GARDENS . . 
A*dAtottUe4if 
Everyday Luxuries! 
From the standpoint of the amount of pleasure that plenty 
of luscious fresh strawberries will give to every member of the 
family, their tastiness and value as a health food, the prices you have paid for good 
strawberries during the last few years, strawberries certainly rate as a luxury crop. 
Considering how easy and inexpensive it is, both in money and effort, to have 
plenty of these delicious rich red strawberries of your own they should be rated as a 
"must" crop wherever a little bit of land is available, from the smallest city garden to 
the largest farm. 
Strawberries are grown successfully in every state in the U. S. A. It doesn't 
require much space, a plot of good garden soil ten feet square can be made to produce 
from 50 to 100 quarts of choice berries. Few things give the garden-minded a greater thrill than picking and 
enjoying strawberries fresh off the vines. The work is light, easy, and out of doors. Old folks and young folks 
can help without injury to themselves and with gains for family diet and budget. 
With a strawberry garden you do not need to take your vitamins in pills. Strawberries contain some Vitamin 
A and the B vitamins but are an outstanding source of Vitamin C, much greater per unit of weight than tomatoes 
and the citrus fruits. 
The good home-maker finds many delightful ways to enjoy strawberries — fresh from the vines, sugared 
down, preserved or canned, and there's strawberry short-cake, one of the most appealing and popular of all 
desserts. 
With new and better everbearing varieties and methods (see page 28) strawberries fresh from the vines 
can still be enjoyed throughout late summer and fall. 
And with the home freezer and frozen food locker the tastiness and delight of "fresh" strawberries can be 
extended throughout the year. 
Don't delay! Order plants ior your strawberry garden now! They can be shipped and 
set during March and April with excellent results. Previous experience is not necessary. 
Let the strawberry garden be sponsored by father, mother, grandpa or one of the children. Few things will 
win greater approval from every member of the family. Anyone can do the work, everyone will enjoy the results. 
Choose one of our Bargain Collections on page 29 or order one of your own selection after reading variety 
descriDtions. 
Camden Co., N. J., April 4, 1950. We want you 
to know that several years ago we had several hun- 
dred plants of yours and didn't lose one and have 
never seen such wonderful berries. We ate all we 
could and then preserved them and had the most 
wonderful supply. In fact it lasted until the next crop 
c ^ me in Mrs. M. Aeschliman 
Actual Size 
Kings Co., N. Y., Jan. 17, 1950. I want to tell 
you that I had "World Beaters" in 1949, despite the 
drought. I won't say my strawberries were as large 
as pumpkins, shall we say grapefruit, no, good big 
apples would be about it. Even if they were possibly 
short of the largest size of apples, each and every 
friend who visited my place and indulged in a half 
a gallon or so of them (and since then the 200 qts. 
we put in the deep freeze) pronounced them the 
finest they had ever tasted. And it was so! No straw- 
berry that I have purchased in New York within 
forty years even compared with them. 
Allan E. Baker 
