GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1913 by R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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GROWING A CROP OF KELLOGG STRAWBERRIES IN A BACK YARD 
TTHE pleasure and profit that one who srrows strawberries on & small scale may enjoy is very great, indeed, even though only a 
few square feet are available for the purpose. This beautiful scene represents the back lot of J. H. McDermott of Peoria, 111., 
and the quantities of fruit he gathers from this little plot are, indeed, quite wonderful. Why not try it out on your own account? 
ket, for it is impossible to produce high quality 
fruit where the matted-row system is followed. 
In the first place, too much of the strength of the 
mother plant goes to the production of runner 
plants. In the next place, ample sunshine and 
air are not permitted to reach the plants when 
they are thus crowded for space. Again, the 
fertility of the soil must be very great, indeed, 
to develop and sustain the number of plants 
grown under this system. No one should grow 
strawberries by the matted-row system save 
when his product is intended for a canning 
factory. 
Proper Mating of Plants 
TN selecting your plants a point of great impor- 
■■• tarjce is proper mating. There is nothing 
more disappointing to the strawberry grower 
than to find, alter his plants are set out, that he 
has a lot of pistillates which will yield no fruit 
because they are not mated with powerful bisex- 
uals. Patrons of the Kellogg Company will 
have no occasion to complain on that score, for 
when an order comes to us it is our rule very 
carefully to scan it to discover whether the vari- 
eties ordered are so arranged as to insure full 
crops of well-matured fruit. In the column oppo- 
site we show how each pistillate plant may be 
mated. It will be seen that there is a large num- 
ber of bisexuals available for pistillates of all sea- 
sons, so that in all cases, where pistillates are 
ordered, even a novice in strawberry growing 
may select proper mates for every pistillate 
oi'dered. Let us say that it always is well to 
place pistillate varieties between flanking rows 
of bisexuals. The grower may place one row of 
pistillates between bisexuals, or two rows, or 
three rows, as pollen will fly from the bisexuals 
and fertilize the pistils of the female (pistillate) 
plants when there are as many as three rows of 
pistillates between two rows of bisexuals. 
BISEXUALS 
Excelsior 
August Luther 
Early Ozark 
Michel's Early 
Climax 
Texas 
Longfellow 
Heritage 
Lovett 
Bederwood 
Tennessee 
Wolverton 
Staples 
Jesse 
BISEXUALS 
Helen Davis 
Senator Dunlap 
Wm. Belt 
Parsons' Beauty 
Clyde 
King Edward 
Pearl 
New York 
PISTILLATES 
of the Earlier 
Varieties 
Virginia 
Crescent 
Warfield 
Haverland 
Highland 
Downing'sBride 
PISTILLATES 
of the Later 
Varieties 
Buster 
Enormous 
Bubach 
Sample 
Fendall 
Cardinal 
Kellogg's Prize 
BISEXUALS 
Senator Dunlap 
Wm. Belt 
Splendid 
Clyde 
Klondike 
Nick Ohmer 
New York 
Lady Thompson 
Parson's Beauty 
Jocunda 
Sharpless 
Ohio Boy 
. King Edward 
Missionary 
BISEXUALS 
Aroma 
Pride of Michigan 
Brandywine 
Marshall 
Chesapeake 
Steven's L. Champ. 
Dornan 
Commonwealth 
It will be observed that the outside columns are 
bisexuals, and that pistillates occupy the center 
space. Now all of the pistillates among the earlier 
varieties will be perfectly mated when set with 
any one or more of the bisexuals appearing in 
the brackets on either side. And all of the later 
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