SAHDPUB. 
OREGON ERON CLAD. 
LiATE. Pistillate. Well It has an appropriate 
name all right, for every berry Is fit for an ideal 
sample: the great, big, rich, red, top shaped beauties 
are so Inviting that they are generally bought with- 
out asking the price. Anyone that could still feel 
stingy after seeing a box of these berries is past re- 
demption, and if the size and color fall to tempt 
the customer just slip one into his mouth; a sale Is 
made and a steady customer through the season. It 
Is a grand treat to see them throwing up their beau- 
tiful green foliage with such long leaf stems; they 
seem to be reaching up to catch the sun's rays, spread- 
ing just a little to let the sun kiss the berries' cheeks 
to make them blush. The season of ripening is long 
and the donation of berries is large every day for 
several weeks. The test in our trial bed at Coving- 
ton, Indiana, on different soil and under different 
climatic conditions, gives it as many good points 
there as here; It succeeds equally well everywhere 
we have had reports from. Its record of breeding 
is nine years, and the improvement by selection gives 
It several points better than last year. 
N2VER A GLUT OF FANCY STRAW- 
BERRIES. 
The up-to-date growers of fancy strawber- 
ries have better chances for making money 
now than they ever had before; the entire 
country is prosperous, with labor everywhere 
employed at good wages, and nearly everybody 
is making money. Strawberries are no longer 
considered a luxury, but rather a part of the 
necessary daily food, and the demand for a 
fancy grade of fruit is much greater than the 
supply, and the fellow who goes into the busi- 
ness with a determination to grow the best is 
the fellow who is going to mai^e money. Only 
a few years ago a groceryman would only sell 
one crate of berries a day; now that same deal- 
er sells from eight to ten crates each day and 
double this amount on Saturday. There is no 
reason that we can see why the market will 
ever be glutted with fancy berries. While 
visiting diflferent markets this year we found 
a good supply of small berries selling at a 
small price, while the fancy stock was going 
fast at more than double the price of the small 
VERT LATE. Bl-sexual. Originated In Oregon 
and exclusively grown in many localities there, and 
It is creating quite a sensation wherever Introduced. 
The berries are large, dark red, of high quality, shows 
up lich when placed nicely in the box It is quite pro- 
ductive and is almost sure to be one of the standard 
varieties. Late blooming and large foliage makes it 
almost free from danger of frost. The scramble for 
these plants last year made it impossible for us to fill 
all of our orders for it. We have more than doubled 
our acreage for this year. This makes tlie third year 
of selection, making rapid gains in all points. You 
can safely give this variety a liberal trial; it is sure 
to please. 
ones, and the growers of these fancies could 
not fill half their orders. We get many letters 
from growers who are following our methods 
reporting that they cannot supply half the 
demand for their fancy fruit; the more they 
increase their acreage, the more their cus- 
tomers' appetites increase, and it just seems 
impossible to satisfy their longings for this 
best of all berries. There are so many val- 
uable receipts now for preserving and canning 
berries that almost every housewife fills her 
cupboard with them, put up in all styles for 
winter use. People are no longer satisfied 
with them merely throug the fruiting season, 
but must have them the year round. No 
grower need fear the market so long as he 
continues to grow fancy berries and to pack 
them honestly; it's the- fellow who insists on 
setting weak, devitalized plants and grows 
inferior fruit who has to hunt for customers, 
selling at whatever price people see fit to offer 
him. It is certainly interesting to stand in 
front of an up-to-date grocery, where there is 
a crate of fancy, select berries setting beside 
a crate of small, inferior ones, and watch the 
people stop and gaze at them, invariably pur- 
chasing the best, and although the fancies 
are more than double the price of the others 
they disappear like snow in the hot sun. The 
eye has a wonderful influence on the stomach 
and the stomach seems to have full control of 
the pocketbook. 
