THREE RIVERS POST OFFICE AND RURAIv ROUTES. 
The rural routes deliver plants by mail. Find an application for money order enclosed. Select tlie var- 
ieties desired and send in early and at the proper time the plants will be in your letter box as fresh and 
green as if you were not ten miles away. We send them across the ocean to Kurope, Nova Scotia, British 
Columbia and even to Alaska, South American comitries and far off Australia and New Zealand. Postage 
in United States five cents per do/.en, twenty-five cents per hundred. Canada, double these rates. Send this 
amount for postage with your order 
SEASON OF 1903. 
The only good thing about the season of 
1903 was fancy prices and crusliing demand 
and this would have been the same, if ideal cli- 
matic conditions had prevailed, for when high 
wages prevail the demand will always exceed 
the supply. 
Few old grey headed men will recall a sea- 
son so unfavorable as the past spring. In the 
West an April drought followed by dreadful 
floods and coldest June known with several 
killing frosts, when berries were in full bloom, 
and then cloudy weather much of the time, 
shutting off sunshine which is the mechanical 
force in plant growth and added to this were 
the continuous floods and we have the West- 
ern conditions. 
In the East floods in early April and then 
beginning in the middle of the month followed 
a drought of fifty four days with hot weather 
making it impossible to keep new set plants 
alive only by most careful setting and fre- 
quent tillage and this followed by cold rains 
througout the season, while at the South a 
protracted drought did much damage. 
Thoroughbred Pedigree Plants showed their 
breeding under these trying circumstances. 
Possessed of a strong constitution and a 
perfectly developed fruit organism they were 
not to be defeated by a first, second, or third 
heavy freeze, but proceeded at once to build 
up a new set of buds each time and gererally 
produced a heavy crop despite wind and weath- 
er just as they always do on rich ground and 
under good tillage. As a general rule, where 
first buds were killed by frost and more es- 
pecially the second and third time, the berries 
will not be so true to type and always more or 
less deformed. 
We ought not to expect another bad season 
to follow the two poor ones just passed, but 
rely on timely rains and sunshine and quality 
and ])rosperity for big prices. 
DOLLARS AND "SENSE." 
It is important that you comi^rehcnd the 
difference in profits between intensive fruit 
growing as taught in these pages and the com- 
mon methods of the average fruit grower. 
Take one thousand bushels of berries as the 
basis of calculation for comparison. 
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