R. M. KELLOGO'S GREAT CROPS OF 
PI^ANTS FOR THB SOUTH. 
All of the leading truck and berT3' growers in 
the south use only northern grown seeds and plants 
for the reason that the northern summers are very 
short and hot and they acquire the habit of ripen- 
ing their fruit several days earlier than the same 
variety propagated at the south. 
The new runners will retain these character- 
istics for three or four years so that southern plant- 
ers can get the benefit of this and propagate their 
own plants for that length of time and then renew 
their propagating beds with northern plants and 
thus be in the market everal da} s in advance and 
secure the high prices, making a big difference in 
profits with very little extra expense. 
The spring at the north being later than the 
south, plants remain entirely dormant that much 
longer and will endure shipment and transplanting 
in this condition with perfect safety and when put 
in the warm soil will spring into a fine growth at 
once. The old foliage of dormant plants is nearly 
all removed by trimming and packing and the new 
roots start immediately so the plant becomes es- 
tablished vrith feeding roots before it has foliage to 
be affected by the sun. 
We take up plants as soon as frost is out of the 
ground — usually about the middle of March. 
Northern growers cannot use southern plants 
successfully because they are in fruit in the south 
before ground in the north can be fitted for trans- 
planting. While dormant plants can be kept even 
weeks in mild weather by heeling in, yet, after 
they have commenced to grow, it is difficult to save 
them in this way. 
From points as far south as Maryland and Ken- 
tucky they are obliged to ship as early as February 
and March and even then plants have commenced 
to grow, so it is almost impossible to heel them in 
so as to keep them during the freezing weather of 
those months at the north. If shipments were de- 
layed until northern ground could be fitted, the 
fruit would be half grown and at this period there 
isa change in the roots so that they very rarely 
succeed when transplanted at that time. 
FAI,I, SETTING OF PI,ANTS. 
We wish it distinctly understood that we will 
not furnish plants for summer and fall setting at 
any price. People have sent here for plants in the 
fall, giving them no time to establish themselves 
and form fruit buds and roots. In the spring blos- 
soms start at once, taxing the resources of the 
plant to exhaustion because of lack of rootage, and 
the berries secured so deplete the vitality of the 
plant that only a moderate crop can be secured the 
following year, thus injuring my reputation as a 
breeder of thoroughbred plants. 
The value of Pedigree Plants is in the potency 
of their pollen and general ability to develop fruit 
and I must insist that they shall have a fair chance 
to demonstrate their good qualities; for this reason 
we have decided to furnish plants only for spring 
setting. 
Investigation has shown that when these Pedi- 
gree Plants have failed to produce great results it 
is because of bad handling, neglect, or lack of soil 
conditions necessary to enable them to do their 
work. 
cake; OF AN OlVD BFD. 
Plants grown in hills or hedge row will fruit 
heavily three or four years if good culture be given 
them and fertility is maintained. As soon as fruit 
is picked stir up the straw and get it dry and burn 
it off to kill insects and fungi and cultivate at once. 
The crowns of plants grown in this way being so 
prominent it is safer not to put much straw directly 
on the plants for burning. 
The full matted row should have the tops 
mowed off, not too close, and mulch stirred up 
so it will dry off and then wait for a high wind so 
the fire will pass over rapidly and burn all annual 
weeds, insects and fungi. 
I wish to emphasize three things: 
First. This burning must be done immediaiely 
after the picking season is over. The plants are 
now utterly exhausted The old leaves and roots 
die, a spark of life remaining only in the crown. The 
plant remains in this dormant condition only a few 
days, when iiew leaves .start and new roots come out, 
above the old ones. The old foliage is an injury to 
the plant because it is often more or less affected 
with fungi and the spores are liable to go to the 
new leaves and should therefore be destroyed. 
It must not be burned after this new growth 
starts, or the plants will be killed or greatly in- 
jured. 
Greenville. 
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