GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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Warfield, P. (Female) 
EARLY. Pistillate. The Warfield is favorably known 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Gulf to 
Hudson's Bay, and combines so many excellent quali- 
ties that it will be difficult to enumerate them all. It 
is a large, beautiful-shaped berry, with glossy dark- 
red exterior that does not fade or become dull after 
picking. This characteristic is continued even after 
it is canned, which is one reason for its great popu- 
larity the country over as a canner. The flesh is a 
rich dark red clear to its center; it is very juicy and 
just tart enough to give it a fine relish. The neat, 
slender stem and green calyx join the berry in such a 
way as to form a short neck, which adds beauty to 
the fruit. As a shipper it has no superior, finishing a 
long journey with the same bright lustre that marked 
it when packed freshly from the vines. An early 
berry, the Warfield has a very long fruiting season, 
yielding a large picking every day for several weeks— 
another reason for its great popularity. It also is 
exceedingly productive. This is its twenty-second 
year of selection in our breeding beds. See page 28. 
Thoroughbreds Thrive Under Adversity 
Q S. BROWN, of Greenacres, Wash., writes as fol- 
lows: "Two years ago last spring I sent you an 
order for plants and among them were some Clydes. 
I set them out and gave them the best of care, but 
neglected to mulch them. The following March we 
had a three days' blizzard from the northwest and 
when it was over my strawberry bed looked as though 
fire had run over it. The consequence was I had very 
few berries. But I took good care of the bed all through 
the season and last winter I put on a mulch of half- 
rotted straw and did not remove it until the latter 
part of March. Now for results: I harvested the 
largest crop of berries for the amount of ground I 
ever grew, and I have been growing strawberries for 
twenty years or more. My patch contained just one 
acre, of which only one-eighth was Clydes; the bal- 
ance were not your Thoroughbreds, but were Van 
Demans and Drought Kings, and I sold 250 twenty- 
four-quart crates for $550. I sold forty crates off five 
Don't set plants in furrovirs; for then the dirt 
Parsons' Beauty, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM. Bisexual. A general favorite because of 
its many excellencies. It makes a heavy yield of 
bright-red berries of mild and delicious flavor. As 
this fine flavor is retained after cooking, this variety 
is very popular as a canner. Its appearance com- 
mands immediate and favorable attention. Its seeds 
stand out upon the surface of the fruit more promi- 
nently than upon any other variety with which we 
are familiar, and the effect is very striking. The calyx 
is bushy and the stem is heavy. The foliage is up- 
right in form, with a rather long, dark-green leath- 
ery leaf. The plant makes very long runners. One 
of its strongest points is the fact that it is extra strong 
as a pollenizer. Another element in its favor is the 
fact that it succeeds in all soils and climates. The 
record it has made in the seven years it has been 
under our methods of selection and restriction leads 
us to recommend it with complete confidence to both 
commercial growers and for use in the family garden. 
rows 240 feet long of the Clyde variety. If the whole 
acre had been in your Clydes I would have had 320 
crates, so you see that would have made me more than 
$600 net to the acre. I presume more than 200 persons 
visited my patch and all declared that it beat anything 
they ever saw in strawberries. I expect to send you 
an order for 40,000 plants for next season." 
FARM JOURNAL 
1024 Race Street 
Philadelphia, Feb. 20, 1908. 
R.M. Kellogg Co., 
Three Rivers, Mich. 
T\^E have a letter this morning from Thomas B. 
Magee, of Browning, Montana, in which he says: 
"I have derived great benefit from your advertise- 
ments, especially the R. M. Kellogg Co., of Three 
Rivers, Mich., whose Strawberry Book is worth a hun- 
dred dollars to anvone interested." With best wishes. 
Very truly, 
WILMER ATKINSON CO. 
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