Catalog of C. S. Perdue's Strawberry Plant Farm, Showell, Md. 



Description of Varieties 



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MATTHEWS. ( Extra Early ) . I have not fruited this new 

 variety and will give the originator's description. "I surely 

 think it will prove to be what growers have been looking for, that 

 is, a fancy, extra early berry. Remember this is no second early 

 but ripens with the very earliest and no scrapping here and there 

 to fill a quart as large quantities of fruit ripen at once, in other 

 words, when it begins to ripen pickers must get busy. I have no 

 hesitancy in saying and feel confident that of the many who have 

 seen it fruiting there is not one but what will agree with me in 

 stating that is it truly a fancy berry. This berry has a perfect 

 blossom plentifully supplied with pollen. It is of large size, beau- 

 tiful deep red color with a large, green cap. Immensely product- 

 ive. The plants are large with plenty of dark green foliage. It 

 is a very early bloomer but the bloom must be very hardy as the 

 frost does not seem to damage it to any great extent. I have 

 never had a short crop and berries have always brought the top 

 price in home and city markets. The first picking, May 10th, 

 1915, of ten 32-quart crates wholesaled in the small town of Poco- 

 moke for $5.05 per crate. Eleven cents per quart was the low- 

 est price I received for it in the city markets last season. Note 

 the clipping from one of our local papers. 'The first shipment of 

 strawberries from Somerset County, Md., was from Marion Sta- 

 tion Monday, two crates of Matthews Early grown by Wm. J. 

 Coulbourn sold at station for $5.00 a crate. There are hundreds 

 of acres beginning to ripen their first crop of this early bearing 

 variety. A large crop is expected.' " 



KLONDYKE. (Early). It is a standard variety and a 

 good plant mker which are strong and vigorous and bear a good 

 crop of berries of a bright red color, large size and fine flavor, 

 very firm. An excellent shipping kind that will sell for fancy 

 prices on the market. One of the very best being an all around, 

 up-to-date early berry. For early berries plant Klondyke. 



TENNESSEE PROLIFIC. (Early). Too well known to 

 need much description. A good plant maker. Berries are large 

 of a bright red color and good flavor. One of the old standards. 



SENATOR DUNLAP. (Early). This variety will succeed 

 on almost any kind of soil. Berries good size of dark red color. 

 A good one for the home garden, also extensively planted in some 

 sections of the country. 



