Clark's Seedling, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM EARLY, Bisexual. One of the leading 
varieties on the Pacific coast. It is deep red to center, 
quite large and of beautiful form as shown in picture. 
It is a splendid canner and shipper; also very produc- 
tive. The foliage is medium large, dark green and 
makes lots of runners, Clark's Seedling always brings 
good prices wherever they are grown, and we should 
like to have our customers add a few of these plants to 
their order. This is the third year of selection and re- 
striction in our breeding beds and results are most sat- 
isfactory. 
Nothing Else So Good As Our Thoroughbreds 5 § 
A T Monroe, Mich., is the Lavender Fruit Farms, the 
owner of which is Harry Lavender. Under date 
of August 5, 1907, he writes us as follows: "You may 
like to know how I came out with the 600 pedigree 
plants I set out in the spring of 1906. I need not tell 
you of the peculiar season we have had; all vegetation 
is off, as you know; but my 600 pedigree plants did 
first rate, and 'don't forget it' that this Englishman and 
his family had their fill of strawberries, first of one kind 
then of another until it was difficult to decide which was 
best. Not only this, but we sold a lot of strawberries 
from the patch at 25 cents per quart. It pays to grade 
them. We grade all the fruit and put the small over- 
ripe fruit into cans, and we have a ready sale for them, 
making more than we do off the finest graded fruit, I 
shall need a large number of plants for 1908, and I 
want your plants or none at all, as I am convinced that 
there is much in what you say as to the pedigree plants." 
Keep the Propagating Beds Separate 
D EMEMBER that no strawberry plant that ever has 
^ been allowed to fruit should be used for propagat- 
mg purposes. A majority of our successful strawberry 
growers find the best way to keep their fields up to 
high state of productivity is to purchase their plants 
from reliable plant dealers, whose products may be re- 
Hummer, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM EARLY. Bisexual. A new variety of 
great promise. This variety was first discovered some 
thirty miles north of the Kellogg farms, and though this 
IS its second year only in our breeding beds its splendid 
performance has won our admiration and confidence, 
and we have no hesitancy in adding it to our list. Berries 
are extra large, quite round in form, attractive in color 
and rich in flavor. It is a good yielder, and its record 
where grown in past years proves it to be a good shipper. 
Foliage is light-green, growing tall, and there is good 
balance between fruit and foliage. The Hummer is a 
medium plant-maker, producing a stocky and hardy 
plant with broad leaves. Runners form their first nodes 
about a foot from the mother plant, making it easily 
handled in the fruiting bed, 
lied upon, but to those of our friends who would prefer 
to propagate their own plants, we say, do not fail to 
separate your propagating bed from your fruiting bed. 
The plants may be set in your propagating beds just as 
you would set them for fruiting bed save that you would 
double the space between plants. But as you are to 
grow plants instead of fruit, you will permit all run- 
ners to mature that start from the crown of the mother 
plant. In selecting the ground for the propagating bed 
avoid, low, damp soils, as they are inclined to stim- 
ulate unduly the vegetative parts of the plants at the 
expense of the fruit organism, and plants grown in the 
heavy damp soil persist in making runners when set in 
the fruiting beds, while very little fruit results. Select 
a sand loam for your propagating bed. Make it mod- 
erately rich, and see that thorough tillage is given them. 
Layer the plants so they will root as soon as formed and 
be very sure to keep them spread out so every leaf will 
be fully exposed to the sunshine. The cultivator and 
the hoe must be liberally employed. Use a sharp point- 
ed hoe with which to work close around the plants and 
thus break up the crust, using great care that the plants 
be not disturbed. A runner will not develop a large 
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