MAXIMUS (B). 
LATM. Same as Corsican. Must have heavy, rich 
land and plants must be set very close as it makes com- 
paratively few runners and stools up easily. It shows 
thorough breeding and will put a wind-row of berries 
around the plant that is quite interesting. Herries deep 
red, very attractive and O. K. Pedigree, nine years. 
I cordially invite correspondence with all 
fruit growers and will take pleasure in giving 
them the benefit of my experience whenever it 
will be of service to them. 
My success depends upon your success, and 
I am especially anxious that growers stocking 
their grounds with my pedigree plants shall 
do things at the right time and in the right 
way. 
Among the opportunities I have for keeping 
in touch with the most progressive fruit grow- 
ers of the day, I may be permitted to mention 
that I have a horticultural library containing 
all the modern books, the reports of the pro- 
proceedings of many State Horticultural So- 
cieties, and am a subscriber and contributor to 
all leading horticultural papers, and have long 
been identified with the Michigan State Horti- 
cultural Society, and for the past two years 
have served as its president, and president of 
the West Michigan Horticultural Society 
which covers the great fruit belt of western 
Michigan and am also an honorary member 
of several other State societies before which 
I have delivered lectures. 
I have also been regularly employed by the 
Michigan State Board of Agriculture to deliver 
lectures, conduct institutes and lead discussions 
in fruit centers. 
My large correspondence gives me practical- 
ly an experiment station in every community 
in the country. They tell me of their methods 
of work, of the varieties they have tried, and 
the results obtained. With all these sources of 
reliable information, I believe I can be of ser- 
vice, not only to commercial growers, but to 
persons growing fruit for their own table. 
Write me at any time giving particulars and I 
shall be able to give you some valuable point- 
ers. 
PARKER EARLE (B). 
Parker Earle is peculiar to itself. It is perhaps the 
most productive variety we have when free from ex- 
haustion, but let it overbear once and then you* get an 
immense amount of bloom and sets a great number of 
berries, but fail to bring them to maturity. On our vig- 
orous thoroughbred plants I have counted as high as 390 
berries on one plant and of these fully 350 attaitted mar- 
ketable size and 250 would be classed "above medium." 
It makes very few runners, but naturally stools up fast 
and should always be set close together and always on rich- 
land. It is about the only one to be commended for low 
land, and this because of double bloom in case of frost. 
Pedigree, fifteen years. 
Parker Earle Improved known as Arnot's Parker 
Earle (B) so closely resembles it that a seprate descrip- 
tion is unnecessary. Eight years pedigree. 
I give personal attention to all letters in the 
order in which they are received, except in the 
rush of tlie packing season in April, when they 
are filed and consi<lered as work wiW permit. 
My whole time is then given to the filling of 
orders and arranging experimental grounds and 
propagating beds. 
In this connection let me ask a favor. My 
working time runs pretty close to fifteen hours- 
per day, and while I have an efficient super- 
intendent, and stenographer, yet all the selec- 
tions and tillage are done under my own per- 
sonal supervision, and, in order that I may 
dispose of this volume of correspondence- 
promptly, I am obliged to ask my friends 
to be very brief. 
Omit all personal matters and apologies for 
writing. State your questions at once, fully 
and pointedly, and do not discuss your love of 
fruit growing through many pages as so many 
do. I shall be especially pleased to learn of 
any experiences you may have had of fruit 
growing and results obtained written in a con- 
cise form. I only want you to be brief so as 
to make it possible for me to get through with 
this work promptly, so that my patrons may 
receive the information they need in time to be 
of service to them. 
Special notice. All questions to be answered 
by me must be written on separate sheet of 
paper from the order sheet. All orders go di- 
rect to the filing clerk and all questions are- 
sent to my desk, and answered in a separate- 
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