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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1912 by R. M. Keilogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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Downing's Bride, P. ( Female ) 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Pistillate. Down- 
ing's Bride grows a distinctly fancy 
fruit. In color the fruit is dark blood- 
red and this color extends quite to the 
center, with only enough white at the 
very heart to make an attractive con- 
trast. The seeds are golden and shine 
as if burnished. This variety produces 
large quantities of beautiful fruit and is 
as delicious in flavor as it is beautiful. 
One other noteworthy characteristic of 
this variety is that the ben ies remain on 
the vines many days after becoming ripe, 
and they also retain their ireshness a 
long time after picking. It is a univer- 
sal favorite, and the fruit always com- 
mands hii^hest prices. This is the 
eleventh year we have carried this ex- 
traordinary variety in our lists. 
Grown at Three Rivers and Twin Falls. 
Clyde, B. (Male) 
EARLY TO LATE. Bisexual. For 
nineteen yea s we have propagated this 
extraordinary variety, which in point of 
prolificness, beauty of form and general 
excellence ranks very high among the 
varieties of its season. It is universally 
popular, but along the Pacific Coast it is 
rapidly assuming a place among the 
leading varieties grown in that section. 
One California grower, after testing 
more than fifty varieties, has for the 
last few years grown nothing but Clyde 
—a testimony to its e.xcellences of high 
value. Among its other qualities is its 
endurance as a long-distance shipper, 
and still another is its long fruiting sea- 
son, frequently extending f romextremely 
( ariy to very late ~ a point of highest 
value to the commercial grower. 
Is grown on all our farms. 
Enormous, P. (Female) 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Pistillate. Enor- 
mous takes its name from the lact that 
ic grows very lai-ge berries and very larye 
crops of berries. In color the beiry is 
ciimson in which are imbedded dark-yel- 
low seeds. Its flavor is fine and the meat 
is juicy and rich. It is a very popular 
variety in all markets which supply the 
family trade. This is the eighteenth 
year we have propagated Enormous, ard 
I he best test of its high value is its stead- 
ily increasing popularity with those who 
have grown it longest. The calyx of 
this variety is light green and lies flat on 
the berry. The stem remains fresh long 
after the berries are picked, insuring an 
attractive appearance after the fruit has 
reached market. Be sure and try our 
Enormous. 
Grown at Three Rivers and Twin Falls. 
Foundations of the Kellogg Company's Success 
THE R. M. Kellogg Company has been doing 
business for twenty-eiglit years, and it has 
grown steadily from small beginings to the 
largest strawberry-plant institution in the world. 
This growth is due to many things, chief of which 
may be named — 
First. We are distinctly Strawberry Specialists, 
and through long ti'aining and e.\pf lieiice liave 
learned how to produce the beststrawberr y plant-i 
in the world. We confine our entire energies to 
this single line of work, thus insuring the best 
expert attention at all times to the production of 
plants of the highest fruiting quality. The same 
care extends to the digging, counting, packinsj 
and shipping the plants, which is a guaranty of 
safe delivery of the jilnnts we ship. 
Second. Oar Special Service Bureau — the mis- 
sion of which is to aid our customers to attain the 
highest possible success in their work by giving 
them careful and detailed instructions as to the 
handling of their plants for highest re.sults. The 
work of this bureau includes proTipt replies to 
calls from our patrons for special information at 
any time. This has grown to be a distinguishing 
feature of our work, and the letters which come 
to us from those who have been encouraged to go 
forward to large success through our instructions 
and counsel is one of the most pleasurable 
elements in our large and steadily expanding busi- 
ness. 
Third. Our Square-Deal Methods of doing busi- 
ness, under which every customer may be abso- 
lutely confident that his order will receive the 
same careful attention that is given every other 
order, and that it is the purpose of this company 
to satisfy every reasonable demand of its patrons. 
Fourth. Our Absolute Freedom from any alli- 
ances with other lines of business or other nurser- 
ies. We are free to plant such vai ieties as we 
know will serve our patrons, to determine for 
ourselves the number of plants to be grown of the 
different varieties, and to price our products in 
relation to their actual value, and without con- 
sulting anyone else. We ship no plants to any- 
one save those grown upon our own farms and 
according to the Kellogg Way. 
We are proud of the fact that ve still have 
patrons on our list who have bought our plants 
for more than twenty-five years; to these ai.d 
other customers we need make no refeience to 
our business and financial standing. But for the 
benefit of those to whom this book is our first in- 
troduction, we publish the following letters from 
bankers who for years have been personally ac- 
