A Fine Field of Fairfax and Dorsett Plants 



Do You Agree? 



This is the 50th Annual visit of our Salesman to the strawberry 

 growers of this country. We have tried to make it a Salesman of interest 

 and value as well as effective in selling plants. On pages 11 to 14 under 

 "Common Sense Methods" we give you some of the most practical results 

 of our 50 years' experience in growing strawberries. Under "Proper 

 Spacing of Plants" and "Canvas Hose Irrigation" on page 15 we have 

 summarized some of the more important experimental work which we 

 believe will help in getting bigger crops of better berries. On other pages 

 we have discussed the possibilities of profit and how much, and the reasons 

 we believe our plants would be successful for you. Throughout the variety 

 descriptions we have tried to give fair statements of the behavior of 

 different varieties indicating their weak points as well as their good ones. 



It has been suggested that parts of our Berry Book read too much 

 like a text book or an Experiment Station Bulletin to be an effective catalog 

 for the selling of strawberry plants. Do you agree? We try to help our 

 customers make the most of their strawberry crops. We believe that a 

 catalog such as this one is will be just as effective in getting folks to 

 order their plants from vis as if we had page after page covered with 

 ballyhoo and exaggeration. The many kind things said about our 1934 

 catalog are appreciated, and so long as the response in orders continues 

 as it has in the past we are going to continue to believe that it is better to 

 publish a new and helpful idea whenever we can, and to avoid exaggeration. 

 We hope to receive your 1935 order for plants. You can depend on 

 getting fine planting stock with which you will be well pleased. 



