GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
Copyright 1914, by R. M. Kelloggr Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
THE UNIVERSALLY POPULAR MARSHALL 
SOME varieties of strawberry plants have a universal popularity; others enjoy such prestige only in a com- 
paratively narrow lield. The oltl and faithful Marshall belongs distinctly in the former class. This 
variety has won more iirst prizes than any other at the famous Massachusetts Horticultural sliow; it lias a 
wide popularity in the middle states; in California it is almost universally grown, and in Oregon it has 
the distinction of topping the Poi-tUind market in three successive seasons. Marshall is one of the blood- 
red varieties that never fails to attract the eye and to satisfy the taste. It is doliciously sweet, generously 
prolific ana is in every way an ideal variety for extensive planting or home garden. Grown on all our farms. 
Some growers ask why they should set any 
pistillate varieties at all inasmuch as they must 
be set with bisexuals to insure a crop. Our 
answer is simply this: As a rule, most pis- 
tillate varieties are more hardy, surer croppers 
and more productive than bisexuals. They are 
not weakened by pollen secretion, because they 
produce no pollen. 
Second. They are not so susceptible to frost 
as bisexuals, because the pistils are not injured 
by the same degree of frost that will injure 
anthers. 
Third. Insects that work upon flowers pre- 
fer bisexual flowers rather than flowers of the 
pistillates. 
Fourth. A pistillate variety will not dete- 
riorate so rapidly under neglect and poor man- 
agement as the bisexuals. 
With this information growers will under- 
stand more fully the advantages of pistillate 
varieties and why their planting of pistillates 
should be very generous. 
The Kellogg way of mating varieties is to 
set three rows of pistillates between two rows 
of bisexuals, having one bisexual earlier than 
the pistillate and the other bisexual variety 
later than the pistillate. This makes a perfect- 
mating method, as it gives an abundance of 
fertile pollen throughout the entire blooming 
period of the pistillate. 
To make our method perfectly clear, we give 
the following example: 
One row Longfellow (B). 
Three rows Warfield (P). 
One row Senator Dunlap (B). 
Three rows Warfield (P). 
One row Longfellow (B). 
Three rows Warfield (P). 
One row Senator Dunlap (B). 
And so on. The Longfellow will be in full 
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