King Edward, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM EARLY. Bispxual. This 
variety has won deserved fame in many 
sections of the country because of its 
great productiveness, and one year's 
trial in our testing plot has fully con- 
firmed all the claims made for it; hence 
we offer it to our customers. Not only 
is this a very productive variety, but in 
every way is it an attractive fruit. Al- 
most round in shape, dark red in color: 
its fruit unusually uniform as to size 
and rich in flavor, it possesses a variety 
of desirable characteristics that will 
make it popular wherever grown. It has 
a large calyx, talland lightgreen foliage. 
It certainlv should have a trial in every 
grower's field. 
Grown only at Three Rivers. 
Staples, B. (Male) 
EARLY. Bisexual. Last season we 
m ide our first shipments of Staples and 
the instant success which this fine variety 
has made is most gratifying. In 
many of its characteristics it closely re- 
sembles Warfield. but is a strong bisex- 
ual, whereas the Warfield is a pistillate 
variety. It is of perfect strawberry form, 
in color ranging from rich crimson to 
deep wine color. It also has the true 
strawberry flavor and is deliciously tart. 
The berries are not extremely large, but 
are unusually uniform in size and are 
ideal for commercial purposes. Those of 
our customers who have grown the Sta- 
ples on a commercial scale place itamong 
the first of the early varieties. 
Grown only at Three Rivers. 
Ohio Boy, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM EARLY. Bisexual. Yielding: 
large quantities of dark-red berries, the 
deep color extending from center to cir- 
cumference, and possessed of a flavor 
that wins instant favor, this variety is 
one of gi-eat promise. Although of com- 
paratively recent origin, Ohio Boy has 
won universal recognition in the straw- 
berry world, and after testing it out in 
our experimental plot, we are convinced 
that it is to hold a permanently high 
place. The foliage is dark-green, with 
a tough-tissue leaf; plants are hardy and 
vigorous. Do not fail to try out this va- 
riety if your trade calls for berries of 
uniform and fairly large fruitof unusual 
excellence. 
Grown only at Three Rivers. 
photographing for this book we always have se- 
lected the form which represents the largest num- 
ber of berries of a given variety. We mention 
this matter here so that our customers may un- 
derstand that very wide divergencies between 
the types of berries grown by plants of any varie- 
ty is entirely natural. 
Good Reports from Helen Davis 
WE have received so many flattering testi- 
monials to the splendid qualities of the 
Helen Davis variety that we take great 
pleasure in quoting a few of the voluntary state- 
ments that have come to us from those who have 
givf>n the Helen Davis plants a chance to show 
their mettle. It will be seen that the high claims 
we made for that variety when we first offered it 
to the public are more than justified by the ac- 
tual experience of those who have grown them: 
Sabetha, Kans.. April 15. 1912. "The Helen Davis plants 
I got from you last year are showing up as finely as I could 
wish, and I don't think there is a plant missing after the worst 
winter we ever had here. I had a poor growth on every other 
variety on account of the extremely dry weather last summer, 
but the Helen Davis seemed to come despite the fl i outh . 
Frank Hill. 
Chicago, 111., July 10, 1912. "In April 1911 you STt me 25 
plants each of Helen Davis and Senator Dunlap. I followed 
directions contained in 'Great Crops of Strawberries and How 
to Grow Them' to the letter. I adopted the double-hedge 
row and permitted four runners to mature from each of the 
original plants, carefully removing all surplus runners j'nd 
blossoms during the season of 1911. 1 also followed your direc- 
tions as to cultivation, spraying and mulching. These fifty 
plants yielded me this season between June 7 and July 4. 81 
quarts of beautiful, large, sweet berries. The Helen Davis 
plants grew to enormous size, one friend remarking. 'They are 
not plants; they are bushes,' I am very much pleased at my 
first attempt at growing strawberries." 
Mrs. Jennie G. Anderson. 
Elburn, 111., March 26. 1912. "The plants I received from 
you last spring have done well considering the dry season. 
This is especially true of the Helen Davis, which withstood 
the drouth remarkably well, much better than any other va- 
rieties 1 grew. I loBt only one plant out of the 25 you sent 
me. A. H. Sharp. 
Atco, N. J., Sept. 6. 1912. "The 200 Helen Davis plants I 
bought from you one year ago have produced 50,000 plants in 
two seasons' growth. There is a stamina in the Kellogg plants 
which is not only retained, but is further developed as the 
plants become acclimated." W. H. L. Openshaw. 
Photographing Our Strawben^ies 
ASTAWBERRY is averydifficultthingto pho- 
tograph. The flesh is red, the seeds yellow, 
and the calyx green. AH of these colors 
photograph dark. When photographing our ber- 
ries for this book we tried a new method whic h 
has eliminated the extreme high lights and, with 
the aid of our photographer and engravers, we 
think we have succeeded in reproducmg a straw- 
berry more natural than the berries shown in 
our previous books. While these photographic 
reproductions do not show the color of the fruit, 
they do show size and form of berries as pro- 
duced by the different varieties, and in a most 
accurate and faithful way. 
