Mark Hanna, P. (Female) 
MEDIUM TO QUITE LATE. Pistillate. A 
large and most beautiful bright-red berry with spark- 
ling yellow seeds and light-green calyx. The flesh is 
scarlet, solid and very rich. As a producer it certainly 
is a prize winner; the big berries are in clusters like 
cherries. We wish their brilliant color also could be 
shown, then everybody would agree with us that Mark 
Hanna is a handsome berry. It has a flavor peculiar to 
itself, somewhat on the cherry order. The foliage 
grows tall and droops over to each side of the row, 
spreading apart in the middle of the row, thus allow- 
ing the berries which grow in the center to color evenly, 
the same as those on the outer edge. They require no 
petting, but will give a big crop of fancy berries under 
ordinary conditions. This is the fifth year of selection 
in our breeding beds and it is rapidly gaining in all 
points. 
President, P. (Female) 
VERY LATE. Pistillate. Speaking of presidents 
we have one of our own that wins out in every cam- 
paign. This particular President is beautiful in shape 
and its unusual colors of mottled pink and red which 
extends entirely through the berry, make it a tempting 
sight when neatly packed in the box. All who have 
grown this fruit send in another order and those who 
only see the fruit admire and purchase it. The berry is 
almost round and every one of them has a dimpled end. 
The calyx is unusually small for so large a berry; seeds 
are brown and yellow, giving a sparkling effect to the 
berry. It is very rich and mealy and is served most at- 
tractively when placed upon the table with stems still 
remaining. The President makes a very large foliage 
of light green, and its bloom is larger than is generally 
found on pistillates. This is the fifth year of selection 
and restriction and its strong points grow more apparent 
as we come to know it better. 
Found Thoroughbreds Entirely Satisfactory 
TFiE plants you sent me two years ago, were very 
satisfactory," writes R. E. Roberts of Emerson, 
Ohio. "The f-Iaverlands lay in handfuls along the 
row. We picked thirty-two quarts at one picking from 
one row of Bubach composed of 110 plants. 1 had 
only fifty plants of Glen Mary, off which we picked 
eighty-two quarts of the finest strawberries 1 ever saw." 
Pays to get the Best Only 
UNDER date July 2, 1907, A. A. Wattnar of Can- 
by, Minn., writes: "The strawberry plants re- 
ceived from you this spring are doing well. Everything 
was late here this season. When the plants arrived here 
there was a snow storm in progress and plenty of snow 
on the ground, so I kept them in the cellar about a 
week; yet ninety-seven out of the hundred plants are 
doing finely. I can plainly see that it does pay to buy 
only the good kind of strawberry plants. Shall send 
another order later." 
Old Customers are Growing Customers 
/'^NE gratifying fact about our business is the way in 
which our old customers come to us year after 
year. Under date June 30, 1907, one gentleman wrote 
us from Brooklyn, N. Y., the following: "1 shall 
prepare ground this fall for several thousand plants to 
be set next spring. I am one of the firm of D & C, 
who bought in 1905 forty-three thousand plants from 
your company." 
