A SPECIMEN DISH OF OUR GLEN MARY BERRIES 
GLEN MARY is one of those universal varieties that grow more popular year by year. There are few other berries having 
a wider habitat than this variety, and it is strictly correct to say that it is every where successful from Maine to CaHfornia 
and in far away British Columbia as well. A heavy grower of biir. dark red beauties, its popularity is not to be wondered at. 
The berries are inset with bright-yellow and very prominent seeds which give them a beautiful appearance in the bo.t. As a 
shipper it has no superior and this makes it exceedingly desirable in the commercial grower's field. Glen Mary, although a bi- 
sexual, is not a strong pollenizer and we recommend that it be set with Wm. Belt. The constant increase in orders year by 
year has led us to grow a very large number of this variety for 1913, and we expect to be able to fill all orders that come to us. 
plant will be, of course, as the production of the 
runner plants draws heavily upon the physical re- 
sources of the mother plant. With this explana- 
tion it will be easily understood how important it 
is that restriction be used and the number of run- 
ner plants be limited to actual requirements. 
Some varieties make very long runners; other va- 
rieties, short ones. Wherever a runner forms a 
bud or node and seeks to strike its roots into the 
soil, help it to do so by placing a little soil, when 
hoeing, just back of the node or bud. Not on- 
ly will this be an aid to the young plant, but it 
will relieve the mother plant of supplying susten- 
ance to the runner plant and will hasten the time 
when the new plants will become entirely inde- 
pendent. 
NOW you have the ground thoroughly prepared 
and your plants in hand, and we have reached 
the important operation of setting out the plants. 
This is not a difficult operation at all, and to 
one who is in practice, an easy and simple task. 
One having many plants to set would better pad 
his left knee with a piece of burlap or something 
of that sort so that he can get right . 
down to earth in doing this partic- f.^"™'''?"' 
ular job. We use a dibble for set- ^""^ '^'""'^ 
ting plants and never have found anything to 
equal that simple little instrument in handling 
the plants at setting time. One of our friends, 
W. S. Wolf of Tabor, la., wrote us in April last 
as follows concerning the little implement: "The 
dibble is great for setting out plants; would not 
know how to get along without it now." That 
exactly expresses our sentiments, and we believe 
if you will try the dibble when setting plants you 
will find it the most convenient little tool ever in- 
vented. We carry the plants in a basket, one 
end of which is hooded so that the hot rays of the 
sun will not strike the roots of the plants while 
they ai-e out of the ground. Such little atten- 
tions as this have very much to do with making 
success with strawberries. Use the dibble to 
make the opening in the soil and to close over the 
