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GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co., Three Rivers. Mich. 
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BRANDYWINES MAKE A FINE SHOWING IN OKLAHOMA 
QUR customer, G. K. Bowman, of Stroud. Okla., sends us a beautiful post-card on which appears the photograph of two of 
the Brandy wines grown from Thoroughbred plants purchased from us in 1908. Each berry, he says, measured more than 
eight inches in circumference, and he had many that reached this size. He sold $70 worth from his little patch, and now intends 
to establish a ten-acre strawberry field. The photographer was careful to make the picture the actual size of the berries. 
wonderful yields of large 
fine fruit. 
Chesapeake is a notable 
addition to the list of late 
bisexuals, concerning which 
we have received letters 
from Eastern growers de- 
claring it to be the long- 
looked-f or late variety that 
has all of the virtues of the 
ideal strawberry. It is said 
to be a scion of Qandy, is 
quite as beautiful in form 
and larger in size than that 
famous old stand-by, and 
is a variety which all should 
give a thorough test this 
season. 
The Family Garden 
IN town or on the farm 
the family garden with- 
out strawberries is in- 
complete. We believe there 
is no other one thing grown 
in the home garden that 
may more easily be taken 
care of than a bed of straw- 
berry plants. The cost of 
the plants themselves is but 
a trifle. Three or four dol- 
lars invested in well-devel- 
oped plants will produce ail 
'T'HE lower figure shown herewith is a bloom 
of the male strawberry plant. Note the 
ball-like pendants: these are the anthers which 
contain the pollen with which the stigmas both 
of the male and female plants are fertilized. 
The upper figure is a bloom of the female, 
or pistillate plant. You will observe it has 
no anthers but only stigmas. Through these 
stigmas the pollen of the bisexual plant is 
conducted to the pistils and thus are both 
male and female plants perfectly fertilized. 
the berries of the very best 
quality that a large family 
of eight or ten could possi- 
bly use, and we are figur- 
ing that you will have 
strawberries every meal 
throughout the entire fruit- 
ing season, with plenty to 
can and jam and preserve 
to last you throughout the 
winter until strawberries 
ripen again. If you will 
follow the methods laid 
down in this book and give 
your strawberry plants the 
care they deserve, we be- 
lieve it would not be over- 
estimating it to say you 
would have enough berries 
to sell to more than pay for 
the cost of the plants, as 
well as for what little work 
you have expended upon 
them. When it comes to 
beauty there is nothing you 
can grow that will add 
more to the appearance of 
a home than a nicely kept 
bed of strawberry plants. 
Strawberries are the first 
fruit to ripen in the spring; 
just at a time when it re- 
quires a great deal of plan- 
ning for the housewife to 
