SEEDS, FRVIT AMD VIMES. 
JHE S TRAWBE RRY. 
How We Plant and Prepare Ground for the Strawberry, 
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CUT PRICES... 
on Large Orders. 
As a rule, in the fall we usually plow our ground for spring planting, 
if all is favorable, by so doing you rid your plot intended for strawberries 
of numerous insects, and by so doing your ground is in just the right shape. 
We use a spring tooth harrow and field roller and work our soil just to 
whatever stage we want it, and last time use spike tooth harrow for level- 
ing up. For marks we use a sled but when rows are not too long we use a 
line. We usually mark our ground in rows four feet apart and plant our 
sets according to how numerous a plant maker it is. Any variety that is 
medium runner maker should be about 15 inches apart. By planting 4 feet 
between rows you can use our harrow,, the be&t tool we ever used; it does not 
tear the runners. Always remember every third row should be fertilized 
row. We have learned many lessons in the last twelve years and have had 
many varieties to study. We might go on and state how we failed and how 
we succeeded but you all understand it to a certain extent. 
Bear in Mind if you want the handiest tool you ever used to plant the 
strawberry with, or for vegetable plants you should have one or more of our 
garden trowels as shown in cut where plows are. You can not afford to be 
without it. Remember our Strawberry plants this season are fine rooted 
plants. 
The ^^Cobden Queen/' 
OFFERED FOR TFtE FIRST TIME. 
T his grand new strawberry comes to us 
from an experienced grower of the straw- 
berry, The Cobden yueen is a seedling 
of the famous old Wilson, and you all know 
what it was. It is a first-rate variety; the 
plant is a vigorous grower, and an abundant 
bearer of large size fruit of a beautiful color. 
It is about three days earlier than the Cres- 
cent, and the last pickings are as large as the 
first. This is the third season I have shipped 
to Chicago, and its carrying qualities have proven to be the equal of any 
strawberry now before the public, not excepting the Gaudy or Huffman. It 
is superior to any other strawberry of recent introduction in the following 
points: Earliness, size, carrying qualities, beauty of berry, vigor of plant, 
quantity of berry to the acre. John McCaffery, 
Originator; Illinois. 
T^STITUVON mus. 
M. A. Thavpr, Spnrln, Wi"» — For vigor ami 
f rowtli of plaiil.the Oobclen Qm'i'n can not bo 
ottered. The foliage Is nlsocM-clIent. 
V. J). Webb, Ky. — From my short acquaint- 
ance with the Cobden Queen Strawlwrry, I must 
sav I regard It a very promising new variety. 
For heallh ami vigor of growth It Is all that 
could be desired. Ills as near droulh proof as 
any on my place, where I have thirty varieties 
growing. 
It. M. Kellogg, Mieb,— I say the Cobden Queen 
is making a very line growth In my trial gnmmis. 
There are ninety varieties, side by side, and It 
stands well up, showing no rust and forming 
large crowns. 
H. T. Kastman, Ills.— I have been growing 
strawberries more or less since 18(14. and will not 
hesitate to say that the Cobden Queen is the 
lluest strawberry 1 have ever seen. 
