Watertord, N. Y., July 31, 1904. 
R M. KELLOGG CO.. 
Dear Sirs: As my fruiting season Is over. 1 thought 1 would write and let you know of my success. 
Last year I sent a $1.00 order for plants, receiving 101 plants, and on account of the severe drought of 1903, 
not raining for 44 days, seven plants died, leaving 94, which I did not allow to make any runners, and 
by this method the plants made a wonderful growth, forming from six to seven crowns. When fall 
came. I covered the plants with straw. I picked 90 quarts of berries, pronounced by everyone the Dnest 
berries they ever saw, holding their good size until the last berries were picked. I would have had a bet- 
ter report for you if It had not been for the rain, which came Just as the berries were at their best, and 
lasted for several days, causing a large quantity of berries lo rot. and then there were some stolen. I am 
very much pleased with my success, which was all due to the teaching of your book, which I have received 
for three seasons and prize very highly. 
Thanking vou for the favors nr ihe past and wl.shlng you success in the future, I remain. Yours, 
GEO. E. LEE. 
How to Heel in Pl.int3. 
CARE OF PLANTS. 
A postal card will be mailed to you when 
the plants are shipped, so you should be on 
the lookout for them. Our system of packing 
is the most perfect that can be devised, and 
plants the last season were shipped to the 
most distant points without the loss of a 
plant, and if you give them the same care that 
we do here every one of them will grow. 
When you receive the package, if you are 
not ready to set them out, do not leave them 
in the package, but heel them in by digging 
a small trench in some shady place, and put- 
ting in plants as seen in engraving. 
HEELING IN PLANTS. 
Before opening the package give them a 
thorough wetting before exposing the roots 
in putting them in the trench. Do not wet 
them until you are ready to take them out. 
Put the whole package into the water for a 
few minutes or pour water on' it slowly until 
you know that every root is soaked, and then 
heel them in at once. Put a few plants in the 
trench and spread them out and put the soil 
on thinly, and press it in among the roots, then 
another layer of plants. 
Keep the labels on the plants and exercise 
extreme care not to mix the varieties. Every 
bunch has a label on it, and these should be 
stuck in the ground so there can be no mis- 
take. The plants can be kept in the trenches 
for a long time, if the weather is not suitable 
for setting them. Do not wet Ihcm too much 
so as to bake the soil on top. The ground 
must be only moist. If early in spring, and 
indications are for a heavy frost, spread an 
old blanket or put some straw over them. 
While a strawberry will endure shipment 
from ocean to ocean and even foreign ports, 
when skillfully packed in spaghnum moss, yet 
