QUART B \SKBT OF TIMBKELL, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM NATURE. 
GOOD WORDS FOR TIMBRELL. 
SEE WHAT EXPERTS SAY. 
Emmittsburo, Md., September 3, 1894. 
Mr. E. W. Reid, Bridgeport, Ohio: Dear Sir — 
T IMBRELL with me bore immensely and matured 
every berry, although some had a little patchy appear- 
ance before fully ripe, but I picked quarts as nice col- 
ored as I wish to see. I say quarts, and from only 20 
feet of row. Yours, etc. , 
S. GAMBLE. 
Samuel Miller, Blufftoti, Mo., in his Strawberry 
report for 1894, says : “In Timbrell we have a berry 
that we have long looked for. For size, beauty, pro- 
ductiveness, firmness and nice picking, nothing I ever 
saw excelled this variety. The quality is first rate. I 
consider Timbrell and Parker Earle, like King 
David’s head general, Saul, head and shoulders above 
their fellows." 
W. F. Allen, Jr., in Strawberry Culturist, July, 
1894, says: Timbrell, strong healthy grower, large 
size, very productive and very late. I do not hesitate to 
say this is the best very late berry yet introduced, all 
things considered. 
American Agriculturist, July, 1894: But few newly 
introduced fruits have received so favorable enco- 
mium from expert judges and professional fruit-growers 
as have been showered upon the Timbrell Strawberry, 
the original stock of which is owned by E. W. Reid, 
Bridgeport, Ohio. All those who have seen and tried 
it pronounce it a variety of exceptional merit. The 
flowers are pistillate, berries very large, uniformly con- 
ical, of a beautiful crimson color, of excellent quality ; 
season very late. 
M. Crawford, in American Gardening: Tim- 
brell is a healthy, luxuriant grower, and one of the 
most productive. Blossom pistillate. The fruit is 
very large, nearly always of regular conical form, 
crimson color, firtq and of excellent quality. From 
what I have seen and heard, I believe' it to be the very 
best variety, all things considered, that has ever been 
introduced. It is much the best late berry, and will 
surely supersede those we now depend upon as late. 
E. G. Fowler, in an extract read before the Farm- 
ers’ Club of New York, says : The Timbrell, a new 
varietv, comes nearer to the ideal standard than any 
other I have seen in the direction of quality. 
E. S. Carman, editor of The Rural New-Yorker, 
who is one of the best judges of new fruits, and who 
has had more experience than any other man in the 
country, says : "Timbrell is the best Strawberry 
in existence." Again hesays: "Were I confined 
to one berry, it would be Timbrell.” Again, under 
date of November 7, 1893, hesays: "I have lost no 
faith in Timbrel! ; it is all ever claimed.” 
E. S. Carman, editor of The Rural New-Yorker . 
answers G. A. I’., of Pennsylvania, as follows: "1. Is 
Timbrell as valuable as Brandywine Strawberry? 
2. How will the two sorts compare with Parker Earle 
in yield? The latter yielded me at the rate of over 300 
bushels tier acre." Answer. — “1. Timbrell is better 
in quality than Brandywine, though Brandywine is 
very good— superior, indeed, but it is not best ; this 
can be truly said only of Timbrell. 2. Either 
will compare in yield with Parker Earle." 
Price, $1 per doz., £3 per 100, $20 per 1,000. 
