TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



Tj 1 1 (Colossus). This grand old variety has 

 OUDaCD bepn on the market now for about 

 thiny years, and does not seem to have lost any 

 of its original Nngor; for a large crop of big berries it 

 is hard to equal. \\'e have heard some complaint 

 about its not making enough plants, but our land 

 seems peculiarly adapted to it, and we have seldom 

 had any trouble in getting all the beds that could 

 be desired. It is not unusual for our beds to be 

 thick-set, 2 feet wide, and we believe our strain of 

 this variety is as good as the original stock was 

 thirty- years ago. \\'e always have a big demand 

 for Bubach, and, probably owing to our superior 

 strain of this \-ariety, we seldom fail to sell all the 

 plants we have. We have nearly 400,000 plants 

 this season and hojje to have enough to go around, 

 although half a million failed to supply the demand 

 last year. One customer says that his Bubach were 

 by far the finest Strawberries, and brought the best 

 price in his market: another says he has never seen 

 its equal. The illustration will give you an idea of 

 what a magnificent display it makes in the crates. 

 Bubach is an old standard that can be depended 

 upon to give a big crop of big berries. 



BIG JOE. 



This is a new variety, which we 

 offered for the first time last year, 

 I although it has been grown locally in this county to 

 ! a considerable extent for two or three seasons. It 

 I has shown such a \igorous growth and such a won- 

 i derful productiveness of rich, handsome berries that 

 bring top prices on the market, that everybody who 

 has seen it is wanting plants of it. This season it 

 sold at the station at a big premium over other va- 

 rieties carried there. We did not have any plants 

 left for fruiting on our own farm, but we saw fields 

 of Big Joe, as grown by some of the growers in this 

 locality, and they were certainly fine. We set out 

 all the plants we had for fruit, and expect to pick 

 from them next spring. The colored illustration on 

 page 15 is an exact picture. Plant some Big Joe 

 and get some big prices for your Strawberries. 



WE HAVE LOTS OF GOOD ONES 

 Received the Strawberry- plants from you about ten days ago. 

 I have read "figures don't lie. " and wonder if you have a testi- 

 monial which can beat this. I ordered one hundred and twelve 

 plants, and got one hundred and twenty. All but one are doing 

 finely. I picked seventeen flowers off from one yesterday. — 

 Jos. H. Sargen'T, Middlesex County, Connecticut, May 2, 1915. 



Bubach. A reliable berry for all markets; sells for a price above the average 



CHESAPEAKE 



Hats ofif to the Chesapeake! It is the most popular berry in America today, and we are justly proud 

 of being its introducers. We know of no statement ever made about this berry that has not been fully- 

 borne out; the fact is, many growers write that we don't praise it enough, and we get sometimes as many 

 as three and four tetters a day praising the Chesapeake. The value of this berry is told in the continued 

 increase of sales, after people have seen it in fruit on their own soil. We sold nearly a million and a half 

 last season, and probably could have sold half a million more, if we had had the plants; we turned down 

 order after order. It does not make as many plants as some others, and therefore the plants will never be 

 cheap as compared with such varieties as Klondyke and Senator Dunlap, yet the demand increases by 

 leaps and bounds. We have received, unsolicited, enough praises of the Chesapeake to fill this catalogue 

 from cover to cover, and we sell twice as many plants of this variety as any other. Although it was not 

 introduced until 1906, it is grown in practically ever>' section of the United States where Strawberries are 

 grown. Many of the largest growers use it for their main crop. The blossoms are perfect, fruit uniform and 

 large, averaging larger than the Gandy and, as compared with that popular old variety, it is more pro- 

 ductive, firmer, of much better quality and without green tips. The fruit of the Chesapeake is borne on 

 large stems, the greater portion of which stand upright, holding the fruit from the ground; the time of 

 ripening is three or four days earlier than the Gandy. It does not set an immense quantity of fruit, but 

 every blossom makes a berry-, the result is a good crop of berries that are well developed and strictly fancy, 

 holding up in size late in the season. Personally we consider it the very best late variety on the market, 

 whether grown for home use or distant market. Our greatest difficulty has been to grow enough plants to 

 supply the demand, which increases from year to year. This year we have over twenty acres planted to 

 this one variety, and hope to have enough plants to supply the trade, but we never have had and really 

 don't expect to have enough this year, — it seems that we cannot get enough. The Geneva, New York, 

 Experiment Station Bulletin, dated July, 1913, and entitled, "Some New and Noteworthy Fruits," says 



