THE rObUOWIlNG LBTTBRS 
Arc but Samples of Many Hundreds Received from Correspondents. 
Dr. JR. C. Kedsie, Agriaiitural Cnllege Mich. .—I have 
read with interest your article in Michigan Fruit Grow- 
er on Plant Breeding and quote a significant sentence: 
"The growth of fruit then depends on the vigor and 
potency of the pollen." To my mind there is a world of 
meaning in that phrase and I think fruit growers have 
overlooked the quality of the pollen as a controlling in- 
fluence in fruit growing. 
P. R. Baile;/, O'Brien Co., lovia : — My plants made a 
splendid growth and I have the finest plants in North 
West Iowa. My berries were the wonder of the country 
and people came for miles to see and buy them. I had 
a ready sale at my own door at 12* cents per quart. I 
grew them in hills, many berries measured over six 
inches in circumference. The man who follows your 
advice is bound to succeed. The gooseberries I got of 
you are simply immense. I turn away traveling tree 
agents every day who are gulling the people by selling 
them worthless plants. The ones who get bit by them 
wonder how I grow such fruit. 
A. D. Alk-ire, Manard Co., III. : — I ordered a lot of 
strawberry, raspberry and blackberry plants of you in 
the spring of 1896. They made a most vigorous growth 
and the berries were the finest that have ever been 
grown in this county. Several of my neighbors who 
saw them will order of you this spring. 
Theo. Bender, Bui/Jhld coiiiili/, Il'/.f. : — The best tool 
that I have and prize the most is the Perfection Plant 
Setter that I bought of you last year. The plants that I 
took out of my field and set with it never stopped grow- 
ing but grew as if they had not been transplanted. 
Geo. HtiUiniixlieml. Ottawa Co., Ohio: — I have received 
from two to three cents per quart more from my 
strawberries this season than any other grower in this 
locality, and have not been able to fill the demand. The 
raspberries I got of you bore an enormous crop. The 
Columbian is the greatest grower I ever saw. 
W. F. Brotim, Boone Co., [own: — The strawberries 
you sent me were the best I ever saw and in bearing 
surpassed mv expectation. I was able last season to 
hold the market for strawberries, receiving ten cents 
per quart while other home grown berries sold for much 
lessaud shipped berries sold for half that amount. Oue- 
eigbtb acre yielded Two Hundred and Three Dollars. 
A. C. Lee. I'an Biiren. Co., Town:— I am taking the 
cake in our plaoe for berries. While other berries are 
selling four orfi'-'e boxes for twenty-tlve .'cnts my War- 
fields^ Hav.. lauds and Oreenvilles are selling at three 
boxes for 2o cents and go at sight. 
C. r. ThirloMjh, Fiilinn Co., TIL: — My berries are 
.just simply immeuse. All that see them say they are 
the largest beriies the.y ever saw. They are all enga.ged 
and more if [ had them at ten cpnts percjuart. I find 
it as you say — I don't have to drum up trade. They 
come and lake all I have from the wagon and engage 
the next picking. 
Gen. Melzfier, Jr., Cameron Co.. Penn.: — We will have 
goodTwri Hundred bushels for our first pii'kiug from the 
Seven Thousand plants bought of you (about an acre) 
and we h;ive coiitiacted the entire cropatS cents a quart 
delivered in the town here. 
A. -J. Smith, llnnrork Co., Ohio: — The plants came 
quinkl.v and in first-class shape. I was much pleased 
with then] and the careful manner in whii'h they were 
packed. Tlicy had fine roots and all grew and pro- 
duced a great i rop of the finest berries I ever saw. f^ime, 
were as large !,s ben's eggs. My neighbors said they 
never saw such berries. 
P. C. Dari/i, Fall River Co., S. /)..— Mr. Billipps of 
this place says your strawberry plan fs are the finest lie 
ever saw and he has orderrd several thousand of you, 
but last spring he ordered some cheaper one« and hiis 
been black ai.d blue all sumnii r where he has kii ked 
himself. 
A. L. Jordnn, Fiilasli Co., The blackberries 
and raspberries I purchased of you last sea.»on made a 
fine growth and I received a lot of i hoicf fruit from 
them this year. The asparagus did splendid. lam 
greatly (pleased with all the fruit I ever bought of you. 
Peter Flory, Medina Co., Ohio: — My six plants or 
Columbian raspberries received of you have canes an 
inch in diameter. We picked a bushel of berries from 
those six plants, The other plants did equally well. 
//. //. Connetl, Poweshiek Co., Towa:— The Three Hun- 
dred plants I received from you iu 1896 I set on twelve 
square rods of land. Last spring we gathered Three 
Hundred and fifty quarts from the patch and they were 
the finest berries ever put on our market. 
T. C. f^hawrer, Clinton Co., Iowa: — Three years ago 
I planted out a plat of strawberries and grew them in 
hedge row. The berries were the finest in the county 
and sold readily at from twelve to fifteen cents per 
quart aud will bear another immense crop. 
.lames I. E.isick, Chester eomity, Penn. : — Fruit grown 
from your stock was the finest which went into this 
market but I did not have near enough to supjily the 
demand. Some customers would not wait until I came 
for fear they would be left, but drove over here so as to 
be sure of getting them. Nothing but R. M. Kellogg's 
plants will do for me. My neighbors buy of other parties 
because they get them a little cheaper. I saw one man 
setting plants last spring you could not hire me to set. 
A. Harris, Greene county. Mo.: — In justice to you 
I can say I never saw finer plants or in better condi- 
tion than those received last spring. I did not lose one 
plant out of the lot. I shall have a great crop of 
fruit. 
Valentine Porter, Pnlaski eonnty. Mo.: — I have had 
your plants at different times and they were first- 
class iu every respect. I can recommend then> first, 
last and all the time. You have done more for berry 
culture than any ten men in the country, 
Alrin Barton, Belmont eonnti/, Ohio: — The plants re- 
ceived from you last spring made the best growth of any 
in the township. Dry weather set in in ,Iuly. We had 
no rain until in October but my plants were so vigorous 
they never stopped growiug. 
./. F. Pelrie, .Tefferaon county. A', I'..— The black- 
berrifs I bought of you last spring nnide three times the 
growth of those ordered from a New York firm. 
Geo. C. Poqers, Ilillshoro county. lY. If.: — I received 
one of .your books but cannot class it with common 
fruit catalogues for it is uncommon and if I could have 
had my choice of the book or a five dollar note, I would 
rather have your "Big little book." 
./. B. Tomisend, f^cott county, Ionm:—\ gave Mr. Chas. 
Law ymir addres.s and told him of my remarkable suc- 
cess with plants received from you last year. Notwith- 
standing the terrible dry scusou I lost not a single plant. 
My berries were simply inum iihe. 
G. M. Watson, Kno.r county, /II.:— The patch fruiting 
from plants shipped by you in .\pril 18(17, gave the best 
bcriies in this locality, so that I easil.y wholesaled all at 
reeular retail rates, gettingcash and not being able to 
supply nearly all the demand. 
M. F. Fassetl, Wyoming} coiinty, Penn. : — I have learn- 
ed more common sense from your book than all the rest 
I ever read put together. 
ir. ir. .lohnston. M. T>.. Cass county, Mo.:—l think 
you will have a large trade in this vicinity as I have 
demonstrated the value of your s.vstem of propagation 
in growing llj bushels of the finest berries on a plat 
tweniy-thn e by scveiit.y fi et. I have started (be ball 
rolling. Find two orders enclosed. 
(/. TC. Mcliallip. Ilrown co'nily, Kas. : — From two 
hundred plants bonglit id yini in the spring of 1896 L 
picked last sc'.isnn between niiu' and ten bushels of ber- 
ries. ( .V early a quart aud a half to a plant.) 
Geo. I,, Farinash. Marion county. Inil.: — You have revol- 
utionized small fruit srowing. My immense crop of the 
liigtrest berries ever .seen t)n the market proves the as- 
seriion. In the future I shall never set a plantwithout 
knowing its peiligree, 
F. T. Prindle <t- Son. Herkimer comity, JVew York: — I 
have not had time before to write you that your plant 
setter is a perfect tool. There is no wa.v that you can 
.set plants so fast and do it as well; at least we found 
it so after testing it thoroughly. 
