GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOV/ TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1915 by R. M. KeUogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
AROMA. A STANDARD VARIETY OF GROWING POPULARITY 
AROMA is a late variety with a constantly widening: field. But especially is it popular in the Southern and Southwestern 
states where it is grown in almost unlimited quantities because of its reliability as a cropper of large and beautilul berries, 
that always command highest prices on the large city markets. The fruit of this variety is very large and bright red to the 
center The llesh is solid and smooth and the Havor richly aromatic. The berry is firm and it is one of the leaders in long-dis- 
tance shipping. The appearance of the fruit in the box is very attractive, the yellow seeds imbedded in the bright red flesh 
making it very alluring. Its many excellent qualities combine to make the Aroma one of the most popular berries with the 
commercial grower. Aroma is an excellent mate for late pistillates, as the bloom starts to open medium early and continues 
until quite late. This is the twenty-fourth year we have offered this great variety. Grown only at our Three Kivers farm. 
none of the nitrates come into actual contact 
with the plants themselves. Nitrates are very 
heating and will injure and perhaps destroy any 
plants with which they come into direct touch. 
Put on an old pair of gloves for the work and 
scatter the nitrates along the rows. The first 
application of nitrates of soda should be made 
iust as growth starts in the spring and this should 
be repeated just as the buds are bursting into 
bloom. One of America's leading horticulturists 
reports that by this treatment he brought up the 
yield for a third crop to 7,000 quarts of berries on 
a one and one-quarter-acre plot. 
Soil Samples Serve No Purpose 
■pREQUENTLY we are in receipt of samples of 
* soil from customers who look to us to tell them 
as to the richness or of the adaptability of their 
particular soil to the strawberry. Now, it is 
quite impossible for anyone to indicate the rela- 
tive amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potas- 
sium in the soil. These are the three principal 
plant-food elements, and all three must be present 
in the soil in order successfully to grow crops of 
any kind. However, not even a chemical analysis 
can absolutely determine the capacity of a given 
soil to produce crops. The surest soil test is the 
performance of the soil itself. Just remember 
that any soil that will produce a good crop of 
corn, or potatoes, or onions also will produce a 
good crop of strawberries, no matter where the 
soil may be located. If your soil is lacking in 
these three principal plant-food elements or any 
one of them, all that you need to do to put the 
soil in ideal condition for strawberry plants is to 
supply the soil with the elements that are missing. 
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