ROLLAND MORRILL'S 
B< autiful country home on his famous peach orchard at Benton Harbor, Mich. Mr. Morrill has made 
a fortune growing peaches and strawberries and he contributes his success to bud selection. He propogates 
all his own peach trees, selecting buds from trees of known fruiting vigor and gets a big crop of fancy 
peaches every year; his strawberry plants come from R. M. Kellogg's breeding farms, and are selected 
from mother plants of known fruiting vigor. Mr. Morrill also operates the Morrll Orchai-d Co., of Texas, 
consisting of 12.000 acres where fruits and vegetables are grown to perfection. Read what he says about 
thoroughbred strawberry plants. 
Benton Harbor, Mich., July 26, 1904. 
THE R. M. KELLOGG CO.. Three Rivers, Mich.; 
My Dear Sirs; The 14,000 strawberry plants I ordered for the Morrill Orchard Co., at Morrill, Texas, 
when visiting your farm last season made the best start and growth I ever saw for plants that had been 
shipped. They traveled over a thousand miles, and I don't believe we lost one per cent, of them from all 
causes. This only increases my faith In Thoroughbred Pedigree plants. 
Hoping to be able to visit your plant breeding farms again soon, and wishing you success, I am. 
Tours very truly, I^- MORRILL. 
THIS INSTRUMENT, THE CAMERA, HAS COB- 
BECTLV DEPICTED THE BERRIES 
SHOWN HEREIN. 
Our object In showing this camera Is to explain 
to the reader how we get these Illustrations so true 
to nature; they are not Imaginary, but actual photo- 
graphs of berries grown on our thoroughbred pedi- 
gree plants, made by Mr. Charles Silllman, photo- 
grapher of Three Rivers. Likewise all other Illustra- 
tions are made from photographs of the scenes they 
represent. 
This entire book Is written by us and contains 
only our own methods and not theories; Its teachings 
arc practical and common sense; every method sug- 
gested is followed out on our farms with results that 
are too well known to the horticultural world to 
need any comment. In teaching the berry grower 
how to grow big crops of fancy berries we recommend 
nothing but that which must be done In order to 
attain the results we ourselves have secured. No 
one can expect to reach the top step of the ladder of 
fame and fortune without following those who have 
already climbed It. One thing sure. It cannot be 
reached by those who stand at the bottom, criticising 
those who have attained It. We get a great deal of 
satisfaction from helping others who show a willing- 
ness to help themselves, by following intelligent In- 
structions. We love to give every enthusiastic fellow 
a boost; so Just pitch In and you can soon be able to 
show us berries as fine as these we are showing to 
you. 
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