Rayner Brothers, Salisbury, Maryland 



A Basket of Chesapeake 



r^Vioestr^^al^A '^^^^ ^^^ finest dessert berry of the late 

 \^llCbcipCclKC. varieties and will keep better and sell at 

 higher prices than any other late berry grown. The fruit is very 

 large and handsome and will stay so until the end of the fruiting 

 season. The berries are a rich, glossy red, with bright yellow 

 seed, have a large green cap and are very uniform ; have the most 

 delicious flavor of any berry we have ever tasted; very firm and 

 will ship better than any large late berry we have ever grown. 



Chesapeake must have good, well manured land and good care, for it is 

 sometimes difficult to get sufficient plants for a good fruiting bed. This va- 

 riety produces extra large, healthy plants, this is necessary for heavy pro- 

 duction of extra large berries, but not very many of them, for this reason 

 the plants can never be cheap compared with free-growing varieties but the 

 results are well worth a little more and they are sure to return extra profit. 

 They are heavy producers of large berries that are all large, not a few large 

 berries and a lot of small ones but all of the same enormous size and they 

 hold their size throughout the season. 



They are very seldom frosted for they blossom very late and we believe 

 they are the best and most profitable late berry to grow for commercial or 

 home use. Being a very fancy berry, large, delicious and handsome, they 

 will always sell at top prices. 



Plants Very Satisfactory 



Dear Gentlemen: Orange Co., N. Y., June 12, 1931. 



Would you please send us your berry catalog as we want to set out more 

 plants this year. Those we got from you last year are proving very satis- 

 factory. Yours truly, Mrs. Fred Metzger. 



