BELIEVES IN THOROUGHBRED PEDIGREE PLANTS. 
HERE is a picture of I.. R. Wallcer's "patch" of Kellogg's Thoroughbred Pedigree strawberry plants, grown 
on newly cleared land at Alderson, W. Va. , and in the following letter he gives an account of his experience 
with these plants and his view of their value as compared with plants received from others: "R. M. Kellogg Co. , 
Three Rivers, Mich. I desire to say that I can endorse every claim you make for your Thoroughbred Pedigree 
strawberry plants, for I have given them a severe test. Warfield, Lovett, Senator Dunlap and Excelsior are the 
varieties I have tried. I have grown the Kellogg berries right along with others of the same varieties received 
from plant growers. I find in the first place that the Thoroughbred plants made several new crowns before 
sending out runners, while the plants from other nurseries send out runners before they are strong enough to do 
so; and I also find when runners are clipped off another crown shows soon after on the Kellogg plants, while on 
others you may look for more runners only, and generally they are very weak. I have made observations all 
along through the plant-growing season, and can tell the Thoroughbred plants by the foliage. Even strangers 
who visit my garden make remarks concerning them as if they were of another variety. I answer, "Not another 
variety, but different in their breeding." Then I try to explain to them just what that means. This is not all: 
the pickers tell the difFerence in their wages, as I do, in the amount received for berries of the same varieties and 
grown on the same sized piece of ground, but which came from other nurseries. I w ill say that one-third more 
berries and of better quality are gathered from the Kellogg Thoroughbred plants than are picked from other plants 
as usually sold by plant growers. I will also say that we have a new business here in berry raising and have 
many visitors. I take pride in showing those who are interested the difference in plants, and some of them say 
they will want your book on "Great Crops of Strawberries and How to Grow Them." Be assured that I will 
recommend to all who intend to raise strawberries the investment of a few dollars in Thoroughbred plants." — Yours 
for business, I.. R. Walker, Alderson, W. Va., July 24, 1905. 
the pistillates are more prolific than the bisexuals, 
and generally their flowering period extends 
through a long season, which makes it quite 
difficult to get a male of the same season as the 
female that will start blooming with it and con- 
tinue right through. For this reason best results 
will be obtained by using two males of different 
seasons for each female; for instance, when grow- 
ing an early pistillate, set one row of extra early 
bisexual, then three rows of the pistillate and the 
next rows of some mid-season bisexual. This 
overcomes the possibility of shortening the crop 
from improper mating. It sometimes happens 
that all three of these will ripen a large per- 
centage of their berries at the same time, and to 
avoid mixing them when picking, have the pick- 
ers go over one variety at a time. In this way 
each kind is boxed and shipped entirely separate 
from the other. This requires a trifle more 
precaution during fruiting time, but it pays big 
in the end. Experience has taught us that we 
cannot always depend upon any variety matur- 
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