Fresh Strawberries All Season 
In the Family Garden nothing equals strawberries as a crop for pleasure, health 
and usefulness. 
Pleasure? Sure! The work itself is pleasant and there is beauty in the growing 
plants with their healthy, green foliage and the profusion of white blossoms. Later on 
the luscious red berries will be a delight to all the family and their friends of all ages. 
Health. Strawberries are a source of health. It may be in the stimulation of a 
little garden exercise; or in the fresh air one gets even when just "grabbing a bite" 
from the vines between meals; or in the food and vitamin value of the berries themselves. 
Usefulness. Fresh strawberries, shortcake, ice cream, fruit juice, canned and 
preserved for winter use. The strawberry garden is a real reducer of the family budget, 
and a dependable source of extra money which we tell about on the next page. 
With Everbearers like Gem and Mastodon, the joys and uses of the Berry Garden 
can be extended all through late summer and fall until freezing weather. Even after 
"the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock". 
Read the letters on these pages from regular folks just like you, who are making 
good with Family Berry Gardens and small Profit Plots. 
Could Have Sold More Every Day 
Clarion Co., Pa. March 14, 1938. The strawberry 
plants I purchased from you were without a doubt 
the finest berries we ever saw. I really never knew 
berries grew so large. They were the Fairfax. It 
surely was remarkable how many I sold although when 
purchased were intended just for our own use. The 
ground was well prepared and the weather was ideal 
for starting them. There wasn't a day while the 
berries were bearing that I could not have sold more. — 
Mrs. Harry Smith. 
Berries to Sell 
Raleigh Co., W. Va. May 5, 1938. Last year I 
bought five hundred plants from you folks and this 
year I have strawberries everywhere. I have far more 
than I will be able to use for myself and I want to 
know where I can buy quart boxes so that I may sell 
the extra straw-berries. — Mr. Otto Bergner. 
A delightful way to 
finish a meal. 
All the Family Could Use 
Abbeville Co., S. C. Feb. 8th, 1938. In February 
1935 I ordered 25 Dorsett and 25 Fairfax from you. 
My 1936 crop surpassed anything I have ever seen. 
I picked from 12 to 15 quarts of berries every morning 
for several weeks and then more than the family 
could use for about four weeks. Words are inadequate 
to express my praise for size, beauty and lusciousness 
as well as quantity produced. I have given your 
address to a number of canners in North Carolina. — 
Mrs. G. E. Calvert. 
Unbelievable Amount of Fruit 
Cumberland Co., Pa. January 7th, 1938. I am en- 
closing a picture of my father-in-law, Newell P. Wilson 
of Cumberland Co., Pa. standing in his patch of 100 
Catskills and 50 Fairfax. He cultivated them by the 
hill method. Many of these plants were knee high 
and bore an unbelievable amount of fruit. The entire 
patch bore 93 boxes piled 
as full as they could be car- 
ried into the house. Would 
have made many more if 
measured by level boxes as 
sold in markets and was he 
pleased with the berries? 
Quite a few measured up to 
2% inches across. — Mr. 
Creedin S. Kruger. 
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