GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by R. M. EelloKg Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
JOE JOHNSON, A REMABKABUS LATE VARIETY 
T^HIS is a fine addition to tlie ilst of extremely late bisexuals, and promises to become a universal favorite. 
It was originated in Maryland, and comes to us with the highest recommendation from its sponsors. The 
fruit is very large and beautifully formed; its color is brilliant red, and as the calyx is bright green the 
contrast is striltingly beautiful. The flavor is delicious, and it is equally desirable as a table or canning 
berry. It is a strong bisexual and an excellent fertilizer of pistillate varieties. As a shipper it is excelled 
by no variety known. It is a generous plant-maker, which is a favorable distinction when compared with 
Chesapeake, as the latter variety makes few runners except in very fertile soils. One of the leading 
nurserymen in the east says of this variety: "The Joe Johnson will without doubt become the leading late 
bisexual variety as soon as enough plants can be grown to get it well introduced." One grower who has 
tried it out thoroughly says of its performance in 1914: "Joe Johnson showed up splendidly again this 
summer, bringing top prices every picking." Everyone should test ouc this extraordinary variety, 
which is grown only at Three Rivers. The value of trying new varieties may not be over-estimated. 
bility as to good plants, true to name, has 
won us. If I were setting out a field of fifty 
acres, you would get my order." 
Thousands of our customers have only a 
limited area in which to grow strawberries, 
but they get a lot of satisfaction and no 
little amount of cash out of their work along 
this line. Writing us in April, 1914, Fields 
M. Duncan of Liberty, Mo., says: "I re- 
ceived the shipment of strawberry plants on 
the 8th that you shipped on the 6th. They 
were in perfect condition, owing to your 
careful packing, and they had the finest roots 
and crowns I ever saw on plants. Two years 
ago I set out 100 plants each of Senator 
Dunlap, Bubach and Gandy, and last sum- 
mer we picked fourteen crates of twenty-four 
boxes each (336 quarts) besides the quantity 
consumed by the family. This year I am 
testing out seven others of your varieties, 
and shall send you a report after they fruit. 
Thanks for your courteous treatment." 
In the spring of 1913 we sent an order 
of plants to Randall Culite of Honing, Eng- 
land, and under date of May 9, 1914, Mr. 
Culite wrote us as follows : "You will proli- 
ably like to know how your strawberry plants 
arrived. Considering the distance they had 
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to come, and the lateness of the date I 
ordered them, they have done very well in- 
deed. They are not all alive, of course, but 
I shall have a nice lot, and when they are 
filled up with runners they ought to form a 
first-class bed. The roots certainly are 
capital, and I think it does you credit, get- 
ting them over here in such fine condition." 
And Madame Lombard, who dwells in the 
beautiful chateau of Trevano in southern 
Switzerland, wrote us December 26, 1913 : 
"The strawberry plants arrived on the 19th 
in a temperature of summer time. They 
were a trifle dry (the customs officials held 
them for two weeks), but I am sure the bulk 
of them will be flourishing and strong. The 
old plants (those shipped in the spring of 
1913) have blossoms and fruit on them now, 
the weather is so warm." 
We might go on and fill the book with the 
cheery words that come to us from our 
customers. That we appreciate and value 
tliem we need not say. They come to us from 
every section of our own land and from many 
remote sections of the earth. They express 
tbfi pleasure taken with our plants, and they 
tell us of the confidence they have in our 
methods, as to the horticultural practices em- 
