TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
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RiiViarh (Colossus). This grand old variety has 
OUDaCU ^ een 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 adapted 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, and, probably owing to our superior 
strain of this variety, we seldom fail to sell all the 
plants we have. We have nearly 400,000 plants 
this season and hope to have enough to go around, 
although half a million failed to supply the demand 
last year. One customer says that his Bubach were 
by far the finest Strawberries, and brought the best 
price in his market; 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. 
RIP I OF This is a new variety, which we 
DIU Jot. offered for the first time last year, 
although it has been grown locally in this county to 
a considerable extent for two or three seasons. It 
has shown such a vigorous growth and such a won¬ 
derful productiveness of rich, handsome berries that 
bring top prices on the market, that everybody who 
has seen it is wanting plants of it. This season it 
sold at the station at a big premium over other va¬ 
rieties carried there. We did not have any plants 
left for fruiting on our own farm, but we saw fields 
of Big Joe, as grown by some of the growers in this 
locality, and they were certainly fine. We set out 
all the plants we had for fruit, and expect to pick 
from them next spring. The colored illustration on 
page 15 is an exact picture. Plant some Big Joe 
and get some big prices for your Strawberries. 
WE HAVE LOTS OF GOOD ONES 
Received the Strawberry plants from you about ten days ago. 
I have read “figures don’t lie,” and wonder if you have a testi¬ 
monial which can beat this. I ordered one hundred and twelve 
plants, and got one hundred and twenty. All but one are doing 
finely. I picked seventeen flowers off from one yesterday.— 
Jos. H. Sargent, Middlesex County, Connecticut, May 2, 1915. 
Bubach. A reliable berry for all markets; sells for a price above the average 
CHESAPEAKE 
Hats off to the Chesapeake! It is the most popular berry in America today, and we are justly proud 
of being its introducers. We know of no statement ever made about this berry that has not been fully 
borne out; the fact is, many growers write that we don’t praise it enough, and we get sometimes as many 
as three and four letters a day praising the Chesapeake. The value of this berry is told in the continued 
increase of sales, after people have seen it in fruit on their own soil. We sold nearly a million and a half 
last season, and probably could have sold half a million more, if we had had the plants; we turned down 
order after order. It does not make as many plants as some others, and therefore the plants will never be 
cheap as compared with such varieties as Klondyke and Senator Dunlap, yet the demand increases by 
leaps and bounds. We have received, unsolicited, enough praises of the Chesapeake to fill this catalogue 
from cover to cover, and we sell twice as many plants of this variety as any other. Although it was not 
introduced until 1906, it is grown in practically every section of the United States where Strawberries are 
grown. Many of the largest growers use it for their main crop. The blossoms are perfect, fruit uniform and 
large, averaging larger than the Gandy and, as compared with that popular old variety, it is more pro¬ 
ductive, firmer, of much better quality and without green tips. The fruit of the Chesapeake is borne on 
large stems, the greater portion of which stand upright, holding the fruit from the ground; the time of 
ripening is three or four days earlier than the Gandy. It does not set an immense quantity of fruit, but 
every blossom makes a berry, the result is a good crop of berries that are well developed and strictly fancy, 
holding up in size late in the season. Personally we consider it the very best late variety on the market, 
whether grown for home use or distant market. Our greatest difficulty has been to grow enough plants to 
supply the demand, which increases from year to year. This year we have over twenty acres planted to 
this one variety, and hope to have enough plants to supply the trade, but we never have had and really 
don’t expect to have enough this year,—it seems that we cannot get enough. The Geneva, New York. 
Experiment Station Bulletin, dated July, 1913, and entitled, “Some New and Noteworthy Fruits,” says 
