54 GREAT CROPS OF STRAWBERRIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM 
R. M. Kellogg Co.. Three Rivers, Mich. 
Challenge, B. (Male) 
MEDIUM. Bisexual. Among growers who pro- 
duce strawberries especially for the family trade 
Challenge is very popular. The berry grows 
extra large but is not so uniform in shape and as 
smooth as are many of our varieties. Its de- 
licious flavor, its fine color and large size, how- 
ever, have made it universally popular wherever 
it has been grown and sold. In form the Chal- 
lenge is round and corrugated; rich dark red in 
color, the brown seeds in its sides look as if they 
had been polished. There is no more tempting 
strawberry shown in the market than the Chal- 
lenge when it is propely packed in the box. 
The flesh is an especially deep crimson and is 
very rich and solid, that rare quality making it 
valuable as a shipper. Challenge is a variety 
that is universally successful, thriving under all 
conditions of climate and soils. As a yielder of 
great crops few varieties excel it. This is the 
eighth year of selection and restriction in our 
breeding beds. 
hundred of the berry plants and yesterday picked 
seven gallons of the fruit.' " 
Edward V. Muller. 
New Hampshire 
Canaan Center, April 4, 1909. "Plants arrived 
all right and in first-class condition. Am well 
pleased." C. W. Neily. 
Belmont, July 5, 1909. "I have bought plants 
from other growers to test besides yours, and 
I want my foundation plants to come from you. 
I expect to send to you next spring for plants 
for my propagating bed, as your plants are the 
best fruiters I have found, although other plants 
looked better in many cases up to fruiting time, 
and I would be well satisfied with them if I had 
not had yours to compare them with. " 
Francis A. Badger. 
New Jersey 
West Collingswood, April 27, 1909. "Plants 
received today in splendid shape. '•' 
Richard N. Groves. 
Camden, April 22, 1909. "Your shipment of 
Bubach, P. (Female) 
LATE. Pistillate. Noted for its immense yields 
of fruit of great size and beautiful in color, Bu- 
bach has won a reputation as a money maker en- 
joyed by few varieties. It is the universally fav- 
orite pistillate and is one of the varities we have 
found it difficult in the past to supply in sufficient 
number to satisfy the increasing demand. We 
are producing a million or more of them this year 
so that all our patrons may be supplied with as 
many of them as they call for. The berries are 
big, meaty fellows with a bright-red, waxy sur- 
face. Some are conical in shape and others are 
wedge-shaped. The bright red color extends 
through the fruit, which is fine grained. It has 
a large calyx with medium-sized stems. The 
foliage is dark green and of spreading habit, 
with short fruit and leaf stems. It succeeds in 
all kinds of soil and in every climate. This is the 
twenty-third year we have propagated this pop- 
ular pistillate variety. 
strawberry plants reached me in due time— April 
16th— all in good condition." A. B. Ayres. 
Trenton, April 19, 1909. "I received your plants 
Friday. They were all in fine condition." 
Geo. Getz. 
New York 
Constantia, Feb. 16, 1909. "Kellogg Pedigree 
plants are the best to get. I know, because I 
have tested them by setting six rows of plants 
that were not pedigree, although they were nice 
large-rooted plants. I gave them just as good 
care and cultivated them as I did the Kellogg 
pedigree plants, but they did not have the power 
to stand the long dry weather like the pedigree 
plants, I have quit trying to raise strawberries 
any other way than the Kellogg way." 
Alvin Freday. 
Keesville in the Adirondacks, May 15, 1909. 
"Plants received in fine condition. It is a pleas- 
ure to deal with people who know how to pack 
plants, and without any exception the plants re- 
