DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST OF CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



SWINDLE V 'P). — The plant, in habit of growth, somewhat resembles the Glewt- 

 dale, although with broader leaves: it is a more vigorous grower tijan euber of its 

 parents, and makes runners freely: leaf and fruit stalks are Jong and stout, fruit 

 stalks very abundant and branch freely, so that often thirty to fifty berries form en 

 a single cluster; blossoms, pistillate; olooms medium till late; fruit ripens late to 

 very late: large, rich, dark, glossy -carlet color: sprightly, high flavor, somewhat 

 acid, but of excellent quality, firm and solid, and a grand shipper: in a general way, 

 both plant and fruit resemble Gandy. only ihe berries average larger and of richer 

 color. Swindle is fully as late and will produce four times as much fruit as 

 Gandy, making it the grandest late market or family variety yet introduced. 



Hale Bros, say: ''Early last season, when such varieties as Southard, lii efe- 

 el'fl Early, etc., were ripe, we sold fruit from fifteen to eighteen cents per quart : in 

 the middle of the season eight to ten cents was the ruling price; but later, when tiie 

 Swindle was ripe, we had no trouble to sell them at twenty and twenty-five cents 

 per quart. 



July 23, 1891, Mr. Smalley writes: "Picked my last crate of Swindle to-day. sold 

 for twenty cents per quart. Four hundred and eighty bushels from the two acres." 



Our own fruiting has been on a much smaller scale, and no measurements have 

 been made except in a small way. 



One row of fall set plants, three rods long, gave fourteen quarts at one picking, 

 while a matted row, one foot wide, fifteen roas long, gave thirty-seven quarts at 

 one picking; at the rate of over fifty bushels per acre at one picking. 



Enhance. — It is a general purpose berry, and can be grown for a fancy or high 

 priced market, for home use, for canning, 

 for pleasure or for profit. The plant is 

 vigorous and healthy grower, with dark 

 green foliage; it sets an abundance of well 

 proportioned runners which easily take root 

 It is a beautiful gro* er; its flower is perfect. 

 The quality is good, being slightly acid, bu 

 not sour. Its berries are of the largest size, 

 and being very firm and of a bright crimscr 

 color, makes them very attractive an 

 salable Its firmness aids in its keepim 

 qualities both before and after being picked 

 There is no berrv now in existence that ex- 

 eels it in firmness of pulp, hence it is onn >£&♦ ^(h 

 of the best shipping berries extant. 



Regina. — This is a new candidate for ^;- v *' 



public fav< r from Alabama. It is claimed 



to be large in size, firm, very productive and *" * . :> 



the latest of all. Ir is certainly a fine grcwer. 



Oregon Everbearing produced a fair crop in May. T have seen no fruit 

 since. Good reports of it from Oregon. 



Hoffman (see first page) is too well known to nepd much comment, being one 

 of the most popular varieties grown in the South for northern markets. Tbe true 

 stock is of fair size, moderately productive, and ihe firmest of all early kinds. Be- 

 ware of mixed stock of which the country is flooded. 



Walton. — Not yet fruited here, it is a vigorous healthy grower and looks 

 promising. 



