TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 9 
Everbearing Strawberries 
Everbearing Strawberries have been produced successfully everywhere the spring varieties are grown. 
They have been tried in every state in the Union and have invariably delighted the grower. Everyone own- 
ing a foot of ground, whether in city, village, or country, should plant some of these. 
There is not the slightest doubt that varieties exist that are really everbearing, producing fruit contin- 
uously from spring until hard frost 
or freezing weather. The plants are 
set as early in spring as possible, 
just like other Strawberries. They 
are hoed, cultivated, and fertilized 
just as other varieties. However, 
for best results the blossoms should 
be kept pinched off until the last of 
June or the middle of July. About 
August I, you can commence pick- 
ing fruit—real, ripe, delicious Straw- 
berries—and continue to get them 
until freezing weather. And remem- 
ber that all this is done the first sum- 
mer, only a few weeks after the 
plants are set. The second year the 
. plants can be allowed to fruit in the 
spring and continue fruiting through 
all the summer and early fall months. 
While the Everbearing Straw- 
berries are especially successful in 
home-gardens, in many sections 
where you have a good market they 
can be grown with great success 
commercially. The greater crops 
come during the months of August, 
September, and October, when the 
weather is usually hot and people 
are willing to pay a good price for some fresh fruit. We have obtained from 18 to 22 cents per quart by 
the crate. 
Many of our customers, nearer the large cities than we are, report 35 to 40 cents a quart for 
their output. Given good land, good treatment, and good growing conditions, each plant (especially Pro- 
gressive) will produce a quart or more of berries. Read about Progressive and Superb and see what they 
have done for others. Then plant some. 
They will give the whole family more real pleasure for the 
money than anything else you can buy, and they are often quite profitable. 
While prices of food are so high, since fruit is necessary for the diet, it will pay you to plant everbearers, 
thereby saving on your grocery bill and, also, you can sell the surplus berries at a profit. Plant this spring 
and have the pleasure of picking berries this summer. 
PROGRESSIVE 
This variety is more widely grown than any of 
the other fallbearers, because it has proved to be 
successful everywhere it has been tried. It is the 
_ leader of them all because of its remarkable yield- 
ing qualities. In fact, it is the variety that convinced 
the doubters. The richer the land and the more 
manure you apply, the more good fruit you will 
get. Give Progressive rich soil. We have shipped 
this variety to every state in the Union and have 
invariably received enthusiastic reports from them. 
There are a few places where Superb seems to have 
a little the best of it and, where such places are known 
by the grower, we would advise planting Superb. 
The vast majority, however, have found Progress- 
ive unequaled and we advise everyone who has not 
tried out the everbearers to try them out now and 
plant Progressive. They should be planted in early 
spring, the same as you would any other standard 
variety; the blossoms should be kept off until about 
the middle of July, and from the first of August 
until freezing weather Progressive will bear abun- 
dantly. The berries are of medium size, possibly 
not quite so large as the Superb, but they are pro- 
duced in such great abundance and are of such high 
quality that they take the lead among the ever- 
bearers. The berries are simply delicious in quality 
and the fact that they come when other Straw- 
berries have gone makes the quality seem even 
better. If kept closely picked, the berries are firm 
enough to stand shipment. (See illustration, fourth 
cover page.) 
Read the experience of some of our customers 
with the Progressive. They are pleased with them; 
so will you be. 
BERRIES UNTIL FREEZING 
Your Progressives which I got from you last spring were all 
right. Kept the blossoms picked till the middle of July and 
had berries all the fall until freezing; even uncovered some 
after the first snow and got a bunch of ripe berries, green ones, 
and blossoms. There may be some out there now, but as there 
is about 3 feet of snow over them, I won’t bother to look.— 
Cuas. G. TOWLE, Penobscot County, Maine, February 8, 1917. 
KEPT IT UP UNTIL NOVEMBER 
Those Strawberry plants I bought of you last spring did fine. 
I did not have one missing, and the Progressive began to bear 
in August and kept it up until November. I think that your 
plants are the best in every way, of any that I have ever seen 
from any nursery.—EDWIN HAVILAND, Harford County, Md., 
March 3, I9I7. 
25 TO 35 CENTS PER QUART 
You may be interested to know that the Strawberries grew 
famously, and the Progressive made quite a distinct “hit,”’ as 
we sold them to auto trade for 25 to 35 cents a quart, up to two 
weeks or a little over, ago. All who have bought them ask us 
to put them down as regular customers and, without excep- 
tion, were surprised and delighted with the lovely flavor of 
the berries. I'll certainly re-order them. Standard varieties 
all grew fine, but especially the Early Ozark and Big Joe, which 
seem to me to be exceptionally big and hardy.—FRED’K A. 
ANDREWS, Morris County, N. J. 
