Sti^awberries ^HovTo Ckow Them 
A. H. FINWEGAN IN HIS THOROUGHBRED STRAWBERRY PATCH 
■ymS IS a pho: i-engraving of Kellogg's Thoroughbreds as they grow among the big pines of Oregon in the field of 
A. H. Finm gan of Oregon City. Mr. Finnegan is an old-time customer of this company and leads the van in 
his section. Such a picture shows what may be done by a careful grower when only high-quality plants are used. 
they will send out numerous feeders and will 
make a much stronger root system than could 
be made if the roots were not pruned. And 
shortening the roots makes it easier to set the 
plants. In doing this pruning you simply take 
a pair of shears or a sharp knife and cut about 
two inches off the lower end of the roots. A 
full bunch of twenty-five plants may be pruned 
at one cutting. 
Mating Pistillate Varieties 
COME of the very best varieties on our list of 
^ strawberry plants are pistillates, and when 
they are properly mated they become enormously 
productive of high-quality fruit. When we say 
properly mated, we not only mean that the pis- 
tillate should be set with some bisexual of its 
own season, but the bisexual must be of a strain 
of plants that never has been weakened through 
pollen exhaustion. The Kellogg strain of bi- 
sexual plants has been selected with great care 
along this line, and this great quality in our 
plants is recognized by practical strawberry 
growers all the world over. 
A vigorous and well developed bisexual plant 
is certain to produce flowers of the same charac- 
ter, and such flowers insure large anthers, which 
in turn furnish an abundance of fertile pollen. 
In order to get the pistillate to do its very best, 
it should be set in rows between two bisexuals — 
one of a little earlier season, and the other of a 
trifle later season than the pistillate itself. 
For instance, the Sample is a medium-late 
pistillate, and the following would be an ideal 
way to set them to secure perfect fertilization: 
First, one row of Climax; second, three rows 
of Sample; third, one row of Pride of Michi- 
gan. This would place Sample between two 
bisexuals of different seasons. The pollen from 
the Climax flowers would pollenize the earlier 
bloom of the Sample, while the pollen of Pride 
of Michigan would supply pollen for the Sam- 
ple's later flowers. Not only would this ar- 
rangement be of great advantage to the Sample, 
but Pride of Michigan and Climax would ex- 
change pollen between themselves and this 
would greatly increase the yield received from 
these two bisexual varieties, as well as insuring 
more perfectly formed berries. 
You will observe that we have advised three 
rows of pistillates. This is not a set rule. You 
may use three rows each of Climax, three of 
Sample and three of Pride of Michigan; or 
one row of each of these varieties, just as you 
