E. W. REID’S NURSERIES, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO 
SOME PROFITABLE NEW STRAWBERRIES 
WM. BELT. 
ELEANOR. 
With us this is a very large, high-colored 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 
under unfavorable circumstances. We can recommend this to 
those growers whose market requires an extra-large berry. 
.Prof. W. J. Green, of Ohio Experiment Station, describes 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 1 and 2-year-old plants. We have fruited it live 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, 25 cts, per doz., 75 cts. per 100, $1 per 1,000. 
* CLYDE. 
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 seen 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, 25 cts. per 
doz., 75 cts. per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
Bismarck. 
This is described by the introducer 
as follows: “The largest and best 
very early Strawberry. For a long ' 
time fruit-growers and amateurs alike 
have been looking for a Strawberry 
both large and very early, possessing Eleanor, 
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 otner varieties large size, but they all ripen midseason or late. 
The Eleanor is second to none in earliness, ripening with Crystal City 
and in advance of all others; In size rivaling Sharpless, retaining 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 bo mentioned the following: Uniform size, color and shape, never cocks- 
combed, coloring evenly all over, no green tip, 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 
Jerse 5 r , 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 most pro- 
lific early variety yet offered. M Price, 25c. per doz., 50c. per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
grower. Season of ripening medium early. 
It is a dark scarlet in color, and very pro- 
ductive. Its strong plants, with an abun- 
dance of long roots, which penetrate the soil 
deeper than most varieties, enable it to with- 
stand drought remarkably well. Wo 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 cer- 
tainly a splendid berry, and no one will ever 
regret planting it. Our accompanying illus- 
tration was made from a photograph, and is 
considerably reduced in size. Price, 25 cts 
per doz., 75 cts, per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
This new berry seems to be gaining great favor wherever 
known. It originated with Dr. J. Stayraan 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 productiveness from that 
variety. With us it is as large as Bubach, nearly or quite 
a week earlier and very 
much firmer. It is a 
strong staminate, and 
therefore is suitable for 
pollenizing medium aud 
medium early pistillate 
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 
some w hat resembles 
Haverland, but it is a 
more upright aud sturdy 
Wm. Belt. 
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