J. W. JONES & SON, FRANKLIN, VIRGINIA 
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is little choice as to the method of doing it. The cultivation is always im¬ 
portant and should be started as soon as the planting is finished. If one 
will take the trouble to destroy all grass and weeds the year previous on land 
to be planted to strawberries, it will be found to pay handsomely, as the 
seeds thus destroyed will not be in your berry beds to plague the grower 
and run up the cost of hoeing. Keep them clean until frost, hoe shallow 
so as not to disturb the roots, and success is assured. 
T.ef s Have A Trial ‘T^ed 
Just a helpful suggestion. Plan to set a trial plot of berry plants. One 
dozen of each variety will do, and the cost will be small in comparison to the 
possible results obtained. No fruit is so susceptible of a different result 
in a different soil and climate, as is the strawberry. You may read the de¬ 
scriptions of varieties in this little book, buy and set the plants, and find at 
fruiting time that you do not get the quantity or quality of fruit you had 
expected. Naturally one thinks that the catalog description was a gross 
exaggeration. Not at all. We try to tell the truth. They have just be¬ 
haved differently with you than with us. Since this is so very generally 
true, plant a trial plot of your own. It will richly repay you. It is just 
about the only way to find a correct answer to a question so persistently asked 
us: “What variety shall I plant?” We want to help, and so wish we knew, 
but so often we don’t. Of course there are fundamental factors that are 
always involved and therefore that may always be kept in mind. 
1. If you have a home market you want quality and appearance. Then for 
early plant Premier and Blakemore, medium Big Joe and Lupton, Gandy, 
Aroma or Big Late. 
2. If you ship to fairly near market, you want quantity and appearance be¬ 
cause in quantity you get your profit. We still advise Blakemore and 
Premier, then Big Joe and Lupton or Aroma and Gandy. 
o. If appearance alone is your chief aim, plant Chesapeake and Lupton, and 
even here Premier and Big Late might also find a place. 
4. If quality is the biggest thing, plant Wm. Belt and Gibson. 
5. If we were going to select a list of varieties to cover the season and to be 
planted on the greatest variety of soils and n any climate, we would say: 
for early Premier and Blakemore, midseason Aroma, Lupton, Big Joe and 
Sample, for late Gandy or Big Late. Out of an experience of a lifetime 
in berry growing we can truthfully say they cannot be beaten for general 
use. Probably you would not want them all, but you are safe in planting 
any of them. That is as safe as one can ever be on so risk a venture as 
any branch of agriculture is. 
Gentlemen: Follansbee, W. Va., 
Please ship me parcels post C. 0. D. 800 Premier strawberry plants. 
You have been recommended to me by Mr. C. E. Agnew. I understand that 
the plants sell for about $2.50 per thousand. Please make immediate ship¬ 
ment. Very truly yours, C. D. Jacobs. 
We Guarantee everything we sell true to name, and believe 99 pre 
cent of everything that we have ever shipped has proved so. However, 
sometimes in spite of the utmost precautions, mistakes do occur, and we will, 
upon proper proof, replace anything that proves untrue to label or refund 
the purchase price. 
