Strawberries 
L AST SEASON was the most favorable for fruiting a large crop of strawberries 
we have experienced in several years. No frost or drouth, all varieties were 
at their best. My stock of plants for 1908 will not be so large as usual. On 
account of the heavy demand for plants in the spring would advise early orders, so 
as to get just what you want. The past season was all that could be desired in 
healthy plant growth. My plants for the trade will be fully up to the standard as 
heretofore. 
VARIETIES 
The Highland Strawberry the most promising of recent introductions, is a chance 
seedling found by T. B. Carlisle. lie has tested it for ten years and finds it the best 
money-making variety he grows. The plants are large, healthy and more pro- 
ductive than any other variety. Fruit large, fine color and form, good quality and 
moderately firm. 
FOUR years’ report of the 
OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 
1904 
The Highland, this season, was the most prolific of the one hundred and forty- 
six varieties composing the Station’s test plants. Fruit medium to large, bluntly 
conical; color bright scarlet; flesh red clear through. Plants very large, strong and 
vigorous. Flowers imperfect and quite resistant to cold. It is amply firm for the 
grower who is within reasonable distance of his market; and for this class of grow- 
ers the Highland gives bright promise of being a great “business” berry and a 
money maker for even the small planter. 
I 9°5 
Highland was the most prolific variety in our collection. It is very promising 
and desirable, especially for the grower who is situated near a good home market. 
1906 
Highland for the third season stands in the front rank of varieties remarkable 
for prolificacy; this season again surpassing all others in the quantity of fruit pro- 
duced. 
1907 
During the four years Highland has been upon the Station grounds it has not 
failed to give very prolific crops. It seems strong and persistent in all its admirable 
points. A quart maker of bright handsome berries of very acceptable quality. 
Saratoga — from Saratoga Co., medium to very late, a seedling of the Sample fertilized 
with Glen Mary and seems to inherit the good qualities of both parents with add- 
ed lateness. The Introducer says: I have full confidence in the originator’s descrip- 
tion for he is very conservative and will not send out a new variety until it is fully 
tested. Plants strong and healthy, blossoms perfect, berries large to very large, 
fine shape, good quality, deep red in color and very firm. It is very productive and 
with ordinarily good culture has yielded at the rate of 5918 quarts per acre at one 
picking. It has produced more and belter berries at the last picking than Gandy. 
Chipman. — This variety was first planted for field culture four years ago, and has 
always proved superior to all other varieties in all kinds of seasons. The Introducer 
says: It is equal to the Bubach in many ways and superior in other respects. The 
plants are strong upright growers with large perfect blossoms. The fruit is very 
