56 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers, Mich. 
Brandywine, B. (Male) 
LATE. Bisexual. Brandywine possesses just those 
qualities which make a universal favorite in the 
strawberry world. The berries are immense fellows, 
deep blood red to the center, and they possess a flavor 
peculiar to the variety itself. Bright-yellow seeds that 
are very prominent make a beautiful contrast with 
the rich red of the fruit. It is one of the best canning 
berries grown. Not only is this variety one of the 
largest and most beautiful, it also is one of the most 
productive. The calyx is very large and the fruit 
stems grow erect, holding the big berries up from the 
ground. The foliage is ample and of upright nature, 
with a dark-green leathery leaf, affording protection 
for the bloom. Many of its flowers open under the 
leaves, and thus are protected from late frosts. This 
is the sixteenth year Brandywine has been selected in 
our breeding beds, and each year notes a steady 
increase in popular demand. See page 23. 
Barnyard Manure for Strawberries 
jyjANY strawberry growers fail to compre- 
hend the value of barnyard manure to 
the strawberry, but if they will remember 
that barnyard manure has both a chemical and 
a physical effect upon the soil, while the best 
of commercial fertilizers produces only a 
chemical effect, they will begin to understand 
why it is we so persistently advocate the use 
of barnyard manure in the strawberry field. 
The first agricultural experimental farm 
ever created was that at Rothamsted, Eng- 
land, more than a half century ago, and there 
the most valuable experiments have been car- 
ried on since that time. On that farm it 
was found that the average yield of wheat 
for fifty years on land with no manure or 
plant food applied was 13.1 bushels, with 
heavy applications of farm manure each year 
Aroma, B. (Male) 
LATE. Bisexual. Aroma is another variety having 
a universal demand. And he who once has grown 
this fruit will always grow it. The berries are very 
large and are bright red to the center. The flesh is 
solid and smooth, and the flavor is richly aromatic. 
The berry is firm and it is one of the leading varieties 
as a long distance shipper. Its appearance in the box 
is most attractive, the yellow seeds imbedded in the 
bright-red flesh making it particularly attractive. 
These excellent qualities have combined to make the 
Aroma one of the most popular berries with the com- 
mercial grower, and in many localities it is the lead- 
ing late berry. Strong in pollen. Aroma is an excel- 
lent mate for late pistillates, the bloom starting to 
open medium early and continuing until quite late. 
The foliage is a smooth deep green, of spreading 
habit, which gives the sun a clear course to the 
crowns; its leaves are long, broad and clean. This is 
the seventeenth year we have selected and bred this 
great variety, and we can recommend it to our cus- 
tomers everywhere. See page 22. 
35.7 bushels, with commercial fertilizer with- 
out manure, 37.1. 
The effect of manure upon the phj'sical 
condition of the soil is more apparent in the 
United States than in England on account of 
our drier seasons, which require that the soil 
be put in such condition that it has greater 
capacity to hold moisture than is necessary 
where the rainfall is more evenly distrib- 
uted. Occasionally they have a dry season in 
England, as for example in 1893, when the 
wheat plots of Rothamsted that were treated 
with commercial fertilizers produced only 
21.7, while those where farm manure was ap- 
plied yielded 34.2 bushels. 
From this experiment it may be concluded 
that in humid districts, where there is ample 
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