TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Bubach. A good market berry, bringing high prices 
BROWN’S BEAUTY. Originated in New York 
State, and with us makes a strong growth of vigor¬ 
ous, healthy foliage and produces fruit of good qual¬ 
ity and large size. The originator says, “It does 
better for me than anything I have ever grown. It 
is very sweet in flavor even before the berries are 
fully ripe. I have picked it from May 26 until Au¬ 
gust 7, and have been growing it for fourteen years, 
and have three rows of them now of that age. I 
have never changed them from the ground where 
they were first planted, and you are the only one 
who has a plant and you ought to charge more for it. 
Its record for keeping after it is ripe is very flat¬ 
tering.” 
BLACK BEAUTY. This is a large, healthy, 
well-balanced plant, which produces sweet, rich, 
dark red berries that are firm and yet free from core; 
conical in shape, large, even and smooth; deep red 
to the center. Fruit will keep a long time on the 
vines after ripening. Good for the home garden. 
BRADLEY. This is a splendid variety, with 
perfect blossoms and healthy, vigorous plants. 
The berries are of good color, uniformly conical in 
shape, with some of the largest slightly flattened at 
the tip. Large in size and firm enough to make a 
good shipping berry. • Exceedingly productive, 
having yielded with me on thin land over 5,000 
quarts to the acre without fertilization/ It is entirely 
distinct from any other berry, and ranks very high 
in the list. 
BRANDYWINE. This is another most popular 
late variety for tropical and semi-tropical sections; 
we especially recommend this for Bermuda, Cuba, 
the Pacific Coast states and the Gulf states. At 
the same time it is a valuable variety in the North 
where it originated. The plant is healthy and vig¬ 
orous, and produces a fine crop of large, handsome 
fruit, which usually brings more than the average 
price. (See illustration, page 2.) 
BUBACH (Colossus). This grand old variety has 
been on the market now for about thirty years, and 
does not seem to have lost any of its original vigor; 
for a large crop of big berries it is hard to equal. We 
have heard some complaint about its not making 
enough plants, but our land seems peculiarly ad¬ 
apted to it, and we have seldom had any trouble in 
getting all the beds that could be desired. It is not 
unusual for our beds to be thick set, 2 feet wide, and 
we believe our strain of this variety is as good as the 
original stock was thirty years ago. We always have 
a big demand for Bubach, probably owing to our 
superior strain of this variety, and we seldom fail 
to sell all the plants we have. Our present stock 
probably exceeds one-half million plants, and we 
hope to have enough to go around. One customer 
says that his Bubach were by far the finest berries 
and brought the best price; another says he has 
never seen its equal. The illustration will give you 
an idea of what a magnificent display it makes in 
the crates. Bubach is an old standard that can be 
depended upon to give a big crop of big berries. 
BIG JOE. This is a new variety that is being 
grown to considerable extent locally in this county, 
and has sprung into prominence very quickly. It 
has been fruited in this section two seasons, and it 
has shown such vigorous growth and such a wonder¬ 
ful productiveness of large, handsome berries that 
bring top prices in market that everybody who has 
seen it is wanting plants. Last fall, New York 
commission men were inquiring of us where they 
could get plants of the Big Joe, stating that they 
wanted it for some of their best shippers. While 
we have not fruited it personally, we have been 
watching it since it was first grown in this vicinity, 
and are so well pleased with it that we expect to 
plant a considerable acreage for fruit. As soon as 
we saw it in fruit the past season we procured the 
entire stock of'some of the largest growers of this 
variety. Here is a pointer: “Plant some Big Joe, 
and you will never regret it.” (See colored illus¬ 
tration, page 14.) 
CHESAPEAKE 
We think we are justified in our pride of being 
the introducers of the most popular berry in America 
—the Chesapeake. While there is a great deal that 
could be added to its previous description, we know 
of no statement that has ever been made concerning 
it that has not been fully borne out; in fact, many 
write that we do not praise it enough. The value of 
this new berry is told in the continued increase of 
sales after the people have seen it in fruit on their 
own soil. While it does not make as many plants as 
some others, and the plants will never be cheap, as 
compared with such varieties as Klondyke, Senator 
Dunlap, etc., the demand increases by leaps and 
bounds. We have had enough praises of the Chesa¬ 
peake from growers everywhere to fill this catalogue 
from cover to cover. We have received these un¬ 
solicited and sell twice as many plants of this variety 
as of any other one kind. Although this variety was 
not introduced until 1906, it is now grown com- 
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