TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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Myrtle stands extreme heat and drought (see page 14) 
near the color of the berries and deep-set that they 
are scarcely noticeable. Its excellent quality, pro¬ 
ductiveness and large size make it very popular. 
NEW HOME. Of Western origin, and intro¬ 
duced by me several years ago. It has made a great 
record here as a profitable and productive shipping 
berry. I have shipped it by the carload and re¬ 
ceived excellent returns; but for some reason it does 
not seem to be popular with the majority of growers, 
and for this reason I would not advise planting it, 
except in a small way, until you have seen what 
it will do on your land. It is probably one of the 
best-keeping berries grown, and can be shipped 
almost any distance. 
OHIO BOY. This variety makes a strong, vigor¬ 
ous growth and is very productive, the season of 
ripening very late. I was slow to recommend this 
variety at first, owing to the fact that its foliage 
shows unmistakable relation to the Bedarwood, 
which is a soft berry; I find, however, that the Ohio 
Boy has all the vigor and productiveness of the 
Bedarwood, with fruit much larger in size and 
firm enough to make an excellent shipping berry. 
The blossoms are perfect. Following this berry 
through the season, I find that it gives an immense 
crop of delicious berries, lasting late in the season; 
in fact, it is one of the latest we have. 
OREM. This is another late variety of excep¬ 
tional quality. For an exceedingly late variety it is 
my choice of any I have seen up to this time; being 
very firm, it can be left on the vines two or three 
days after it is ripe and still be in good condition. 
It is one of the kind that bears under almost any 
conditions. It commences to ripen with the Gandy, 
and bears an abundance of firm, large berries, which 
last until after the Gandy are gone. It is more 
productive than the Gandy, larger in size, firmer in 
quality; color light red with yellow seeds and 
dark green caps, which make it very attractive. 
PARSONS* BEAUTY. Originated in this 
county near Parsonsburg. This is a very pro¬ 
ductive, medium large, good-quality berry; espe¬ 
cially recommended for near market, where it can be 
picked and sold the same day, or picked late in the 
afternoon and put on the market the following 
morning. Some claim that it will ship well, but I 
have never felt that I could recommend it as a 
shipping berry, especially where the distance is 
very great. It makes a luxuriant growth of dark 
red berries. 
PAUL JONES. A pistillate variety, claimed to be 
a seedling of Haverland and Brandywine. It is 
wonderfully productive of beautiful berries and an 
excellent keeper; brilliant and glossy in color, it 
seems to have a varnished surface. It is claimed 
that the berries kept a week in a common cellar 
were exhibited at the Worcester County Horticul¬ 
tural Society, in Massachuestts, by the side of 
fresh-picked berries, and that the only difference in 
appearance was the added richness in color in the 
week-old berries. It is said to be fully as productive 
as the Haverland. 
PURCELL’S EARLY. Originated near Elmira, 
New York, by Mr. G. A. Purcell, and was first 
offered to the public two years ago. This variety 
makes plenty of plants and sets an immense crop 
of fruit that ripens very early and is very firm. 
This would make an excellent market variety if 
the fruit were a little larger. 
PRIDE OF DELAWARE. This has made an 
excellent growth here and has bean fruited once; 
but the season being excessively dry it did not have 
a very good show; even under adverse conditions 
gave some very fine fruit. The originator describes 
it as “a berry worthy of its name; large, firm, colors 
up well, nearly uniform in shape and size, the foliage 
is very bluff and stalky, holding its fruit up from 
the ground. It has a large green cap closely resem¬ 
bling the Gandy. It ripens two or three days earlier 
than the Gandy, and on high soil, where it was 
originated, it is fully three times as productive.” 
PRIDE OF MICHIGAN. Originated in Mich¬ 
igan in 1902, and described as follows: “It is a fine 
shipper and an excellent canner; the meat is very 
firm and exceedingly rich; solid in texture and very 
smooth, with flavor unexcelled; the foliage is large 
and so is the bloom, which has an added advantage 
of being exceedingly rich in pollen. I have gathered 
in our testing plot several quarts of great, handsome 
luscious berries, of a quality exceeding anything I 
have ever grown.” 
Ohio Boy produces immense crops of delicious berries 
