Strawberry Plants a Specialty. 



The strawberry being the first fruit to ripen in the spring comes to the table 

 when the appetite is exacting and ie a very welcome visitor. It is so beautiful 

 in form, color and fragrance, that it is to the fruits what the rose is to the flow- 

 ers — a veritable queen. 



No fruit can surpass strawberries, fully ripe and freshly picked from the 

 vines. They are so beneficial to health that invalids gain strength from eating 

 them, and they may be eaten at every meal in satisfying quantities and nourish 

 the most delicate stomach. 



The fruit is so soon produced after planting that it affords pleasant, easy 

 and profitable employment for the poor with h^tttttttttttttttttttttttaj^^u. 

 but little land, to the old with little strength, 

 and to all who love to till the soil and get near 

 to nature and to mother earth. 



The charms of the strawberry do not all 

 end in the eating of it. The strawberry is sure 

 to grow and the various varieties are suited for the various soils, 

 simple and fine berries are sure to sell at paying prices. 



Strawberries come to the table from the garden in the most tempting and pre- 

 sentable shape and need nothing to fit them to grace the table of a king. 

 riui n iiiiiiiiAiiiiA,Lu.iiiiiiii. u iiig Brother Hale says: "No man should fool him- 

 Somfctimes when a smailpateh t eelf in telling hie wife that he hasn't time to 

 3 of strawberries does not pay a E bother with such trash as berries, but will buy 

 tT,tert h all the family wants. He may not be much of a 

 liar but those of us who have so often heard that 



p Be confident about ;our nc- 

 t cess with strawberries Don't 

 E pro a$ it in a half hearted way i 



Lbut pitch in as if you mount it. q 

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can be substituted 



which will prove a great winner 



rrrrrrs qi^ chestnut about buying all the berries the 

 family wants, know he is way off. He never did and never will buy one tenth 

 as many berries as the family will consume." Hale is right, the only just and 

 true way for an honorable and manly man is to grow them and let everybody 

 about the place have all they can eat. 



POCOMOKE — Ferfect bloomer with a very strong stamina that would be 

 desirable with most pistillate varieties. The plant in color is very dark green. 

 Fruit large size of the dark carmine color, very folid and holds its color through 

 and through. It is unlike a great many other berries being solid in the center. 

 It ha? proven to be a variety that stands shipment well. Ripens here May 25th. 



