REID’S NURSERIES 
24 . . . SELECTED TREES, PLANTS, ETC. 
WM. BELT, 
With us this is a very large, high-colorecl berry, free from green tips and all other imperfections, producing 
a very heavy crop of the largest sized fruit, and possessing the unusual power of ripening all its berries, 
even untier unfavorable circumstances. We can recommend 
this to those growers whose market requires an extra-large 
berry. Prof. W. J. Green, of Ohio Experiment Station, de- 
scribes this as resembling the Marshall, which he considers to 
be a very nearly perfect berry, while much more productive. 
Mr. M. Crawford says : “ Wm. Belt fruited here in hills and 
matted rows, both i and 2-year-old plants. We have fruited 
it five or six years. It is the largest berry we have ever 
raised. The plant is very strong and hardy, and has a perfect 
blossom. It is a good bearer, and the fruit is of excellent 
quality and fine. Price, 25c. per doz., $1 per 100, $6 per 1,000. 
CLYDE. 
This new berry seems to be gaining great favor whereve 
known. It originated with Dr. J. Stayman several years ago. 
It is a seedling of Cyclone, and Cyclone is a cross between 
Crescent and Cumberland. The Clyde has Crescent blood in 
it and no doubt gets 
its immense pro- 
ductiveness from 
that variety. With 
us it is as large as 
the Bubach, nearly 
or quite a week 
earlier and very 
much firmer, It is 
a strong staminate, 
and therefore is 
suitable for pollen- 
izing medium and 
medium early pis- 
tillate varieties. 
The plant is very 
vigorous and healthy, there being no trace of disease 
about it that we have ever seen. The foliage is light 
green in color and somewhat resembles Haverland, 
but it is a more upright and sturdy grower. Season 
of ripening medium early. It is a dark scarlet in 
color, and very productive. Its strong plants, with 
an abundance of long roots, which penetrate the 
soil deeper than most varieties, enable it to with- 
stand drouth remarkably well. We consider it one 
of the best berries for general purposes now before 
the public. Having fruited it two years, we know 
whereof we speak. It is certainly a splendid berry, 
and no one will ever regret planting it. Our ac- 
companying illustration was made from a photo- 
graph and is considerably reduced in size. Price, 
25 cts. per doz., $1 per 100, $6 per 1,000. 
BISMARCK. 
A seedling of Bubach No. 5, pollenized by Van Deman. The plant resembles 
No. 5 in every way, only is more robust and stocky, with the same ironclad foliage. 
The berries are produced in abundance, outyielding No. 5. Shape obtuse conical, 
never cockscombed, and is the heaviest berry we have ever seea or grown. Color 
bright scarlet, no green tips; very firm, of good flavor; good shipper. Season' 
medium to very late; size larger than No. 5, excelling Mary, Timbrell, H. W. 
Beecher, Holland and Sharpless as grown here. Blossom perfect. In sending out 
the Bismarck, we guarantee it to uphold claims made for it above— to be the largest, 
most productive good-flavored market or home berry yet introduced. It will make 
scores of friends. It needs good, strong soil for best results in maturing its immense 
crop of luscious berries. Price, 35 cts. per doz., $1 per too, $7 per 1,000. 
ELEANOR. 
This is described by the introducer as fol- 
lows : “The largest and best very early 
Strawberry. For a long time fruit-growers ELEANOR, 
and amateurs alike have been looking for a 
Strawberry both large and very early, possessing all the necessary properties 
of vigor and productiveness of plant, and firmness, fine appearance and 
good quality of fruit. In Crystal City we have earliness, but its berries are 
insignificant ; in several other varieties large size, but they all ripen mid- 
season or late. The Eleanor is second to none in earliness, ripening with 
Crystal City and in advance of all others ; in size rivaling Sharpless, retain- 
ing its size well to the end of the season ; in productiveness surpassing 
famous Crescent; in firmness equal to Wilson ; color bright scarlet and has 
few equals in quality. Among other valuable properties of the Eleanor 
may be mentioned the following : Its uniform size, color and shape, 
never cockscombed, and coloring evenly all over, with no green tip, its 
strong staminate or perfect blossom and especial vigor, a field of it after 
picking season being as green as a field of clover, when all other varieties 
are sere and brown. 
“ This Strawberry is a chance seedling found in Atlantic county, New 
Jersey, and has been thoroughly tested in field culture on an extended 
scale for several years. It is by far the earliest large berry and the moat 
prolific early variety yet offered.” Price, 25 cts. per doz., 60 cts. per 100, 
$5 per 1,000. 
niSMARCK. 
