Lady Thompson, B. (Male.) 
EARLY TO LATE. Bisexual. A medium large 
bright red berry, shaped almo.st like a top, but does 
not run to a point; it is just a little blunt, which makes 
it all the more beautiful. The seeds are laid in very 
smoothly, which gives a glossy effect; it has a double 
calyx that opens gracefully over the berry ; the inner 
part is solid and meaty, with an exceedingly rich flavor 
and pink color. It is a splendid shipper, always get- 
ting to market in good salable condition; this is what 
makes it so popular in the South. 
The foliage is an extra tall, upright grower, with a 
long light green leaf, also extra long fruit stems which 
stand erect, holding their big berries well up from the 
ground. It is a deep rooter and keeps right on grow- 
ing through a drouth. Runners are long and abun- 
dant. For this reason it should be grown in double 
hedge rows; this method will give larger berries and 
more bushels than if allowed to mat up thickly; they 
also will be of better color. Soil only medium rich 
will produce a good paying crop, and with a little care 
in packing, by placing the top layer on stem ends, they 
are just as pretty as pretty can be. 
Every year in making our selections we find this 
berry gaining in good points, so good that we were un- 
able to fill all the orders that came to us for our strain 
of Lady Thompsons last year, but we are ready with 
a big stock this season. 
When this variety was first introduced it was princi- 
pally grown in tlie South, but of late years we are 
having big calls for it from many sections of the coun- 
try, and its popularity steadily increases as its virtues 
become more widely known. 
ONE of our patrons who combines Thoroughbred 
Pedigree strawberry growing with high-class poul- 
try raising is A. C. LeDuc of Chenoa, III. He writes 
under date of July 27, 1905: "From the one-half acre 
of strawberry plants I bought of you I gathered about 
eighty 24-quart cases. The quality was the best ever 
brought to this city, and when I commenced to deliver 
my berries to two grocers horc, it put all the other 
grocers out of the berry business, for th y could sell 
nothing but LeDuc' s berries. The 3,500 plants I 
bought of you last spring are looking finely." 
Bismarck, B. (Male.) 
LATE. Bisexual. A medium-sized, light red berry 
of very delicate flavor; one of the best table berries on 
the list; the inner part is a deep pink, extra "ich and 
meaty. It has bright yellow seeds which stand out 
prominently. For size and shape, see picture. It is 
very productive ; in th is respect it w ill equal any variety 
of its season ; the berries hold up well in shipping. The 
foliage is of a spreading nature, has a dark green, 
waxy leaf, very much resembling Bubach. It has a 
large perfect bloom and is an ideal pollenizer. The 
soil should be made quite rich. Set the plants two feet 
apart and let them form a double hedge row. Fifty 
bushels of wood ashes to each acre will brighten up the 
color and enrich the flavor. If the fruit is grown for 
market, place in row-s with stem ends down. This is 
the twelfth year our strain of these plants has been 
bred from ideal fruiters, so you may rely on their 
merits. 
ASubstknlial Packing House 
HERE is shown a substantial berry packing house. 
In such a building as this crates and boxes can be 
made up during the winter months when the weather 
will not permit working out of doors. It will be seen 
that the teams drive in the shed part of the building 
to load the berries, a valuable feature during storms. 
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