KELLOGG'S 
THOROUGHBRED, PEDIGREE i 
STRAWBERRY 
PLANTS 
The Result of 40 Years of Strawberry Experience 
AN IDEA, years of patient effort, then Kellogg Pedigree Plants. 
Unfortunately, it is difficult for those who never have grown Kellogg 
Pedigree Plants or seen them fruiting, to appreciate their high 
standard, and to these, our most conservative claims, as well as the most 
conservative claims of our customers, may seem impossible or exaggerated. 
It is difficult for them to appreciate the difference in quality between 
Kellogg Pedigree Plants and "common" strawberry plants, and for this 
reason, we say, "Ask any Kellogg customer." Here's a letter from one 
doubter who was changed to a believer: 
Gentlemen: — I have read statements in your catalog which snenied rather 
strong and exaggerated to me before growing Kollogg Pedigree Plants myself, 
but my experience with the 500 Kellogg everbearing plants which I bought from 
you a year ago, has completely removed all doubt. I set these plants April 10th, 
and commenced to market berries August 1st, and by October 1st, had sold 
$51.75 worth of berries. In addition to this, we had all the berries we could 
use from August 1st to November 1st, in spite of some hard freezes. We had 
berries that w(!ighed two ounces each or only eight berries to the pound, and 
many quart boxes were well filled with eighteen berries each. I received $4.00 
per crate for the entire crop. My yield was at the rate of $1,449.00 per acre 
for only two months' picking the same season the plants were set. I counted as 
many as thirteen fruiting stalks on a single plant, each stem having more than 
twenty berries. 
L. G. Clapp, Washington. 
We would not be contented to grow just "strawberry plants." Our 
aim, as strawberry plant breeders, is to produce a strain of plants which 
is superior to all others, both in vigor of plants and the quality and 
quantity of berries produced. For this reason it is to your interest as a 
strawberry grower, to set the Kellogg Pedigree Plants because Kellogg 
plants produce more berries and berries of higher quality than any other 
strawberry plants, making it to the interest of the public to buy your 
berries in preference to those produced by common strawberry plants. 
A common strawberry plant grown the ordinary way will produce straw- 
berries, but the berries will not compare, either in size, quahty or quantity, 
with berries j)roduced by a strain of plants developed by scientific plant 
selection and restriction. The methods which we employ in selecting our 
breeding stock prevent deterioration, weakness in plants, and drones, and 
increases their vitality and strengthens their productive powers. Our 
methods also insure pure-bred, true-to-name, plants. 
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