GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES aI^D HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R M. Kellogg Co ; Three Rivers, Mich. 
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AMERICUS, EVER-BEARING. B. (MALE) 
T^HIS extraordinary variety was originated in 1905 and^has .ade a very unu-a, «co^d during t^^^^ 
1 ia heart-shaped, 1 ght red as to <=°1»'' of a hne Arm tex^^^^^^^^ p^nts prodS by the mother plants, continue to produce 
plants commence fru.tmg m July and th^y. toBeth<=' J^i'^ t^^^^^ ^ The plant is medium sized, has a good, 
fruit until cold weather checks them. E\P<ic.ally fam^^^^ shiny surf aif remfrkably free from disease. The plant is a free 
strong, heavy root system. Fohage is I'srht green us July 1. 1912: "Americus never 
plants I ever had. I certainly would not think of 
using any oiher but yours. I can buy plants here 
for less money, but they are the more expensive 
in the long run," 
L. J. Rounds, of Vestal, N. Y.. evidently 
appreciates the meaning of quality as a re- 
sult of actual experience, for he writes when 
remitting $34.00 for Glen Mary and Wm. 
Belt plants May, 2, 1912: 
"I lost two years' crops by using inferior plants 
before I ordered from you, and have learned the 
value of pedigreed plants. Am well pleased with 
the square deal you give your customers." 
J. Sigvaldson, of Butterfield Minn., also 
has occasion to regret his purchase of "cheap" 
plants, finding them, indeed, very costly. He 
wrote us under date of April 14, 1912 as fol- 
lows: 
"I have your catalog of 1908, and I then in- 
tended to order some plants from you, but got 
some from another place— got them cheaper than 
I could get plants from you. But I have had no 
success, and now I am going to order from you. " 
We might multiply these letters, for the 
alluring offers of the "cheaper" fellows lead 
many growers to their undoing; but these ex- 
periences ought to convince all who seek for 
quality in plants, which means financial sue- 
all over the land are successful growers who 
write us tiiat Kellogg plants and the Kellogg 
way have been the foundation upon which 
they have built firm and lasting prosperity. 
Writing us under date of July 23, 1912, 
F. A. Badger, who for years has been an ex- 
tensive grower of strawberries for market at 
Belmont, N. H., says: 
"Perhaps you are still interested in people you 
helped onto their feet some years ago, when 
even some of the well-meaning people of this sec- 
tion thought we ought to be restramed from tool- 
in" away our time on little berry bushes for fear 
we might become town charges. But that is all 
changed now, and people say, 'You were right 
after all!' And though we are in no danger ot 
being barred out of Heaven on account of our 
great wealth, it (strawberry growing) is better 
than anything else we have struck; and, better 
still, we like it!" 
That there are two ways of considering 
"cheapness" is indicated in the two letters 
that follow: 
Frank Fike, Chariton, la.: "Mr. Adams here 
tells me he has ordered plants from you for years, 
and finds you have the cheapest in the end. 
Swithin King, Dundee, Ont. : "I had experience 
with your plants three years ago, and must say 
they were by far the most satisfactory lot ot 
