FRANK E. BEATTY'S BEAUTIFUL^OME AT COVINGTOIT, IND. 
Beginning with scarce three hundred dollars and following the teachings of "Great Crops of Straw- 
berries and How to Grow Them" accumulates over twenty thousand dollars besides supporting his 
family in elegant style and then purchases an interest in the R. M. Kellogg Plant Farm and becomes 
its general manager. 
DESCRIBING VARIETIES. 
My friends sometimes write me: "I am be- 
wildered. You describe everytliing as the 
best. I don't know what to select." I frankly 
confess that of all the questions that come to 
me, none puzzle me so much. Every one is 
the best to some people and not to others. 
Suppose you have, say, fifteen hundred warm, 
personal friends whom you have known for 
years; (we have tested about that number of 
varieties) and out of them you wanted to se- 
lect fifty to especially commend to the world. 
You wanted the fifty you knew were better 
than the fourteen hundred and fifty culled out. 
Now, you wanted to describe each one so a 
person could take their pick out of the whole. 
To help along you attached a photograph of 
each person to each description. You could 
give height, weight, complexion, place of 
birth, etc., etc., but you could not tell what the 
friend would do when differently housed and 
fed and the kind of treatment you were to 
give him. Some men must be scolded, punched 
up every minute and fairly whipped into a de- 
cent day's work when they are perfectly capa- 
ble and will stand such treatment right along 
while another would fly into the air in a second 
at the first discourteous thing. Some of these 
sensitive people will stand a great deal of 
abuse, if you go at them right. 
Well, it's just the same with plants. They 
have their whims and fantastic notions. The 
purchasers have theirs. Some people are 
harsh with their plants. Some varieties will 
stand harsh treatment, if you go at them right 
and still will give bountiful crops. I have 
sometirnes felt that I would rather have the 
description of the man who was going to grow 
the plants than have the description of varie- 
ties and soil, because some persons fail under 
any circurnstances and some succeed under 
any conditions. 
The fifty-three varieties are National in 
their character and you cannot make a great 
mistake in selecting any of them after reading 
the description given and yet as already stated, 
you will like some better than others just as 
you like some human friends better than 
others. 
The only thing I can do in answer to all 
these questions is to repeat what I have al- 
ready said in the description given. I have 
my friends in the list, but they might not prove 
your friends. I cannot tell how you will 
treat them or about your soil and location. I 
do know that these plants are thoroughly de- 
veloped and are succeeding from the Arctic 
Circle to South America and all over the Con- 
tinent as well as Europe where any vegetables 
grow. 
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