GREAT CROPS OP STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
GLEN MARY. MALE OR BISEXUAL - MEDIUM 
FOR seventeen years we have offered this great variety to our trade, and although we have each season added to the area 
given over to this variety, the orders received seldom fail to take up our entire crop of plants. Glen Mary is noted lor very 
heavy yields of big, dark-red berries to which prominent seeds of bright yellow add a notable contrast. The flesh is crimson, 
juicy and rich and of unusually high tiavor. Because of its great yields and fine shipping qualities it is produced extensively by 
commercial growers. It has a splendid root system, very large foliage, and is especially popular in regions of limited moisture, 
but it is equally as popular in regions where ample rainfall is had. Glen Mary, although a bisexual, sometimes indicates a 
scarcity of pollen in its early bloom. Where this occurs Wm. Belt makes an ideal mate for Glen Mary. Grown at all our farms. 
Eastern States. But never in all my travels have 1 ever be- 
fore seen so perfect a piece of horticultural work as your 
farm presents. It leads anything else in perfection of detail 
with which I am familiar, and I think it due you to say so. 
For years I have received your catalogue annually: have al- 
ways desired to visit the home of the Kellogg Thoroughbreds, 
and now that I have seen it can only say that every claim 
made in your literature I found more than honored in the 
performance. What you have succeeded in doing in this year 
of unprecedented drouth is little short of marvelous. 
W. C. Whelchel. 
It is only fair to say of the work of Mr. Whel- 
chel that it expresses the highest ideals of inten- 
sive cultural methods. This is shown by the fact 
that from less than six acres of land, fifteen 
minutes distant from the center of Danville, 111., 
he is receiving an annual income amounting on 
the average to $6,000 per year. A word like the 
above from such a horticulturist is praise indeed. 
Letters From Old -Time Patrons 
Corning, N. Y., April 11, 1913. "More than 
twenty years ago 1 answered an advertisement 
of 'Great Crops of Strawberries and How to 
Grow Them,' and ordered some plants from R. 
M. Kellogg, who was then located at Ionia, Mich. 
These proved so satisfactory that I have since 
ordered every second year some plants from him 
or his successors. Some have proved not con- 
genial to my soil, which is a rich though heavy 
clay, but on the whole I have been well satisfied, 
or I would not have come back for more than 
twenty years. " Frank Scheh. 
Cuba, 111., March 6, 1913. "I have been buy- 
ing plants of you for twenty-five years and they 
have made for me a reputation for the biggest 
berries ever. I am now past four-score years, 
but still I take great pleasure in growing big 
berries." Alfred Call. 
And speaking of old customers, it always is a 
matter of interest for us to go over our extensive 
list of old-time patrons to observe with what 
faithful regularity their orders come to us year 
after year. Here is a typical example, repre- 
senting a countless number of other growers who 
send us orders each succeeding season. We refer 
to Chas. J. Hinckle of St. Clairsville, Ohio. Mr. 
Hinckle became our customer in 1904 with an 
order amounting to $17.75. In succeeding years 
the orders were as follows: 1905, $14.50; 1906, 
$14.00; 1907, $30.p0; 1908, $28.75; 1909, $42.00; 
1910, $39.00; 1911, $35.00; 1912, $30.00; 1913, 
$32.85. 
These figures are an eloquent tribute to Mr. 
Hinckle's faith in the value of Kellogg plants 
and certainly indicate that, year in and year out 
during ten complete seasons, he has found the 
Kellogg plants all that we have represented them 
to be. 
Time and Distance No Barrier 
HERE is a letter from one of our California 
customers that we take peculiar pleasure 
in reproducing here, not only because of 
what she says concerning the success had with 
our Thoroughbred plants, but partly because of 
the distance covered in delivering these plants to 
her and the difficulties attending the task. From 
Three Rivers plants sent to Gualala go to a point 
near San Francisco and are there transferred and 
sent north into Mendocino county by rail. At this 
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