TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 



Sweetheart is as handsome as a rose 



SWEETHEART. This variety has made a splen- 

 did growth here, but as we have not fruited it, we 

 will quote from the description of Chas. A. Green, the 

 introducer, as follows: "It is a beautiful, bright 

 carmine-red, the best keeping berr>' I have ever seen, 

 and must become a good shipper on account of its 

 firmness of flesh and ability to stand up under hard 

 usage. The flesh is highly colored nearly to the 

 center." Prof. H. E. Van Deman says: "Sweetheart 

 appears to me to be one of the ver>' best in vigor 

 and productiveness of plant; has well- 

 shaped berries of good size and high 

 quality." Sweetheart is worth extensive trial. 



TENNESSEE PROLIFIC. As indicated by its 

 name, it is very prolific. Large size, bright crimson 

 and for the most part long and corrugated in shape. 

 The berries of this variety present a picture most 

 attractive. The flesh is fine-grained and makes a 

 good shipper; it is equally popular as a canner. The 

 Prolific has been on the market twenty-seven or 

 twenty-eight years, and the demand for it 

 seems to be greater today than ever before. 

 The blossoms are perfect, and it makes one 

 of the best staminate varieties to plant 

 with medium -early or midseason pistil- 

 late varieties. (See page 20.) 

 THREE W'S. This variety took first 

 prize at the World's Fair at St. Louis, and 

 made a record of keeping ten days. A very 

 popular, perfect-blooming, midseason va- 

 plants large, robust and amply able to pro- 

 big crops. The foliage is a beautiful dark 

 in color and very attractive. The fruit is 

 farge, of fine quality and produced ver>' freely, cov- 

 ering a long season from medium-early to late. 

 This and the Tennessee Prolific are among the best 

 to plant with pistillate varieties. It is firm in texture 

 and a good keeper; it is also very resistant to late 

 frosts, seldom being affected by them. (See page 21.) 

 TWILLEY. This is the variety for which we paid 

 S200 for one dozen plants. This was the prize 

 for the best unintroduced variety sent us, which 

 fruited in 1909. The size is large; the berry is well 

 colored, and, what is very important to the com- 

 mercial grower, is exceedingly firm. The eating 

 quality also is very good. Ripens medium late and 

 makes plenty of healthy, vigorous plants. A variety 

 that will give general satisfaction to growers who 

 want a large, fancy, shipping berry. It is a persist- 

 ent grower, almost covering the ground with plants 

 during the hottest and driest seasons and willbear 

 a good crop of berries, while many other varieties 



growing in the 



same field will I ggst He Ever Saw 



be found to suf- \ A ^ i received the plants 



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Wheeler. Bristol 

 Co., Mass., 

 May 4, '14. 



A Good Record 



The plants were just fine: out of 1,100 

 I onlv lost three plants. — E. E. Story, 

 Gallia Co., Ohio. May 15. 1914- 



Senator Dunlap (see page 18) has an extra-long flowering season 



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