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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers. Mich. 
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plants of an ideal type for propagating pur- 
poses. Productiveness, healthfulness and pur- 
ity ever have been our aim, and our Thor- 
oughbreds have won prizes or honorable men- 
tion in nearly every agricultural county in 
the United States, and in every province of 
Canada, as well as in several of the European 
countries and Australasia, they are famous. 
One of our old-time customers from Wiscon- 
sin moved to Cuba. We received an inquiry 
from her for a catalog, and in writing she 
said that as soon as the catalog arrived she 
would send us an order for plants. We re- 
plied that as the plants would have to go so 
far by boat we would rather ,'5he would send 
no order. But she was not thus easily put 
off, and we quote her next letter: 
"San Claudia, Cuba, Dee. 29, 1908. 
"I received your letter today saying you did 
not ship plants to Cuba. I wish to say that we 
can not and will not plant any but the Kellogg 
plants. If you will pack them as carefully as the 
Kellogg plants always have been packed for us, 
we will run the risk. They will reach Havana in 
seven days by express, and we will be there to 
receive them. One shipment of Kellogg Thor- 
DIGGING THE 
PLANTS 
oughbreds that came to us when we were living 
in Wisconsin was delayed enroute and was three 
weeks in reaching us. They were in fine condi- 
tion—never lost one plant. Let us know what 
you will do at once, so we may send in our order. 
Mrs. H. R. Palmer." 
We immediately advised her that we would 
ship the plants, and back came a $20 order. 
Mrs. Thompson referred to our methods of 
packing plants. Here is a letter from an- 
other customer who appreciates our methods 
of packing and shipping plants: 
"The strawberry plants shipped by you ar- 
rived in fine condition. Mr. Thompson desires to 
express his pleasure at the receipt of such hardy, 
vigorous, healthy-looking plants. What impressed 
us most of all was the manner of packing for 
shipment— it is superior to anything we have ever 
seen. Not one broken root was detected nor any 
plant with small rooting. While the bunches 
were very compact, the roots were not matted or 
felted together as is frequently the case. The 
long roots with a multitude of delicate fibers; the 
moss that keeps the roots moist; even the tying 
of the bunches and the complete package— all 
PACKING THE 
PLANTS 
show that you have made the packing of plants as 
much of a study as we have the packing of chicks. 
"Yours truly, 
"The Ohio Hatchery & Mfg. Co. 
"Bellevue, Ohio, April 29, 1909." 
The New Varieties We Offer 
THIS season we offer to our customers six 
new varieties, every one of which already 
has won high reputation and in whose 
great value we have the utmost confidence. 
The past few years have been prolific in ex- 
cellent originations, and from those offered 
we have selected these as worthy a place in 
the Kellogg list. We hope that you will not 
fail to give them a trial if only twenty-five 
plants of each variety be the size of your order. 
Early Ozark is a cross of Excelsior and 
Aroma, and combines all of the excellencies 
of both of these old favorites, while it is re- 
ported to be earlier even than Excelsior itself. 
Added to earliness are great productiveness 
and strong shipping qualities, insuring uni- 
versal demand at once. Ozark is a powerful 
bisexual. 
Highland is an early variety, and for five 
years excelled in prolificness every variety 
tested by the Ohio Experiment Station and 
the number of varieties tested was 146 — cer- 
tainly a fine showing, and one which has been 
confirmed by the experiences of practical 
growers. It is a pistillate, and is said to 
possess all of the best qualities of Crescent, 
with the berries somewhat larger. 
Heritage is an early bisexual that won in- 
stant favor upon its origination, and is de- 
clared to possess every quality of flavor, size, 
color and shipping stamina that goes to make 
up the ideal strawberry. 
Fendall is another early bisexual with an 
unusually long fruiting season, which explains 
in part its unrivalled yield of 16,800 quarts 
to the acre. It is as beautiful and delicious 
as it is prolific. 
Buster suggests very appropriately the 
quality that is making this medium-to-late 
pistillate variety famous, for it is breaking 
many records, one of which concerns its won- 
derful frost-resisting powers; the other is its 
CULTIVATING THE PLANTS 
SPRAYING THE PLANTS 
MULCHING THE PLANTS 
