A PERFECTLY BAI.ANCED WATCH. 
This watch was built upon honor by manufac- 
turers of reputation, and Is one of the highest grade 
watches in the world. Each delicate part Is made 
from the very finest material that can be produced, 
and Is put together by the most skilled experts; the 
majority of the parts are so small that they can 
scarcely be seen with the naked eye, but when proper- 
ly polished and adjusted. It l.s a regular network of 
perfectly balanced machinery, each part doing Its par- 
ticular work and keeping time that can always be 
depended upon. The value of a watch cannot be 
determined by its size any more than a strawberry 
plant can be judged in value by Its size; the true 
worth of a watch lies In the perfect time it keeps 
and a guarantee that Is backed up by the makers. 
will be sure to fail. The mulching serves to 
keep the plants back so you can fit your 
ground and still have dormant plants. 
You will need to have a larger bed for these 
pedigree plants because they do not send out 
runners early. They first throw up large 
crowns and make runners later, and will not 
make half the runners as a rule that common 
plants would make under the same tillage. 
VVe are often asked if plants of diflferent 
varieties set in the same bed will mix, to 
which we reply that the new plants might be- 
come mixed by the runners spreading out and 
becoming mingled as they take root; but each 
variety will bear its own particular berries re- 
gardless of other varieties that may be grow- 
ing near it. The seeds in each variety will 
mix or hybridize, and if these are planted new 
varieties would be obtained. 
The number of plants each variety will make 
depends on the soil, moisture and care given 
and especially the amount of nitrogen in the 
soil. As a rule the early varieties make more 
runners than the late ones. 
The propagating bed is a fine place to study 
plant life and get interested in it. You al- 
ways feel better and acquire a disposition to 
push things along when you find you are do- 
ing work in a systematic way and see big 
results in advance. A commonly bred pig 
will make pork, but a thoroughbred pig will 
make very much better pork and a good deal 
more of it according to the feed given it. Don't 
A PEBFECTtY BALANCED STRAWBERRY rLANl'. 
This strawberry plant was grown upon honor by 
experienced men of reputation, and is from a strain of 
the highest grade mother plants In the world; each 
delicate part is built up on the highest grade plant 
foods that can be obtained, and all phases of plant 
breeding by selection is carried out by the most skilled 
experts. The most valuable parts of this plant can- 
not be seen by the naked eye, but like the watch, is 
a regular network of perfectly balanced plant ma- 
chinery, and when properly trimmed and adjusted to 
the soil, each of these delicate parts start at once to 
do their particular work, producing the required effects 
that can always be depended upon. The value of a 
plant cannot be determined by its size any more than 
a watch can be judged by Its size; the true worth ot 
a plant lies in the quality and quantity of berries It 
produces, which depends on the strain of plants from 
which it was bred. 
allow yourself to believe there is not the same 
difference in plants. 
Selling plants is much like selling berries. 
When you grow berries so luscious and good 
that they will contribute more happiness and 
satisfaction to the purchaser than those grown 
by anyone else, you are dead sure of that 
person's patronage. 
Plants are judged by the fruit they bear and 
vvhen people see your big berries they judge 
rightly when they say big, luscious berries can- 
not be grown on poor plants, and so you will 
soon begin to have inquiries, and if your pro- 
pagating bed is conducted right you will grad- 
ually grow into a profitable business in this 
line. 
The demand for high grade strawberries in 
these prosperous times is something enormous 
and growing every year, so that the demand 
will always be greater than the supply. 
Money is useful when it brings happiness, 
and the fellow who can furnish the most pleas- 
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