pot-grown plants, dozen, $1.25; 100, $8.00. 



