SMALL FRUITS AND HOW HE GROWS THEM 
Staples. (B) Season early, a seedling of War- 
field and so closely resembles it that it can be 
used as a fertilizer with that variety and they can 
be picked together in the same crates. It is med- 
ium but very even in size, and deep blood red to 
center, and like Warfield, one of the best for can- 
ning or shipping. 
Sample. (P) Season the very latest. It was 
introduced last year at fs.oo per dozen. It is real- 
ly a "sweepstake" and plants will be in very large 
demand for several years. In Massachusetts exhi- 
bitions it was given first honors and all who have 
grown it are loud in its praise. Its berries are 
larger than any other extreme late sort. They 
are very regular in shape, bright red and beauti- 
ful. Fertilize with Michigan. Order a few of 
these and make them your late leader. 
Sunnyside. (P) Season very late. The most 
productive late berry yet introduced. Here it is 
very productive and should be included in every 
order as an extra late berry. Use Gandy or Aroma 
for a pollenizer. A good firm shipper and will 
therefore be valuable where growers ship south. 
Berries large, bright red and attractive. 
Seaford. (P) Season quite late. One of the 
very best berries of recent introduction. In foliage 
it is simply immense. The berries are very large 
and deep red to center and is without doubt one of 
the most productive sorts introduced for years. 
Yrtu will make no mistake in planting this very 
largely. It is so vigorous it will succeed on all 
soils. 
Star. (B) Season medium early. It is of recent 
introduction but is one of the bright stars of the 
strawberry firmament. The berries are large and 
true as a top; bright red and of excellent quality, 
and one of the most desirable of the new varieties. 
Splendid. (B) Medium late. Above medium in 
size, dark crimson, regular shape and firm, and a 
good all around berry. Good shipper. 
Tennessee Prolific. (B) A very early large beau- 
tiful productive berry. I am sorry the letter "T" in 
the alphabet brings this berry so far down in the list 
for it has made such a grand showing every year 
that it should be at the head of the list for early 
berries. It is planted largely in the south for 
shipping north and succeeds here equally well. Its 
foliage is vigorous, it roots deep and stands the 
drouth well. It makes runners freely but when 
grown in hedge row stools up in fine shape and 
should be classed as "enormously productive." 
Tennyson. (B) Season early. Another ever- 
bearing sort. Produces many berries in Septem- 
ber and October. In a wet season the crop is quite 
heavy, berries medium size, bright crimson and 
good. 
Tubbs. (B) Season medium early to late. Now 
generally tested and found valuable. It is of the 
Crescent type, a free grower and very productive 
and continues through a long season, the berries 
holding up to good size until the close of the sea- 
son. Berries bright crimson to center and very 
beautiful 
Wolverton. ( B ) Season medium, berries of the 
highest quality, large, bright red to center. The 
foliae;e is vigorous and not fastidious about the 
kind of soil. A fine berry for the market or family. 
Warfield. (P) Season early. This is now rec- 
ognized as the leading early market berry and 
when properly grown is the most productive berry 
of its season. It is so vigorous in foliage that if 
left to itself it mats so thickly that its fruitfulness 
is destroyed. When grown in hedge row it stools 
up to an immense size and over three hundred 
good large berries have been picked from a single 
A Residence Street of Three Rivers 
plant. Its deep color makes it fine for canning 
and is also an excellent table berry. 
If your Warfields have become unproductive by 
all means renew them from this Pedigree stock. 
Wilson Albany. (B) Season early. The oldest 
berry now in general cultivation and has done more 
to popularize strawberry growing than any other 
sort. By careless propagation it has lost its vigor 
and been discarded in many localities. While the 
berries are of only medium size yet people like it 
and it finds a ready sale. A grand shipping and 
canning berry. 
RASPBERRIES. 
The raspberry fields of the country are gener- 
ally in a deplorable condition. Not one grower in 
in a hundred is harvesting one half the berries he 
should and what he gets are very small and with- 
out flavor. 
It has been the universal practice for growers to 
fruit plantations until run out and then propagate 
from them to start a "new" bed which was again 
fruited four or five years when it did not pay for 
labor and then renewed again in the same way. 
Nurserymen have contributed to this disaster by 
contracting with these parties for plants to fill 
their orders and thus their exhausted stock has 
been sent broadcast over the country. 
Pruning has often been neglected and these plan- 
tations soon become pollen exhausted and while 
the canes are large they produce very little fine 
fruit. The weakened canes easily succumb to 
fungi and other diseases and after four or five 
crops are run out instead of fruiting heavily eight 
to ten years as they should do. 
The true way is to breed up by propagating 
from ideal canes carefully selected and pruned. 
This is done with us every year so that this rapid 
selection weeds out all weak canes and leaves only 
those which are perfect and in full vigor. 
The photograph shows one of our fields the second 
year after planting. The camera was placed too 
low to show the rows on right or left which are 
set seven feet apart, but exhibits the wonderful 
vigor of plants propagated under our system. This 
is the field which will produce the plants for this 
year's sales. 
All plants sold will be from pedigree two year 
old stuck and are the largest and finest roots ever 
furnished by any nurseryman and under good care 
will produce enormous crops for many years. 
It is the big crop every year that pays and to 
get this you must have vigorous plants. 
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