GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers. Mich. 
Early Ozark, B. (Male) 
EXTRA EARLY. Bisexual. As its name indi- 
cates, it is one of the earliest varieties ever orig- 
inated, and it has the reputation of yielding the 
largest fruit of any of the extra-early varieties. 
In size it ranks with Klondike, Aroma and Can- 
dy, fifteen berries filling a quart rounding full. 
A cross between Excelsior and Aroma, this va- 
riety combines the excellent characteristics of 
each of these varieties, being larger and sweeter 
than the Excelsior as well as ripening somewhat 
earlier. A staminate variety, it is unusually 
strong in pollen, therefore excellent for mating 
purposes. It is of firm texture and is very pro- 
ductive, hence is popular with commercial grow- 
ers both as a yielder and shipper. We have not 
fruited this variety sufficiently long to recom- 
mend it for more than a trial, but it has such a 
high reputation among those who have grown it 
as to give it a place in the front rank of the 
extra-early varieties. Be sure and secure a suffi- 
cient number of plants of this variety to give it 
a thorough test this season. 
plants shipped. To the latter we wish to say 
that we will carry out their instructions as nearly 
as it is possible to do so, but our digging season 
comes in the early spring when weather condi- 
tions cannot be depended upon, and just at the 
time we begin filling the orders having a special 
date we may be detained by rain or some other 
conditions over which we have no control, thus 
causing delay in shipping these orders. Other 
patrons defer sending in their orders until they 
are ready to have the plants shipped, with a re- 
quest that the plants go forward upon receipt of 
their order, and then are annoyed because the 
plants do not reach them in a very few days. 
We certainly have no object in deferring ship- 
ments, and you may rest assured that we shall 
give your order just as prompt attention as pos- 
sible. If the shipping date is left to us, it is our 
aim to send the plants at the time we deem it 
best to set them in the particular locality to which 
the plants are going, and it is seldom we fail to 
get out an order on the date requested by the 
customer. With this word of explanation we are 
sure that no one will become impatient should 
Michel's Early, B. (Male) 
EXTRA EARLY. Bisexual. Michel's Early is 
one of the universal favorites, and during the 
nineteen years it has been in our breeding beds 
has won steadily increasing popularity. The 
berry is a rich crimson in color, medium in size, 
the color extending almost evenly over the en- 
tire surface of the berry. The form is varied, 
some of the berries being nearly top-shaped, 
while others are round, and few varieties look 
more handsome than does Michel's Early when 
neatly packed in boxes. Seeds are of light brown, 
with the exception of those on the tip end of the 
berry, which are a bright yellow. The flavor of 
this variety is rich but mild; the meat is deep 
pink throughout, and it has the very great ad- 
vantage of being a fine shipper. The calyx is of 
rnedium size, standing up straight; foliage is 
light-green and tall, and the leaves are rather 
long. Michel's Early makes a great number of 
runners, but where runners are kept down close- 
ly a powerful crown is developed and large yields 
of delicious fruit invariably result. Michel's 
Early is a strong pollenizer. 
weather conditions compel us to delay shipping 
plants for a day or so. 
A LL large orders for plants should be shipped 
by express, whether the distance be short or 
long, as it is the least expensive and most certain 
method. Freight is too precarious. 
How to Ship as it sometimes happens that ship- 
Plants ments made in that way are held up 
for many days— something to which 
perishable goods never should be subjected. 
When less than two hundred plants are ordered 
to be shipped to any part of the United States 
east of the Rocky Mountains, it will be cheaper 
to have them go by mail than by express, and 
where plants are to go west of the Rocky Moun- 
tains to the Pacific Coast States, it will be cheap- 
er by mail for as many as three hundred plants; 
and, no matter where the plants are to be snipped, 
when one hundred or fewer plants are ordered it 
always is less expensive to have them go by mail. 
OUR mail-order packages receive great care. 
They are first wrapped in the best grade of 
wax paper, and then are done up securely in 
