TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 13 
McALPIN. 
Our atten¬ 
tion was 
called to this variety by 
W. O. & H. W. Davis, 
commission merchants of 
New York City, who han¬ 
dle large quantities of 
fruit and know what good 
berries are. They wrote 
us as follows: “You can 
come up any day you wish 
to see these berries. This 
is the finest berry that we 
have ever sold, and we do 
not except any berry we 
have seen sold on the 
market for a great many 
years. Come if you pos¬ 
sibly can.” The same peo¬ 
ple wrote us later as fol¬ 
lows: “We had three 
shipments of the McAlpin 
Strawberry this morning, 
and sold them for 23 cents 
a quart wholesale; the 
Missionary (see page 14). Popular with marketmen 
trade is carried away with this berry. This is the 
third season the berry has been fruited, and we 
think it far superior to any berry we have ever sold.” 
In size it is large, a heavy yielder, and holds up well 
in size until the very last picking. We fruited the 
McAlpin the past year and are well pleased with it. 
The berries are beautiful scarlet in color, very large 
and very fine in quality, shows up well in the package 
and always brings top prices on the market. The 
plant is perfectly healthy and is a vigorous grower. 
It will grow on almost any kind of soil; in 
fact, it grows so well that the plants have 
to be thinned out of the plant-bed, else 
they will become so thick they cannot 
bear their best crop 
of fruit; will 
respond readily to 
any care given it. 
We recommend the McAlpin as an excellent berry, 
both for home use and for market. Knowing its merits 
we have grown a large stock of this variety this year 
and we want all of our customers who grow Straw¬ 
berries for market to plant at least a few. If you have 
failed with other varieties, plant McAlpin and suc¬ 
ceed. See illustration in natural colors, page 6. 
A GOOD BEGINNING 
I will give you my first experience in Strawberry-raising. 
I planted one-fourth acre, nearly all Chesapeake, 
with a few others; had I planted all Chesapeake, the 
crop would have been about a crate or two more. 
But I am well pleased with my first crop. We picked 
3,273 boxes, and sold $267.05 worth, besides what 
we have used.—J. M. 
Weber, Lancaster 
County, Pa., March 
12, 1915. 
Late Jersey iant (see page 12 ). The extra-large size is a prominent feature of this variety 
