Everbearing Strawberries 
BY 
FRANK E. BEATTY 
1AM GOING to give my own personal experience with the evcrboarers. 1 have been growing them 
for the past six years and every year niy confidence in these wonderful originations has increased until 
I have laecome thoroughly convinced that the true value of these varieties cannot be appreciated by 
anyone until they have either grown thera or seen them in fruit. 
Everbearing plants are even more hardy and vigorous than plants of any of the standard varieties. 
Their blossoms are not injured by frost, and they will stand more extreme weather conditions than any 
other plants I ever have grown. Everbearing plants set in the spring begin fruiting about three months 
aftc- they are set and continue to fruit heavily until freezing weather. The following season, these same 
plants will yield an exceedingly heavy crop in the early summer and another big crop in the fall. 
The everbearers are extremely productive. The berries are large and mo.st delicious, much sweeter 
and milder than the berries of most standard varieties. I have seen the everbearers fruiting in both high 
and low altitudes, and in all soils and climates, and in every case, the berries have been produced in mam- 
moth clusters, completely surrounding the plant. I cannot find words that will justly describe them. 
I have no desire whatever to overestimate the value of the everbearers. In fact, my position in the 
strawberry industry would not allow me to jeopardize my reputation as a strawberry expert by doing so. 
My own experience with these wonderful varieties justifies the endorsement I have given them here. 
I okserve all varieties very closely, study their habits and qualities, and am in an excellent position to judge 
each different kind. I want to say right here that it takes a remarkable variety to fulfill my ideals of a 
strawberry. During the fifteen years that I have managed the R. M. Kellogg Company, I have discarded 
a great many varieties simply because they did not come up to my ideals, but I have discarded only one 
of the everbearers — the Productive. This variety produced great quantities of berries but the berries 
were too small to suit me. I am perfectly willing to go on record as saying that the everbearers occupy 
a prominent place in the strawberry industry and that they are here to stay. When properly grown, the 
everbearers are sure to be big money-makers for the commercial grower and highly valuable for the home 
garden. 
I have given the everbearers a strong endorsement, but I wish to say that I have not expressed one 
half of their true value. Ypu will have to grow them yourself and see them bear big luscious berries from 
June to November each year to appreciate their real worth. 
PICKING KELLOGG'S EViiRBEARING STRAWBERRIES IN SEPTEMBER 
This photograph was taken ou Labor Day, September 3, 1917. The fully matured field of corn iu the background is proof 
that this photoKraph was taken in the fall, and the five crates of ripe strawberries should convince anyone beyond all doubt that 
KclloKg's Everbearers produce big crops of berries in the fall as well as in the spring. These everbearing plants were set in April, 
1917, and were loaded with big, re<I berries at the time this photograph was taken, and they cootinue^ \io fruit heavily until the 
extreme cold weather of November. 
Kellogg's Everbearers are big and quick money-makers in all soils and climates. 
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