1934 SPRING AND FALL ^ THE HOUSE OF GURNEY, INC. YANKTON, SOUTH DAKOTA 
SMALL FRUITS—(Continued) 
Gurney’s 
Everbearing Strawberries 
They will produce fruit from early July until 
heavy freezing. In our large acreage of straw¬ 
berries there was no time during the season that 
we did not have plenty of strawberries for every¬ 
body. No matter how small or large the piece of 
ground you have, you can have everbearing straw¬ 
berries for the better part of four months each 
year. One hundred plants, properly cared for, 
and if possible, placed near the house where you 
can give them a little water from the well or some 
of the wash water about once a weeK during the 
hot, dry spells, will supply an ordinary family 
with all the strawberries they can use during the 
summer. 
Strawberries 
All strawberries offered by us are perfect vari¬ 
eties. You do not need other varieties planted 
with them to make them produce. All Straw¬ 
berries shipped parcel post or express. 
Mastodon 
Four acres produced 1,386 crates or 22,176 
quarts in one season! If you have been growing 
the ordinary Everbearing Strawberries and have 
never seen the Mastodon, it will be difficult for 
you to understand just how it will produce 5,600 
quarts per acre. 
A newspaper representative on inspecting one 
of the fields of Mastodons remarked, “This is the 
greatest sight I have ever seen, but when you 
tell your customers how good the Mastodon really 
is many of them will not believe you.” The fol¬ 
lowing description will impart to you in only a 
small way the actual value of these plants. You 
must see them to realize their wonderful value. 
Plants of the Mastodon are large, vigorous, deep- 
rooted. This explains their ability to produce 
enormous loads of fine fruit, even under adverse 
conditions. They are perfectly hardy. Every 
plant produces heavily, also, runners the first 
year. The berries are larger than any of the other 
Everbearers and of high quality. Regardless 
of your past experience with Everbearing 
Strawberries, we recommend that you plant this 
new Everbearing Strawberry, which is different. 
See front cover colored picture of Mastodon. 
Per 12, 40c; 25, 60c; 50, $1.00; 100, $1.50; 500, 
$7.00; 1,000, $12.00; 5,000, $50.00. 
Progressive Everbearing 
“Put on your overcoats and pick enough 
strawberries for shortcake.” 
This is the hardiest of the everbearing Straw¬ 
berries, producing large crops of medium sized 
fruit from July until heavy freezing. This is one 
of the older varieties but still a good variety and 
should appear in all catalogs. The season has 
been favorable to growing Strawberries and our 
plants are strong and healthy. We will furnish 
instructions to planters with each order. Per 
12, 35c; 25 for 60c; 50 for $1.00; 100 for $1.75; 
500 for $6.75; 1,000 for $12.00. 
Instructions for Planting 
and Care of Strawberries 
Plant Strawberries in the 
Spring Only 
We sell millions of strawberries each year, 
and they go to all sections of the United States. 
We often ship them across the continent and 
have them reach their destination in perfect 
condition. We dig, pack and ship fresh every 
day, so they leave in the best possible condition. 
We want them to reach the customer fresh 
and green. In handling thousands upon thou¬ 
sands of growing plants there is always the 
possibility that some will be overheated in 
transit. When that happens we want you to 
notify us at once. However, more strawberries 
are killed after they are received by the planters 
than in any other way. They appear to be a 
trifle dry and they are immediately soaked. The 
crown of a strawberry plant should never be 
wet before planting, as it will rot in a few hours. 
Dunlap Strawberries 
Each plant has a number of fine roots, have 
your ground in excellent condition, force the 
flat hand into this mellow ground, withdraw 
the hand, leaving a hole an inch by about 4 
inches and about 4 or 5 inches deep. Take the 
other hand spread the roots of the plant out- 
fanshaped, the crown to be just even with the 
top of the ground when the dirt is packed 
firmly against the plant. Plant them from 1 
foot to 18 inches apart in the row and the rows 
4 feet apart. During the growing season they 
will throw out a number of runners that set 
new plants. Train these to stay close to the 
original plant, not allowing it to become more 
than a foot wide. In the fall, when the ground 
freezes, cover the plant to a depth of about one 
or two inches with straw or hay. Straw is best, 
as you can rake it in among the plants in the 
spring and allow it to remain there. This keeps 
the fruit off the ground and clean always. 
Strawberries are always sent separate from 
the balance of your order, either by parcel 
post or express. We do this that the plants 
may reach you in the best possible condition. 
'June Bearing Strawberries 
Dunlap Strawberries 
Even with the introduction of the Everbear¬ 
ing Strawberry there is still a place for the old 
standard one crop per year strawberry. The 
Mastodon .Strawberries 
Dunlap is absolutely the best. It is a self¬ 
fertilizer, fine quality berry, yields abundantly, 
and is a good shipper. 
We grow a great many' varieties of the old 
standard strawberries, but we consider the 
Dunlap the best of any for all purposes. Price 
25, 50c; 50, 75c; 100, $1.00; 500, $4.00; 1,000, 
$7.00; 5,000, $30.00. Parcel post or express 
charges paid in all cases by us on Strawberry 
plants. 
Red Gold (Sugar Saver) 
Strawberries 
We are always on the lookout for something 
better. As new varieties appear we try them 
out and when we find something that is better 
than anything else in our gardens we offer it to 
our customers with our recommendation. But 
before putting Gurney’s recommendations on 
a variety it must prove to us that it really is 
better not only in quality but in size, bearing, 
hardiness, ease of growing and every other 
point that makes it a desirable variety for you 
to raise. 
If nothing more were said of this new straw¬ 
berry, than that it requires only half as much 
sugar in canning as any other variety, you would 
be interested enough to try them out. You 
would want to be shown, and rightly so. But 
we are going to say more than that. It has the 
flavor of the wild strawberry'. Berries often 
measure S'/z inches around with as high as 43 
berries to a stem and eleven stems to the plant. 
The stems are sturdy and stand up well away 
from the ground, making picking a pleasure. 
_ .\nother good feature is their long fruiting 
time, starting early' and continuing long after 
other varieties are gone. Setting Red Gold is 
almost like having your strawberry crop insured, 
for it’s almost impossible to have the crop 
ruined by late freezes or wet weather. Wet 
weather will prevent fertilization of other 
varieties but the long season of Red Gold avoids- 
this possibility. > 
Plant Red Gold this year. You will never 
regret it. It is large, solid, a good bearer, ha,^ 
strong stems and is a Sugar Saver. 25, 60c; 
50, $1.00; 100, $1.50; 500, $7.00; 1,000, $13.00. 
Baker, Mont. 
The House of Gurney, May 6, 1933 
Yankton, S. Dak. 
Dear Sirs: 
Have just received the Strawberries in 
fine shape and that completes the order. 
Thanking you, 1 remain 
J. H. Sheehan. 
Waseca, Minn. 
May 17, 1933 
Gurney Seed & Nursery Co. 
Dear Sirs: 
I wish to thank you for the lovely Straw¬ 
berry plants received Monday. VVas very 
much surprised and they were certainly 
lovely plants; look fine now, am sure they 
will every one live. 
We have supplied five different parties 
with some of your seeds this y-ear from our 
two orders and hope to have them regular 
customers soon. We have always had 
splendid success with your seeds. 
Yours truly, Guy Cox. 
726 11th St. N. E. 
Mason City, Iowa 
Dear Sirs: May 15, 1933 
Our everbearing Strawberries arrived 
O.K. last yveek and we were well pleased 
with them; such strong looking plants. My 
collection of Gladiolus and Gannas arriy'ed 
y'esterday and will say we certainly have 
received our money’s worth. 
. Respectfully yours, 
' * Mrs. Willis M. Bemiss. 
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