OF CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



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B1SEL— The Bisel is a seedling of the Wilson propagated in 1887. B 

 are pistillate. Plants healthy, vigorous grower and abundant plant mal 

 They have long, fine matted roots which enables them to stand severe drouth-. 

 The fruit is very large luscious and firm. Color, a deep glossy red with double 

 calyx. Very productive: season same as the < n -cent but continue to iruit 

 later and very uniform in shape and size. The fruit is held from the ground by 

 large fruit trusses but is protected from frost by its large foliage. One of tin- 

 best plant makers. Runners large and long and sets its plants wide apart. 

 be set 3| to 4 feet in the row and make a solid row Mifficient to prodUee a full 

 crop. — Originator. 



This variety is from southern Illinois where it has a great reputation as a 

 profitable market berry. Having heard so much of the variety I was anxiou> to 

 see how it would behave here. The plant is a good grower and is able to can} 

 its great load of fruit to maturity. The berries are very large, of regular coni- 

 cal form, bright red, quite firm and with seed but slightly imbedded, flesh i> 

 light red and of good flavor. 



MARY, — It is the krgest strawberry yet produced, the most prolific, the 



most beautiful and firmest large straw- 

 berry yet offered. 



The berries are uniformly of the con- 

 ical form, with blunt apex, exception- 

 ally uniform in size and shape, deep 

 crimson color, and of extra rich, high 

 quality. Of the entire list of strawber- 

 bres there is not a single sort that will 

 keep longer when ripe, or endure -hip- 

 ping better. Its season is medium to 

 late. The berries retaining their large 

 size remarkably well to the end. A char- 

 acteristic of the variety is that its fruit 

 is rarely ill shaped, never coxcombed — 

 an unusual feature in a large berry. 



We have now had it in bearing three 

 successive years and a- it has not de- 

 veloped a defect, and is so extraordina- 

 ry in size, productiveness, fin 

 beauty and quality it is with a keen 

 sense of pleasure we offer it to the pub- 

 lic. — Introducers. 



I have not yet fruited this berry but hear good things of it from several 

 disinterested sources. A New York city commission merchant who has handled 

 the fruit advesed me to plant largly of it for market. M\ stock of plans is lim- 

 ited but what 1 have i- very tine being grown on light rich soil. Mj plants oi 

 this variety will average three times as large as the original ones Bent me by the 

 introducers. 



BANQUET- A. cross of the wild field strawberry with one oi the best of the 

 Large cultivated varieties; it combines size and productiveness with the delicious 

 flavor of the wild strawberry.— Introdtn i:k. 



This year berries were produced measuring and inch and a half in diameter 

 which is certainh Large enough. The berries sent as were of a uniform conical 

 shape; while a fevi are shouldered none are coxcomb shaped: the fruit is per- 



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