Strawberries and How He Grows Them 
AROMA (B). 
LATE. One of the %cry best extra late pollenizers 
and a splendid berry. Ueaiitiful in the bo.x and a box 
filler. A pedigree showing twelve years of selection and 
restriction has made it perfect in all its parts. The larg- 
est orders we have ever received for a perfect flower 
was for the Aroma which proves its iiopularitv. 
receives from it, always maintaining his per- 
sonal freedom is the American nobleman. 
Nearly all rich men are old men. They were 
born poor, but saved their earnings, adopted 
new metliods and machinery, they worked 
hard, plunging their earnings back into the 
business where it miglit make more money, 
keeping fully abreast of all improvements in 
their callings. They not only labor incessant- 
ly themselves because of their enthusiasm, but 
learn to direct the labor of others. 
I remember when steel rails cost $200.00 per 
ton. Andrew Carnagie improved the process 
of Bessemer, invented machinery and intro- 
duced new methods whereby he was able to 
produce steel rails at an actual cost of $12.00 
per ton and in that way accumulated many 
millions of dollars and then donated it to build 
libraries all over the country where the accu- 
mulated wisdom of the ages stored in books 
might be within reach of our children. 
Old Commodore Vanderbilt was a vegetable 
gardener on Long Island Sound and grew the 
finest garden truck found on the markets of 
New York. He took his produce to the city 
in a boat and so got to studj'ing how he could 
build a better boat for carrying passengers 
and so improved them that he received great 
patronage and soon owned so many boats that 
all the people honored him by calling him 
commodore. 
The old Hudson River railroad was a ram- 
shackle affair until Mr. Vanderbilt got hold of 
it and made it the finest railroad in all the 
known world and it soon made him money so 
he bought the New York Central and other 
roads and made them so luxurious that people 
love to travel over them and so lie by his con- 
triliutioiis to human happiness became the 
great railroad king and mtilti-millionaire of 
the world. Who regrets that Vanderliilt did 
all this? One of the grandsons, with all his 
GANDY (B). 
L.\TK. One of the most popular sorts. In many lo- 
calities the "(Jandy Association" have the markets all to 
tliemselves during its season. It ripens its berries nil 
at once, only giving two or three good pickings, but 
they sell at the top notch of the late season. Pedigree 
of nineteen years of continuous selection and restric- 
tion. Give it good culture and it will produce enough 
to satisfy any one. 
millions, put on the greasy overalls and fired 
an engine until he discovered defects and in- 
vented the best fire box which all railroads 
are now using, and with all this what shall be 
said of those who take the richest, the most 
delicious, the most general favorite, and the 
best fruit God ever created and discover the 
inherent weakness of the plant and teaches the 
people how to develop it and make it strong 
so it would make two "Big, Red Berries" grow 
where one little one grew before. 
My friend, do you want to be the most be- 
loved man in the community in which you 
live? If so, then adopt the twentieth century 
methods and grow the finest berries in the 
country. You need but little capital, a good 
deal of pluck and perseverance and you can 
win. provide luxuriously for your family, as 
Frank E. Reatty did, and accumulate a hand- 
some fortune for your old age. 
HOW TO GET RICH. 
To get rich you must do more for other peo- 
ple than they do for you. They will pay you 
for what you do for them and you must pay 
for what they do for you and your property 
and money shows the diflference or balance of 
trade. 
In the summer of 1861 I lived at New Ha- 
ven, Mich. Thomas A. Edison, the great in- 
ventor, was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk 
train between Detroit and Port Huron and I 
bought many papers of him and remember 
him very well as a little, hustling boy. He then 
had a lot of electrical devices fixed up in the 
baggage car and one day fixed up some stuff 
while he was making his experiments and had 
;in exjilosiop which came near killing the bag- 
gageman and Edison was discharged. The 
family was very poor then and had hard work 
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