TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



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Field of Progressive Strawberries 



FALL-BEARING STRAWBERRIES 



A New Departure in This, the Most Delicious of Fruits. The Fall- 

 Bearing Strawberry is a Decided Success, and Making a Great Hit 



Progressive 



The best of all the fall-bearing to date. I had this variety on trial, and fruited it in a small way in 

 the fall of 1912 and was so well pleased with it that, notwithstanding the enormous price charged for the 

 plants last spring, I bought several thousand of them, and, after fruiting it another season, I am well pleased 

 with the venture. It has usually been considered that fall-bearing Strawberries would not make plants 

 freely and bed up like the spring-fruiting varieties; this theory has been completely knocked out with such 

 varieties as Progressive, Superb and Americus. The Progressive makes plants equal to Dunlap, and carries 

 a load of fruit while it is doing it. It is no uncommon thing to find a cluster of berries, ripe berries, on young 

 plants of Progressive even before they are rooted. We have used the accompanying illustration to show 

 you that the Progressive does make plants. This photograph, taken from some of our beds of this variety-, 

 I am sure will be very convincing on this 

 point. The past August, September and 

 October it was an easy matter to go in 

 my patch of Progressive and count from 

 100 to 150 blossoms, green berries and 

 ripe berries on a single plant. On several 

 occasions this summer, I hav-e had picked 

 two forty-eight-quart crates of ripe 

 berries at a single picking from less than 

 an acre. The quality of the fruit is not 

 ordinary or medium, but is extraordinan.-, 

 ranking with the ver>' best. The fruit is 

 highly colored, being red to the core. 

 The fruit is neither very small nor ven,^ 

 large, but of a medium size, and parts 

 readily from the caps. If not left on 

 too long after it is ripe, it will carry well. 

 I shipped berries to New York the past 

 summer, a distance of 250 miles, and 

 they arrived in an excellent condition. 

 To make a long story short, the fall- 

 bearing Strawberry is no longer an 

 exjjeriment; but, with the advent of the 

 Progressive, it is a decided success, and 

 it is now not only possible but exceed- 

 ingly practical to have Strawberries in 

 your garden from May to November. 

 Many visitors during the past summer, 

 who did not believe that the fall-bearing 

 Strawberry' was a practical success, have Progressive Strawberries. The leader of the fall-bearing sorts 



