TRUE-TO-NAME STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
37 
CHESAPEAKE 
“This is the berry that 
brings the money.” So 
said Mr. W. O. Davis, of 
the commission house of 
W. O. & H. W. Davis, 
New York City, this 
spring when walking over 
our young Strawberry 
beds. Chesapeake is the 
most popular fancy mar¬ 
ket berry in America to¬ 
day and we are justly 
proud of being its intro¬ 
ducers. We have enough 
praises of the Chesapeake 
berry from our customers 
to fill this book from 
cover to cover. The vajue 
of the berry is told in the 
continued increase of sales 
after people have seen it in fruit on their own soil. 
Chesapeake does not make as many plants as some 
other varieties and, therefore, the plants will never 
be cheap as compared with such varieties as Senator 
Dunlap and Klondyke. With fair growing con¬ 
ditions just about enough plants are produced for a 
good fruiting bed. Many of the largest growers in 
the country are using Chesapeake for their main 
crop and they are amply justified in doing so. The 
foliage is very strong and healthy; we do not 
remember ever seeing a bit of rust on it. The plants 
are very strong and robust and have very long roots 
which make it one of the best drought-resisters. 
The shape of the berry is seen in the accompanying 
photograph. They are uniformly large, with promi¬ 
nent yellow seeds and an attractive, bright green 
cap, altogether making Chesapeake one of the most 
beautiful and attractive berries in the package that 
we have ever seen. The berries are unexcelled in 
quality, equaled only by 
a few varieties, such as 
McAlpin and Wm. Belt. 
The Chesapeake does not 
set an extraordinarily 
heavy crop of fruit; it 
does set a good crop. 
And the valuable 
thing about it is 
that every blossom 
Fancy Chesapeake berries on the farm of Miles Rausch, Union Co., N. J. 
matures a berry and the last ones are almost as 
large as the first. The flesh is very firm in texture 
and the berries will keep for many days in perfect 
condition, so that altogether it is an ideal berry for 
home use, for local market, or for distant shipment. 
Often new berries are reported to “sell as well as 
the Chesapeake,” the inference being that no higher 
recommendation was necessary. The fruit is borne 
on heavy stems which hold it well off the ground. 
One of the most valuable features of the Chesapeake, 
especially in the North, is the fact that the blossoms 
do not start out until very late, which makes it 
practically frost-proof. In many sections growers 
report a full crop of Chesapeake in years when most 
other varieties have been killed by the late frost. 
Read what others say about it. “The plants were 
particularly good, especially the Chesapeake and 
Glen Mary. The former is considered the best 
Strawberry grown in this neighborhood” says Mr. 
A. C. Davis, of Chautauqua County, New York. 
Mr. C. C. Hough, of Kay County, Oklahoma, says: 
“The plants I purchased of you last fall were so nice 
and arrived in such excellent condition that 
I must have more from your gardens. Chesa¬ 
peake is certainly the ideal 
berry for this climate. It is the 
only plant I had that 
withstood perfectly the 
long-continued drought of 
last year in 
Oklahoma. It 
stood up and 
grew when al¬ 
most all of the 
other kinds I 
had burned up. 
This year we 
had excessive 
rainfall during 
fruiting season 
and while all 
other kinds I 
had rotted on 
the vines,Chesa¬ 
peake bore right 
along and I did 
not find a rotten 
berry in the bed. 
It is a vigorous 
plant, and the 
berries it pro¬ 
duces are deli- 
Chesapeake. Stands out among the few kinds at the top cious. My plants 
