GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
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Miller, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Bisexual. The Miller is one 
of the most popular berries for the family garden of 
its season. Great beautiful round berries of dark-red 
color, they please the eye at the first glance, and once 
their rich flavor is tasted they prove themselves an 
ideal fruit in every market. The meat of the Miller 
is of a smooth, melting texture, exceedingly rich, sweet 
and juicy. The productiveness of this variety, no less 
than its richness of quality, make it an ideal berry for 
home use and family trade. As a commercial berry 
it is too delicate for long-distance shipping, but no 
grower should fail to have some of this variety for his 
home use, and for his local market. The foliage is a 
light green, grows very tall and has extra-large coarse 
leaves. One strong point about the Miller is that it 
thrives everywhere, no matter what the soil ,or the 
climatic conditions. This is the eighth year we have 
had this variety in our breeding beds, and we do not 
hesitate to say that our strain of the Miller plant is 
without an equal. Do not fail to include some of this 
variety for home use when making your selection. 
Enormous, P. (Female) 
MEDIUM TO LATE. Pistillate. Enormous in size, 
it also grows enormous quantities of fruit, the big red 
berries growing so thickly that the vines are a mass of 
red. The berries are broad and wedge-shaped, with 
crimson colored surface, and dark-yellow seeds. The 
calyx is of light green, lying flat on the berry, and the 
stem remains green and fresh long after the berries 
are picked, thus aiding to retain a desirable appear- 
ance in the fruit long after the market is reached. The 
flavor of the Enormous is as excellent as its size is 
remarkable, and the meat is very juicy and rich. It 
is a popular variety for the family trade, and those 
who buy it once will buy it ever afterward. The 
foliage is very large, with broad, nearly round, light 
green leaf, and short, heavy fruit stem. This is the 
fourteenth year of selection and restriction in our 
breeding beds, and the fact that the demand for this 
variety grows with each succeeding year is the best 
evidence of its steadily increasing popularity. You 
will make a mistake if you fail to order generously of 
this most excellent variety. 
Found Cheap Berries Costly 
WRITING under date of February 19, 1908, W. O. 
Vanhorn, of Wathena, Kansas, says: "I want to 
tell you why I have not recently sent in my order to 
you for more of your good Thoroughbred plants. One 
of our berry men told me it was a mistake, all this talk 
about the breeding up of plants, and he induced me to 
try his plants. He had plants to sell from between the 
rows — little stunted plants. I set my patch twice 
from them, but did not get a stand, so I once more 
send to you for plants." 
Thoroughbreds Require No Expert to Grow 
Big Berries 
■n B. JENNINGS, of Cadillac, Mich., writes: "I 
hope ere another year passes on the wings of 
time to show to my neighbors and the world at large 
what can be grown from R. M. Kellogg Co.'s Pedigree 
strawberry plants. A man makes no mistake in pur- 
chasing your plants — there is no experimenting to be 
done, for you have worked twenty-five years along 
that line on scientific principles. It takes no expert to 
grow large berries if one will but follow the instruc- 
tion you give in your book, condensed as it is in a nut- 
shell. I wish you success in your good work." 
$78 from 1,000 Thoroughbreds 
A. HESSELBERTH, Dana, 111., writes: "When 
my plants bloomed this spring they were like a 
mass of snow. Everybody would make the remark 
that they never saw the like. You could see the blooms 
twenty rods away, and when the berries got ripe I 
filled up one of those big melon baskets which held 
fifteen quarts and took them to town. I asked a store- 
keeper to come out and look at them. He did so and 
asked me how much I wanted for them. I told him I 
wanted 15 cents a quart, and he gave me $2.25 for the 
basket of berries, and I went home rejoicing over my 
first sale from the thousand plants. We sold over 
$78 worth, besides what we used and gave away. I 
had berries that would measure six inches in circum- 
ference; I never had any trouble in selling them, and 
never sold a box for less than 15 cents." 
Don't allow plants in your fruiting beds to mat thickly. 
