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Potted plants. These we furnish in August and September, but 
only to customers who order lo days or more before they desire to 
receive them. Such plants, set out at that season, give paying crops 
the next summer, aud there is no risk; but potted plants are never 
sent oat in the spring. 
Our Strawberry Catalogne, printed soon after mid-summer, gives 
the results of the latest trials and the comparati\'e merit of the difi^rent 
varieties, with sucli information as will aid our customers in this 
department. We mail it free to all who write for it. 
Distances to plant in gardens : 15 inches square, if kept iij hills; 
set in that manner 4 or 5 rows, then leave a path 2 feet wide. 
Field culture. The rows may be feet apart and the plants in 
the row 1 \-2 feet, if the plants are set in spring. 
Draw a line, and have the rows perfeclly straight. Whoever can 
grow Strawberries in iiills will find that the fruit is larger and the cul- 
tivation much less. Another elenient of benefit to the grower who 
would have big beriies, is to plant new beds every year, and have but 
one harvest. To weed and renew an old bed is many limes more 
work than to plant annually. 
Strawberry plants, at the North Main Street Nursery, are grown 
in large quantities, not for fruit, but to secure superior plants to supply 
our trade. 
The ground being thoroughly prepared at much labor and 
expense, it is not wise to plant any but the best varieties, and only 
strong and healthy plants. It is better to send to a trustworthy grower 
and pay him a fair price, than to accept ordinary plants as a gift. Many 
times have we seen plants quoted at less than it would cost to dig and 
pack them properly. Such plants, being the refuse of old beds, would, 
if replanteo, usually become little less than total loss, and no clear- 
heacied man would waste time, money and land by such an investment. 
The difference between plants grown only for the runners and 
those which, like weeds, exhaust the crowded beds, must be apparent to 
every intelligent cultivator. 
New varieties we purcliase from the originators, when possible, to 
insure correctness, occasionally paying more than a dollar apiece for 
them, and in a few months selling youn;c: plants of the same at a less 
price per dozen. We continue our practice, begun in 18S0, of planting 
in our trial beds new Strawberries as they appear, aiifl icjectmg such 
as are in no respect superior. The fruit product this season has been 
abundant, and the demand equally large- In our trial beds have been 
planted fift\' named varieties, and many more without names. 
Intending buyers are invited to visit and examine our plants in 
pur trial beds. 
The Hami'Den At-Ricui-rrR al Society awarded us the first 
PREMIUM of $10 for the best field exhibit. 
The Hampden County IIorticl'ltukal Society awarded us 
FIRST premiums for the best four varieties. 
Col. Edgeri.v's special prize of $10 was awarded us for the five 
best plates on exhibition. " 
•fi^For prices of Strawberries, see page 25. 
Barton's Eclipse. "This new berry is a wonderful ian- 
provement on the Haverland and Warfield in productiveness," 
says a distinguished grower in Ohio. If so,, it stands at the 
head of the list, its large, bright color and excellent flavor 
being in its favor. One of our customers cultivates with great 
skill more than a score of the choicest varieties. A visitor 
who saw them when in fruit singled out this one as the best, 
and ordered 20 dozen plants at $1 per doz. 
Beder Wood. A variety that is well indorsed by the lead- 
