What to Plant. 
This is an important question, especially to beginners in strawberry culture, and 
they sometimes find it difiicult to choose among the many varieties described in cata- 
logs, and nearly all highly recommended. The most of them are said to be large, 
and it is a fact that the great majority of the popular sorts are large. They are des- 
cribed as fine in color and gloss, and this also is true, for at the present day it is 
hardly considered worth while to bring out a berry that is not handsome. There is 
a somewhat wider range in the item of flavor, but still the beginner is bewildered. To 
such we would say, choose a few varieties that seem by their descriptions best 
suited to your requirements, and try them in a small way. You will be almost sure 
to find one or more that will be satisfactory, and that you will deem it advisable to 
plant more extensively. The information given in this book may be helpful to some 
extent, and if so we shall be glad, but our experience can not serve others as well as 
their own. 
Our Introductions. 
This firm, as M. Crawford or M. Crawford Company, has introduced a large 
number of excellent varieties, many of which have become popular. Those de- 
scribed in this book are Braudywine, Empress, Gill, Helen Gould, Highland, Kittie 
Rice, Matthew Crawford, Miller, Mrs. Miller, Nick Ohmer, Senator Dunlap, Wm. 
Belt and Woolverton. 
This year we are assisting, in connection with a number of other dealers, in the 
introduction of another new variety which promises to perform an important part in 
supplying the need of planters for good market sorts. We have already quite a 
number that possess great merit, but we believe there is room for another. We 
present this in the King Edward, and give it first place in our 
Descriptions. 
OUR ONE STRICTLY NEW VARIETY. 
King Edward. P.— Midseason. For several years past strawberry growers have 
been interested in this new berry and have looked forward with expectation to 
the time when it would be offered for sale. That time has uow arrived, and we an- 
ticipate that those who buy will find in due time that they have obtained a prize. 
The originator, Mr. D. J. Miller, of Holmes County, Ohio, has been for many years 
an extensive fruit grower, and has taken a special interest in strawberries, growing 
many seedlings. He produced Miller and Mrs. Miller, both of which have proved 
excellent, and now offers us King Edward as his best. It it a seedling of the Miller, 
and was first named King, but afterwards changed to King Edward. 
Mr. Miller adopted an original and rather novel plan for introducing his new 
berry, which will be likely to work to the mutual advantage of himself and the buy- 
ing public. He sent out plants a year in advance to numerous dealers in order that 
they might raise their own stock and be ready for a general introduction with fresh 
plants grown on their own grounds.. Furthermore, Mr. Miller has made the prices 
on King Edward so reasonable that all who want it in either small or large quanti- 
ties can afford to have it. One dollar is a small sum to pay for a dozen plants of a 
choice new strawberry, and at twelve dollars a thousand planters can use it for their 
fields and be assured that it will pay, from the fact that it has been tried and has 
succeeded all over the country. Very few berries, if any, are given so general a test 
before their introduction. As we said, this is the only strictly new berry that we 
offer this spring, and we are pleased that it is so good and at the same time so mod- 
erate in cost. 
We have fruited the King Edward several times, having had it on trial, and we 
value it highly. It is a vigorous grower, and a proUfic yielder of large, handsome 
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