TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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Field of Progressive Strawberries 
FALL-BEARING STRAWBERRIES 
A New Departure in This, the Most Delicious of Fruits. The Fall- 
Bearing Strawberry is a Decided Success, and Making a Great Hit 
Progressive 
The best of all the fall-bearing to date. I had this variety on trial, and fruited it in a small way in 
the fall of 1912 and was so well pleased with it that, notwithstanding the enormous price charged for the 
plants last spring, I bought several thousand of them, and, after fruiting it another season, I am well pleased 
with the venture. It has usually been considered that fall-bearing Strawberries would not make plants 
freely and bed up like the spring-fruiting varieties; this theory has been completely knocked out with such 
varieties as Progressive, Superb and Americus. The Progressive makes plants equal to Dunlap, and carries 
a load of fruit while it is doing it. It is no uncommon thing to find a cluster of berries, ripe berries, on young 
plants of Progressive even before they are rooted. We have used the accompanying illustration to show 
you that the Progressive does make plants. This photograph, taken from some of our beds of this variety, 
I am sure will be very convincing on this 
point. The past August, September and 
October it was an easy matter to go in 
my patch of Progressive and count from 
100 to 150 blossoms, green berries and 
ripe berries on a single plant. On several 
occasions this summer, I have had picked 
two forty-eight-quart crates of ripe 
berries at a single picking from less than 
an acre. The quality of the fruit is not 
ordinary or medium, but is extraordinary, 
ranking with the very best. The fruit is 
highly colored, being red to the core. 
The fruit is neither very small nor very 
large, but of a medium size, and parts 
readily from the caps. If not left on 
too long after it is ripe, it will carry well. 
I shipped berries to New York the past 
summer, a distance of 250 miles, and 
they arrived in an excellent condition. 
To make a long story short, the fall¬ 
bearing Strawberry is no longer an 
experiment; but, with the advent of the 
Progressive, it is a decided success, and 
it is now not only possible but exceed- 
ingly practical to have Strawberries in 
your garden from May to November. 
Many visitors during the past summer, 
who did not believe that the fall-bearing 
Strawberry was a practical success, have Progressive Strawberries. The leader of the fall-bearing sorts 
