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QTtAHAWS SMALL FRUIT CATALOGUE. 
STRAWBERRIES. 
Fertilize the ground as for a good field crop — Commercial fertilizers pro- 
duce the least weeds. For field culture plant in rows to four feet apart and 
the plants from 18 to 20 inches in the rows. Select ground that had hoed corn 
on last year. The best land is one that has had heavy clover plowed under 
and then one hoed crop. Keep your ground thoroughly cultivated, don’t allow 
the weeds to get a start. If plants are sent by mail, add 25 cents per 100 for 
postage; at dozen rates, post free; at thousand rates, by e-icpress or freight. 
Care of Plants. Unpack plants as soon as possible after receiving 
them. Place roots only in water and lay them loosely in a cool, light place 
until ready to set them. If roots are wet the sun will not hurt them. If nec- 
essary to keep them several days, heel them in, spreading each bunch to occu- 
py about two feet of drill, and pour water along the roots once or twice a day. 
New rootlets will start and the plants will get in botte^r condition for setting 
than when first received. Murate of potash, ground bone and nitrate of soda 
applied to the soil and thoroughly worked in before setting the plants will give 
grand results. For one acre use from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds bone meal, 200 to 
300 pounds murate of potash, 50 to 100 pounds nitrate of soda. 
No. 3 Seedlinq Strawberry. 
Description by the Originator. 
For the past five years we have been producing new varieties of the straw- 
berry from seed obtained fi'om ripe 
specimens of the most desirable var- 
ieties planted near together so that 
they would mix while in blossom, 
and of the thousands of varieties 
thus produced we have one, our No. 
3. that in point of market value is 
far superior to any other sli-awberry 
yet introduced. We have fruited 
this for the past four seasons and 
have watched it carefully in all its 
characteristics, and having cultivat- 
ed it on poor land without any ma- 
nure or fertilizer, we are fully con- 
vinced that no other variety we have 
in cultivation is equal as a general 
purpose market bei-ry. It is the 
most vigorous in growth of any 
variety we ever saw and is a great 
plant maker. It has made over one 
hundred plants from one setting 
with us. It ripens early and is 
enormously productive of very large 
fruit which is of the most beautiful, 
bright, crimson color, with never a 
white tip, and its shape is the most 
uniform and best that we have ever seen in the strawberry. It is a good ship- 
per. We will ship the fruit lai'gely the coming season and there will be a great 
demand for the plants next year. The points of excellence which we claim for 
our No. 3 Seedling strawberry are (1) vigorous growth and health ot plant, (2) 
