CENTER POINT, IOWA. 
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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 strawberry 
plants. Nothing will bring quicker and greater satisfaction to the planter, more keen 
delight to his children, or lessen the burden 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 cultivation, 
plant in rows three and one-half to four feet apart, and one to three feet in the row, but 
for hand culture, one to two feet will answer. 
Here is the plan we have found the most profitable and which always gives large, 
fine fruit. Set the plants as early in the 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 1 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 better satisfaction than 
can possibly be obtained with plants taken from an old fruiting bed. Such plants are 
not worth the digging. 
Spring Bearing Variety 
Senator Dunlap — Out of a long list of more 
than thirty spring bearing varieties 
which we used to catalog, we now retain 
but one, che Senator Dunlap: a product 
of the Mississippi Valley and especially 
adapted to it. Probably no other variety 
of fruit ever introduced here has given 
as universal satisfaction, as this one. 
Every claim made for it has been more 
than met. Some of its strong points are: 
1. — A clean, healthy and vigorous plant: 
capable of resisting intense cold and severe 
drought, and making an abundance of good 
and strong plants when almost every other 
variety fails. 
2. A long blooming season, with an 
abundance of pollen, making it one of the 
best self-fertilizers, and also the best f»r 
fertilizing pistillate varieties. 
3. A long fruiting season — coming in 
with the medium early and holding out 
when most others are gone — developing 
and ripening all its berries. 
4. Uniformly large, well shaped, dark 
bright red glossv berries with a very large, 
bright green calyx. Berries of the finest 
quality and flavor. 
o. A good keeper. Its long keeping 
qualities and attractive appearance make 
it more saleable than most others. 
6. A good canner, retaining its bright 
red color in the cans. 
We obtained our breeding stock direct 
from the introducer. Our plants are pure. 
and the best that can he produced. 25c 
per dozen: $1.00 per 100: $2.00 per 250: 
$3.50 per 500; $6.00 per 1000. 
Fall Bearing Variety 
AmerlcuB — For several years we have 
sought a variety to place beside the Sen- 
ator Dunlap and now one has appeared, 
vi«.. the Americus Fall Bearing straw- 
berry. This new fruit really belongs in 
a class by itself, it is so unlike the com- 
mon varieties. The Americus is the re- 
sult of one man's many years of cease- 
less effort to produce a successful fall 
bearing strawberry, and is a most re- 
markable variety and the best of all the 
fall bearing sorts. 
Plants set early in the spring will 
make a mat of new plants and all will 
produce a crop of fruit in the fall. It 
produces fruit continuously from May 
until November, and young plants be- 
gin bearing as soon as rooted, unless 
disbudded. The fruit is medium to large, 
blight light red, very solid, and has the 
splendid flavor of the native Wild 
Strawberry. The plants are very vigor- 
ous, deep rooted and healthy, and the 
blossoms strongly self fertilizing. Price, 
$1.50 per dozen; $7.50 per 100. 
