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LINN COUNTY NURSERY 
and cover with three inches of forest leaves or by throwing a light furrow upon 
them. Uncover in spring when all danger of freezing is past, and tie to a wire 
trellis. 
Lucretia— Claimed to be the best of the blackberry family, and as productive 
as any. The berries are far larger and incomparably better than any blackberry, 
and of unequalled excellence; soft, sweet and luscious throughout; of brightest,, 
glossy black color. The Lucretia dewberry has received the indorsement and praise 
from the best horticulturists in the country. Its eminent success in all soils, 
from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Florida, is something phenomenal 
in small fruit culture, ioc each; 75c per dozen; $3.00 per 100; $20.00 per 1,000. 
Senator Dunlap 
Strawberries 
No one owning a home, or for that matter, one who is renting for a term 
of years can put a little money to a better use than to buy three or four hundred 
plants of the standard variety of strawberries. If given the proper care, a good 
sized family can hardly use all the fruit they will produce the next season after 
planting. Nothing will bring quicker and greater satisfaction to the planter, more 
keen delight to his children, or lessen the burdens of his good wife in providing 
for the table than a well kept strawberry bed. 
The best time to plant strawberries is in early spring and on fertile new soil, or 
old land brought to a high state of cultivation. If horses are to be used in culti- 
vation, plant in rows 3 1-2 to 4 feet apart, and 1 to 3 feet in the row, but for hand 
culture, 1 to 2 feet will answer. 
Here is the plan we have found the most profitable and which always gives 
large, fine fruit. Set plants as early in spring as the season will permit, and pinch 
off all the blossom stalks which appear the first season; this throws all the strength 
into a good stand of new plants for the next year. About November 1st cover 
with rye or wheat straw just deep enough so they can come up through it; if too 
much is on, remove a part of it when spring comes and leave the rest of it to keep 
the berries off the soil. Now dig enough of these new plants to start a new bed, 
which treat as before, and as soon as the crop is off, plow the old bed under. Keep 
this up year after year and you will have the finest fruit that can be produced. 
Our plants are strictly nursery grown and will give far greater satisfaction than 
can possibly be obtained with plants taken from an old fruiting bed. Such plan's 
are not worth the digging. Out of a long list of more than thirty varieties which 
