DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST OF CHOICE STRAWBERRY PLANTS. 



ROE.— Sold by the crate in the Newburg market, July 11th, 1891. The 

 only productive, large, good flavored late berry yet in- 

 troduced, yielding nearly double the fruit of the old 

 Kentucky, and one-third Larger, firm and of the very 

 best quality: the plant a strong, vigorous grower, with 

 perfect flowers. 



This new strawberry, which we have named the E. 

 P.ROE.was found in the month of May,1887,by Mr.W.B. 

 Brown, in his garden, at 152 South St., Newburgh.N. Y. 

 Whil<- preparing a flower bed for his wife, he noticed the 

 little chance seedling plant, and, being greatly interest- 

 ed in horticulture, requested of his better half that the 

 plant be permitted to remain. Owing to this good lady's 

 submission to her husband's wish we are now enabled to 

 offer to the public this superb Jate berry. When it becomes more fully known it is 

 bound to have first place as the leading productive late strawberry. From this lit- 

 tle plant Mr. Brown propagated plants enough to set a bed about eight feet square. 

 When it came in bearing, it was a pleasant surprise to Mr. Brown and to many«who 

 visited his garden to see the fruit, while all were universal in their praise of the vines 

 as the greatest j ielders they had ever seen. It was its lateness and fine flavor that 

 pleased them best. It was in this way and in seeing the fruit at Mr. Brown's stora 

 that Mr. Nathaniel Barnes became interested in the new berry, and arranged with 

 Mr. Brown to grow it in a large way on his extensive fruit farm. Mr. Barnes is 

 one of the best judges of fruits, and his opinion can always be relied on as trustwor- 

 thy. Through Mr. Barnes' planting it on his place, the fruit proving so valuaole, 

 when placed on the Newburgh market, and its fine large size, excellent flavor and 

 lateness exciting the admiration of all who saw the fruit, lniuy prominent authori- 

 ties ordered a certain number of quarts each day during its season. 



Dayton. — I have heard so many good things said of the Dayton, 

 well-posted man, that I have concluded to catalogue it, 

 although I have never seen the fruit. The Dayton is in 

 good repute in its own county where it is well and fav- 

 orably known, and probably no section of the country 

 can boast of a larger number of intelligent fruit grow- 

 ers than this. There are some sixty nurseries within /«&) 

 twenty miles of Dayton. 



The Dayton (so named by request of the members 

 of the Montgomery County Horticultural Society, at the 

 June meeting, 1891, held at the home of the originator, 

 Mr. David Feicht, five miles north of Dayton, O.) is a 

 chance seedling. Mr. Feicht's attention was drawn to 

 it by its heavy stem and immense cluster of fine, large 

 fruit. It was tested side by side with the Crescent and 

 other productive varieties, and it outyielded them all: 

 besides it proved six days earlier than the Crescent. It is a strong, healthy, vigorous 

 and upright grower, entirely free from rust, and its large foliage protects its blos- 

 soms from frost. In color it is somewhat darker than the Crescent. Solid, a good 

 shipper, of fine form and excellent flavor. It is an immense yielder of very large 

 fruit, and holds out well in size to the end of the season. 



The points of excellence claimed for the Dayton are: 



1. Earliness; 2, hardiness; 3, large size; 4, productiveness: 5, superior flavor: 6. 

 perfect bloom: 7, good shipping qualities; 8, desirable color; 9. vigorous growth: 10. 

 its entire freeness from rust, always producing large, bright, clean and healthv fol- 

 iage.— Disseminator. 



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