TIMBRELL.—P.— Reid’s Greatest Success. 
This gem of Strawberries still holds the lead of all the new varieties introduced for many years. It has 
fully realized all the merits claimed for it, and no one who wishes to be to the fore can omit planting the best of 
fruits. The past extremely dry season tested the merits of many new varieties. Many failed to come up near to 
the claims made for them, and none did so well as this incomparable berry. It still keeps in front of all its com- 
petitors, as being the most productive, hardy, and for vigor of plant has no equal. In size, quality and firmness 
it has not been surpassed by any berry yet introduced. This alone should commend it to all fruit-growers. 
For the enormous size of berries which can be grown from this variety we append herewith names and 
address of the winners of the first two prizes offered by us in the spring of 1893, for the ten largest berries, show- 
ing that this is a 
WORLD BEATER. 
Berries weighed i pound 9 oz. 
winning the first prize, $100. 
10 Berries weighed 1 pound 
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This makes about eight berries to the quart. Twenty ounces are considered a quart of berries; here we have 
five ounces more than a quart for only ten berries. This rivals the celebrated European varieties. 
Northampton, Mass., June 12 , 1894. 
This is to certify that in the spring and early summer of 1893 I purchased of Mr. E. W. Reid, Nurseryman, 
of Bridgeport, Ohio, Strawberry plants of the Timbrell variety ; that I have raised from said plants the ten 
Strawberries which have this day been weighed by a competent clerk in the employ of C. B. Kingsley, druggist, 
of this city, before Wm. M. Cochran, Justice of the Peace, and that the net weight of said Strawberries was one 
pound and nine ounces (1 lb. 902.). E. C. DAVIS. 
Sworn to before Wm. M. Cochran, Justice of the Peace. 
Antlers, Col., July 9, 1894. 
E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio : Dear Sir— You certainly have the best late berry that has ever been intro- 
duced. We have at this writing berries as large as pigeon eggs and as solid as a hard-boiled egg. We wish 
you could have seen the ten largest berries. They filled a quart box heaping full. Some of them measured 
over two inches across, and were as large as hen’s eggs. The largest berry weighed 7% ounces, and the ten 21 
ounces. Very truly, HOOVER & MOORE. 
Sworn to before J. L. Hays, Justice of the Peace. 
