Photograph of a Haverland Pedigree Plant which produced quarts of berries. 
A part of foliage was removed to show the berries. 
HOW I GROW GREAT CROPS OF 
SMALL FRUITS. 
For the past f ifteeti years I have produced 
the larg-est crops of the finest fruit, and I base 
my success on the high fruiting- vigor of niy 
plants, together with my improved methods of 
cultivation, as explained in the f ollowingpages. 
From the plats of each variety careful search 
is made for ideal plants or those showing the 
greatest tendency to make large crowns, stocky 
runners and healthy foliage. As many of 
these plants are found as possible and staked, 
and a record is made, based on one to ten, and 
from the one having the greatest record run- 
ners are potted and taken to a special propa- 
gating bed, and that becomes the parent plant 
of that variety on the farm. The ideal plant 
selected is allowed to mature a limited number 
of berries, to encourage and develop its powers 
in that direction and show the variations of its 
fruit, so we may score it in that respect. The 
next season plants for the fruiting fields are 
set from these runners, and again selected in 
the same way, so that we are constantly 
accumulating good qualities and discarding 
all weaklings or those varying in the wrong 
direction. 
Plants are male and female, and their sexual 
organs are perfect and have all the named 
parts of those of an animal, and fecundation 
takes place between them for the multiplication 
of their species. It is their intense passion for 
breeding, or seed bearing, which renders them 
impotent or unfruitful. 
Pollen exhaHStiow. This is the great source 
of unfruitfulness, and throughout the country 
I know of few plantations not suffering from it. 
The seeds are the eggs of the plant, and 
all fruit grows as a receptacle for the seeds to 
grow in and if the seeds are not fertilized no 
pulp or fruit will develop, or if the pollen lacks 
potency or strong life-giving power no process 
of cultivation will cause the plants to produce 
lat-ge, luscious fruit. 
You can increase the foliage and raise 
large numbers of runners, but when it comes 
to bearing fruit the irapotency manifests itself, 
and the plant remains wholly or partly barren. 
You have often seen your berry fields white 
with bloom, making a great showing of jlowers, 
but when the harvest came the largest part 
were too small to pay for picking. 
See that apple orchard, how beautiful it is! 
Every twig covered with bloom, " smothered in 
flowers," yet in a few days the ground is 
Seeds and Eggs. 
strewn with little embryo apples and the few 
remaining are gnarly and flavorless. What is 
the matter? The tree had no power to fertilize 
so many blossoms and of those poUenized the 
potency is so low the fruit could not fully de- 
velop. 
A light crop of apples always follows exces- 
sive bloom for several years or until the tree 
recovers. The largest crop of fruit always 
comes from moderate bloom, as was seen in the 
great fruit crop of 1896. 
PoUett exhaustion in strawberries. All 
the fruit buds of the strawberries are formed 
in the fall and are ready to burst into bloom as 
soon as warm weather appears in the spring. 
They are then taken up and transplanted and 
before their roots can become established to 
sustain the plant they are forced to undergo 
the great strain of pollen secretion. The con- 
stitution of the plant is weakened and its 
fruiting power greatly diminished. This is 
