DREER'S MID-SUMMER LIST. 



Photograph of a dish of Sharpless Strawberries gathered on June 23d, 1891, from pot-grown plants 

 set out in October, 1890. Weight of fruit one ounce each, circumference six inches. 

 Grown by Joseph Hurley, gardener to J. M. Rhodes, Esq., Ardmore, Pa. 



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In presenting this list, we desire to call the attention of our customers to our facilities for growing Straw- 

 berry plants, at our Nursery and Trial Farm at Eiverton, where all the varieties are tested under our 

 personal supervision. 



Pot-Grown Strawberries. 



Our pot-grown Strawberry plants are ready for shipment about the 

 middle of July, and can be supplied as late as October in such varieties as 

 are unsold at that time. Plants set out this, summer will produce a full 

 crop of fruit in June, 1892. 



The illustration at the head of this page is taken from a photograph of 



the Sharpless berries gathered from plants supplied to one of our customers 



in October last. It is better, however, to procure the plants in August or 



September, as earlier plantings will develop larger and more vigorous plants 



and produce a greater crop of fruit next year, besides we are usually sold 



out of many varieties later in the season. 



Potted plants may appear expensive, yet when the labor necessary to grow them into proper condition 



and the time saved in the result of the crop are considered, they will be found much cheaper than ordinary 



layer plants. They may be planted after a crop of early summer vegetables has been harvested, and a crop 



of frnit secured in eight or ten months after planting. 



All varieties offered in this list have perfect or bi-sexual blossoms, except those marked (P), which are 

 destitute of stamens, and are termed pistilate or imperfect flowering varieties, and must be planted near 

 some perfect flowering sort, or they will produce little or no fruit. 



