GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. KelloEg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
THE EVER-BEARING OR FALL-BEARING PRODUCTIVE - FEMALE OR PISTILLATE 
PRODUCTIVE is a pistillate fall-bearing variety of great promise. It is a very heavy yielder, and the berries are large and of 
splendid quality. The Productive, the same as all pistillates, should be set between flanking rows of such bisexual fall-bear- 
ing varieties as Superb or Progressive in order to be properly fertilized. The foliage of Productive is very dark green. It has 
long leaf -stems which serve as a protection to both fruit and blossoms. This variety, the same as Superb, gives a good crop of 
choice berries in the early summer and continues fruiting up until freezing. It is a good runner maker. It seems to be at home 
in all soils and succeeds under all climatic conditions. No grower need hesitate to set the Productive. This variety, like most 
fall-bearing varieties, gives berries of rounder form during the fall months than in the early summer, and it has been our ex- 
perience that the fall-bearing varieties give berries of a milder flavor during the fall months than in the early summer months 
Be sure and include a liberal number of these plants in your order. Productive is grown only at our farm at Three Rivera 
We do not hesitate to say that you may purchase 
plants of the fall-bearing varieties with full con- 
fidence that they will give you a large crop of 
fancy berries during the late summer and fall 
months just the same as they will in the early 
summer months. 
In 1912 our fall-bearing varieties began fruit- 
ing with us as early as any variety on our farm, 
and they continued to fruit up until the ground 
was slightly frozen. We had strawberries-and- 
cream and short-cake throughout the month of 
October. 
Our experience with these varieties in 1913 has 
been the same as that of 1912. We are now test- 
ing these varieties in our experimental gardens 
here at Three Rivers, at Twin Falls, Idaho, and 
at Canby, Oregon, and the reports which come 
to us from the managers of our Western farms 
regarding them are very gratifying, indeed. This 
leads us to believe that the fall-bearers are to be 
a universal success, and that they are not partic- 
ular as to any certain kind of soil or climatic con- 
ditions. 
Just how cheaply these plants may be grown 
is a question which must be determined later on, 
but just at present it is impossible, as we see it, 
to grow these plants and sell them at lower prices 
than those we quote in this book, for the simple 
fact that these varieties are practically new and, 
therefore, scarce and expensive. Another thing 
which must be taken into consideration in the 
growing of the fall-bearing varieties is that these 
varieties bloom very heavily throughout the en- 
tire summer months, which makes it necessary 
for us, who grow for plants rather than fruit, to 
go over the plants every few days and remove 
the blossoms to prevent the weakening of the 
plants by pollen secretion and seed production. 
This is something the grower will not have to do 
because he is working for berries and not for 
plants. 
When you take into consideration the fact that 
these fall-bearing varieties begin fruiting early 
in the summer and continue to fruit heavily up 
until very late in the fall, the prices at which we 
are selling the plants make them quite as inex- 
pensive as the old standard varieties, because 
they have so long a fruiting season that they will 
naturally give you many more quarts of berries 
per acre, and their fruit in the fall will command 
a very high price. The fact that these fall-bear- 
ing varieties make fewer runners than the stand- 
ard varieties is another reason why the plants of 
these ever-bearers cannot be sold as cheaply as 
the standard sorts. 
Growing the fall-bearing varieties for fruit 
only is a very simple matter. Indeed, we believe 
that the fall-bearing varieties are much more 
easily handled in the fruiting bed than are the 
standard varieties, because the fall-bearers do 
not make as many runner plants as do the stand- 
ard varieties, and it is our observation that the 
fall-bearing varieties really are more hardy than 
most of the standard sorts. Another feature in 
favor of the fall-bearing varieties is the fact that 
they may be set in the early spring months and, 
by removing the blossoms up until the middle of 
June, they may be allowed to fruit that same fall. 
And where well-developed plants are used and 
are given good care, it is possible for the fruit 
grower to secure a generous crop of fine fruit the 
season they are set out. 
That the fall-bearers greatly enlarge the field 
of the strawberry grower and extend the bounds 
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