Suppose you and a neighbor order twenty best 
varieties each and put them under the modes of 
cultivation recommended in this book. You would 
find one or more sorts which did better than all 
the others and this would be the variety you should 
make your leader ; but when you came to compare 
notes with your neighbor you would not be likely 
to reach an agreement as to which were the best 
sorts. 
You need several varieties, not only for testing 
to determine the ones most profitable, but the 
tastes of your customers will vary fully as much as 
your plants. You must be prepared to hold their 
patronage by offering them just what they want 
throughout the season. 
In malting up this list of varieties, I have, through 
my extensive correspondence and published reports 
of government experiment stations, taken special 
pains to discard what are called local varieties or 
those which succeed only in a few localities and 
thus there are twenty-six varieties in last year's 
lists thrown out this year. Many of these dis- 
carded sorts were popular over wide areas, but we 
have better varieties to take their place. 
We have a large number of sorts now on trial and 
we shall breed them up, and if thev develop better 
qualities we will substitute them for some of the 
kinds we now offer and thus keep only the cream 
of all the leading varieties on our lists. 
It shall be my business to visit the great fruit 
centers during the coming summer and study these 
new varieties on other grounds and in different 
localities to learn their good qualities and defects 
and thus be able to prune off and add to our list 
only sorts of the greatest value and at the same 
time reduce the number as occasion requires. 
The varieties here offered have been widely tested 
and those introduced within the last few years 
have been carefully bred up and are the finest of 
their kind on the market. Never in my history of 
sixteen years of study in plant life have I had such 
perfect conditions in all particulars for plant breed- 
ing and testing varieties as at present. 
This farm was selected after a search of many 
weeks and then was practically made virgin soil by 
plowing under leguminous plants so the ground is 
now sufficiently soft and mellow to secure perfect 
root development, and rich in those minerals 
which encourage fruit bud formation. 
Our irrigating plant is equipped with a new engine 
and pump which will deliver fourteen hundred 
gallons of water every minute to any part of the 
farm, which enable? me to maintain the exact 
degree of moisture necessary to secure the most 
perfect results, and to send customers finer plants 
than can be found any where else in the world. 
A look at the prices will show you how, by the 
use of a very small amount of money, you can start 
a propagating bed this spring with these Pedigree 
Plants and propagate your own plants for setting a 
year hence ; or, if you wish to plant largely this 
spring, you can't afford to throw away your money 
and labor on mongrel plants. 
It will pay you big money to adopt the better 
methods ami enjoy the fame of being a leader on 
the market and secure a competence for your 
family and old age. 
I point out to you nothing more than I have 
accomplished, and whereas f have spent many 
years of hard work and large sums of money in 
experimenting with these- plants, you can. for a 
verv small sura, stock your ground with the same 
as I have used to produce these large crops. 
Send in your orders as early as possible so as to 
secure the varieties you desire as all orders will be 
filled in the rotation in which they are received 
and booked. Write me whenever my experience 
can serve you. 
The illustrations are photograph half tones made 
expressly for this book and serve to show the 
relative types and comparative sizes of the different 
varieties. The descriptions are as we find them in 
our field notes on our testing grounds. 
Bi-sexoal, (Bl 
or Male Flower 
Pistillate, IF I 
or Female Flower 
In selecting varieties arrange to have every 
third row of those marked " B " ( Bi-sexual ), and 
the other two marked "P" or pistillate which 
are designated for the same season, early, medium, 
or late. Those marked B may be set alone although 
I believe they fruit better if about six rows of 
different kinds are set alternately in the same field 
so as to cross fertilize. 
There is no strictly male flower. Such a variety 
would produce no fruit. The only reason we use 
the pistillates is they are much more productive 
and hardy. 
VARIETIES 
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER. 
See Price List on Page 29- 
Aroma. (B) Season very late. Size much 
above medium, bright red flesh to center and a 
good shipper. One of the very pest pollenizers for 
all very late sorts. It is a leader here and will be 
generally planted. It will not disapoint you. 
Bubach. (P) Season medium late. One of the 
large show berries of such excellent quality that it 
always captures the market. Berries bright crim- 
son, moderately firm but first class for near market,, 
succeeds best on rather heavy soil. 
Bederwood. (B) Very early and productive. 
On some soils its foliage sometimes rusts a little 
but it always brings its fruit through in fine .shape. 
It is recognized as a standard sort for fertilizing all 
extra early pistillate sorts. Berries above medium 
size and bright red color. 
Brandy wine. (B) Season medium to late. One 
of the grandest berries ever introduced. It is one 
of our favorites. If you do not have it by all means 
get it this season. It is one of the heaviest fruiters, 
a splendid shipper and a "catcher" on any market. 
Berries very large, deep red to center, of the type 
shown in the photograph. Stems short and stout 
and holds its great load of berries well up from the 
ground. One of the strongest pollenizers for pistil- 
lates of its season. 
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