AN IDEAL MOTHER PLANT, THE KIND WE BREED FROM 
This plant was bred from mother plant M. 5, last year, and was set in this year's breeding bed April 
20, 1904, and is known by same letter and number as its ancestor. The above photograph was made 
Sept. 30, 1904; making it a little over five months since it was removed from the mother plant. Kotice 
what strong and well developed offsprings come from it which proves that like begets like. In this 
short time it has built up eight perfectly developed crowns, besides producing fifty young plants with 
no vi rialions, showing conclusively, that a thoroughbred plant will build up crowns and strong runners 
at the sime time. Alter this plant was removed in April, its ancestor was allowed to fruit the follow- 
ing June, producing berries of the ideal type and superior in quality and quantity to any others in the 
row. This mother plant retains the markings of its ancestor and scores even better. 
If you are going to set a bed of Strawberry Plants this year, here are a few 
Questions to think over. 
1. Are plants which have been selected from a long line of IDEAL FRUITERS, thoroughly developed 
and perfectly balanced in all their fruit producing organisms, worth any more to you than plants 
commonly grown on the hit or miss plan? 
2. Are plants which have been thoroughly sprayed in the propagating bed, being perfectly healthy, 
worth any more to you than those which have been neglected in this respect? 
3. Are Thoroughbred Plants which hold the highest fruiting record in the world, worth any more to 
you than plants that have nevei made a record? 
4. Which is the best investment; to buy plants that have been bred up and are strong in their fruiting 
power, which cost one-half cent each and will produce two quarts of fancy berries, or plants that 
have been weakened by pollen exhaustion and careless propagating costing one-fourth cent and 
producing only one pint of second grade berries? 
5. Does it pay to use your valuable land and time on poorly developed plants which have been weak- 
ened from any cause, even though they were given to you? 
6. Which kind of berries sell best on your market and bring the best price; those of small inferior 
class or the big, fancy fellows? 
7. Do you want to grow more fancy berries on one acre than you have ever before grown on two? 
8. Do you want berries that will bring the highest price, and build up for you a high reputation? 
These questions are for your own consideration; think them over carefully and answer for your- 
self, whether it is cheap plants you want or big crops of high class berries, and if you want to grow the 
largest crops of fancy berries with the least labor use thoroughbred pedigree plants which have a 
perfect balance in foliage and fruit production. 
Start Right then Stay Right. 
We are exceedingly anxious for our customers to be the leaders on the market and it is easy to be 
the leader if you will start right and follow our instructions, bee that all plants aie trimmed before 
setting as shown on page 23 in Great Crops of Strawberries and How to Grow Them. The roots 
should bo placed straight down in the soil and the most practical tool we have found for this is the 
Dibble which we can furnish at 35 cents each or 3 for $1 00. Any man can easily set two or three 
thousand plants each day and do better work than with an) other tool. Wo have discarded all others 
and are using the D.bble exclusively on our farms at Three Rivers, Michigan.and at Covington, Indiana. 
They can be shipped with plants that go by freight or express. If you will use the Dibble and follow 
directions in setting thtese plants, you will have no vacancies in your rows. They are also valuable for 
Betting all kinds of vegetable plants. 
All orders should be sent in early; then you will be sure to get the varieties wanted. 
