GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyilght 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
THE EVER-BEARING OR FALL-BEARING SUPERB -MALE OR BISEXUAL 
SUPERB is a truly wonderful fall-bearing variety, and what makes it unusually profitable is the fact that it also produces a 
heavy yield of choice fruit in the early summer, along with the standard varieties. On all our farms the Superb was simply 
loaded with choice berries from early in June until July, at which time the plants ceased bearing, but again began to fruit 
heavily in August. They continued to give large yields of choice berries throughout August, September and in October up to 
the time the ground was slightly frozen. Superb has a beautiful dark-green foliage. The plants grow tall, which is a perfect 
protection to the blossoms during early frosts in the fall. Plants of this variety which are set in the spring should have the 
blossoms removed until the first of July. The remainder of the blossoms may be left to develop into berries, and a good crop 
of fruit will thus be secured the same season the plants are set without injury to the plants. It is a prolific runner maker. 
We are very enthusiastic over the Superb, and urge all of our customers to give it a thorough trial, confident it will make a won- 
derful showing. Superb is grown at all three of our farms, and deserves a thorough testing out in all sections of the country. 
ful. All species of plants must move in some 
direction— the orderly processes of nature never 
cease. So, if a plant has become vifeakened in its 
fruit-producing organism to such an extent that 
it no longer will build up a fruit-bud system, its 
energies will be expended in the multiplication of 
barren runner plants. 
A barren plant Will make more runners than a 
heavy fruiting plant of the same variety. It is 
apparent, therefore, that weakened plants which 
make more runners than strong fruiters, event- 
ually will monopolize the field, and fruit produc- 
tion will decrease in the same ratio that the run- 
ner plants of the unfruitful kind increase. This 
explains why a variety deteriorates or ' 'runs out. ' ' 
as it is commonly expressed. 
It also explains why it is that plant growers 
who do not give proper attention to selection and 
restriction can sell the runner plants so numer- 
ously produced at lower prices than can be done 
by propagators who grow plants only from care- 
fully selected mother plants. An instance illus- 
trating this practice is reported to us in a letter 
received last spring in which the writer advisee" 
us as follows: 
"R is getting a lot of business. He has 
sold all of his own plants and has bought up all 
the plants in the neighborhood, taking tnem 
from fruiting beds or anywhere else he can get 
them. He pays his neighbors |1.00 per thousand 
for them in the ground, and sells these plants for 
$2.50 per thousand. He puts out lots of awful 
stuff, and more than that he puts it out in a dis- 
graceful condition: but his 'orice seems to attract 
business. " 
With the Kellogg methods of selecting only 
from plants having the heaviest fruit-producing 
organism, the barren plants are eliminated, and 
all varieties naturally become stronger fruiters 
with the succeeding years. 
Our Ftill-Bearing Varieties 
WHEN the fall-bearing varieties first came 
into prominence we were rather slow in 
recommending them to our customers be- 
cause we felt it our duty to first test them out 
before inviting our customers to purchase the 
plants. It always has been our rule thoroughly 
to test new varieties of all kinds in different soils 
before offering them to our trade. During the 
past three or four years we have been experi- 
menting quite extensively with the fall-bearins: 
varieties; the results secured convince us beyond 
all doubt that these varieties have come to stay. 
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