R. M. KELLOGCS GREAT CROPS OF 
continued every year with the average grower 
until his plants "runout" or in other words 
have fruited themselves into impotency. 
There Bre certain 
plants which pro- 
duce fruit without 
seeds, as the banana, 
orange, pine apple, 
etc., but they are 
freaks. Nooneever 
saw a large luscious 
berry without the 
fullest development 
and vigor of the 
seeds. Take an apple 
with a shrunken side 
and cut into it, you 
will find no seeds on 
that side. Where 
seeds are lacking or 
are infertile in a 
strawberry, there is 
no fruit. See figure 2. 
The foliage shares 
in the weakness and 
falls an easy victim to rusts and other fungi 
which the plant, strong in fruiting vigor, 
would readily resist. 
A strawberry runner is only a bud of the old 
plant and contains all the weakness or diseases 
of the old plant and whatever tendency to bar- 
renness or making fruit buds they may have 
Fig 2. Lack 
Pollen. 
under your environments and soil, yet with a 
careful study of this pamphlet, aided by such 
pointers as I may be able to give you by corre- 
spondence, you may be reasonably sure of 
approaching it very closely. 
BUD VARIATION. 
All varieties of plants sport more or less; 
that is, they change from the usual type both 
in fruit and foliage. Sometimes they are 
larger, finer flavored and more desirable in 
every way. Then again they are much inferi- 
or. Tlie general tendency is to go back to 
the wild state. 
We may take advantage of this variation 
and fix our ideal of what a plant should b^', 
and every year accumulate good qualities by 
propagating year after year from those which 
vary in the right direction until they reach 
great perfection. Long continued selection 
will fix the characteristics of the variety so the 
tendency to reversion or going back to original 
tj'pe has disappeared. 
To say that one plant is as good as an- 
other to propagate from is as much of an error 
as to say that all animals are exactly alike for 
the purposes of breeding. 
A PEDIGREE PLANT. 
A pedigree plant may be defined as one pos- 
sessing the greatest number of good qualities 
in the highest perfection, which have been 
accumulated through the habit of bud variation 
in plants by long continued propagation from 
Undeveloped Strawberries, Showing Lack 
OF Potency in Pollen. 
will be found in the new runner except so far 
as it may be strengthened by being placed in 
new, rich soil. 
Prevention Is the remedy. Stock yout 
grounds with pedigree plants and prevent ex- 
haustion by setting in the spring while they 
are dormant and cutting off the blossom buds 
before they open. Keep off runners and give 
thorough tillage to induce the rapid formation 
of fruit buds the first year. 
For setting plants the next season take run- 
ners from the plants .set this spring and vigor 
can be maintained for many years. 
Few growers, even those who have been in 
the business for many years, have any concep- 
tion of the possibilities of a strawberry plant 
or the amount of fruit which can be grown 
from a single acre. 
Ottr crops have rarely gone below two 
hundred bushels per acre and often reached 
four hundred bushels and have exceeded five 
hundred bushels, and in all these years we 
have never had an unprofitable crop. While 
you may not be able to secure the same results 
The Original Hog. 
ideal plants, and by keeping them under restric- 
tion to prevent pollen exhaustion, resulting in 
great productiveness, ' health and vigor of fo- 
liage, and loss of tendency to reversion. 
A scrub plant is one low in fruiting vigor. 
Bred Up by Selection. 
variable, and in every way inferior. It gener- 
ally blooms quite full but is lacking in potency 
of pollen and with weakened pistils, its fruit 
does not set, or if berries do form the lack of 
stamina prevents them from attaining size and 
quality. Sometimes one berry receives the 
