SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1901. 
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The Fruit Garden is an indispensable part of any rural home. It is a delight, a satisfaction, a con¬ 
venience, a profit, and a source of the most healthful and delicious food supply any family can have. 
Beginning with the Strawberry in May, the supply is never exhausted until the last winter Apples have 
gone. Juneberries, Cherries, Raspberries, Wineberries, Currants, 
Blackberries, Blums, Beaches, Bears, Grapes, etc., follow successively. 
They save expense, are luscious and convenient, and any place well 
stocked with fruits always finds a ready sale at a good price; they 
enhance its value often many times in excess of its cost. 
We have for years made a specialty of Choice Bruit Novelties, and 
have introduced nearly all the leading sorts for ten years phst. The 
variety here offered are all of recent introduction, and each and every 
one possesses great merit. The trees here offered are young and thrifty 
and will make a very rapid growth and bear quickly. When fruit trees 
or shrubs are received before they can be planted, they may be safely 
kept for any length of time by having the roots packed in boxes of moist 
soil and stored in a cool cellar or shed. It is important to order fruit 
early, that they may be planted out before the foliage starts. 
At prices named, we send strong, robust young stock by mail, 
postpaid; but by express we can send much larger trees, especially 
1 Beaches, Apples, Blums, etc. Strawberries, Raspberries, Dewberries, 
> Grapes, etc., are of course as well sent by mail as by express, as far as 
. size is concerned. Our fruit stock is all vigorous and healthy, and 
^ J whether you have it sent by mail or express, it will be sure to please you 
-¥■ by its rapid and vigorous growth and early bearing. 
1 No. ISO. 
STATE OF NEW YORK, 
Department of Agriculture. 
i Certificate of Inspection of l 
. Nursery Stock. 
I This is to certify that the stock in ' 
the nursery of John Lewis Childs, of * 
' Floral Park, County of Nassau, State | 
) of New York, was duly examined in , 
. compliance with the provisions of * 
* Chapter 182 of the Laws of 1898. and it ( 
k was found to be apparently free in all. 
[ respects from any contagious or infec- 1 
t tious plant disease or diseases, or the ( 
fc San Jose scale, or other dangerously t 
r injurious insect pest or pests. 
9 Dated August U, 1900. Albany, N. Y. ( 
) C. A. WILTING, ( 
fe Commissioner of Agriculture 
Choice Strawberries. 
Of all fruits known to cultivation, the Strawberry is 
conceded to be the most luscious, and is a universal favorite; 
yet it is not grown by one-half the people who might grow it 
just as well as not. It is but a few hours’ work to plant a 
Strawberry bed and care for it during the year, and no work 
can possibly yield a better return. Strawberries bought in 
the market are not to be compared with the luscious ruby 
beauties, fresh and ripe, from the vines. The following are 
the very best varieties in cultivation—the cream of all—in¬ 
cluding extra early, medium and late sorts: 
Great Washington— The real giant among big Straw¬ 
berries. This improved new sort originated in the State 
of Washington. Samples which we received in February 
were potted, and bore fine fruit in April. Several hundred 
plants planted out in April fruited fairly well, though 
no fruit was expected the first season. The berry is not 
only the very largest arid handsomest in cultivation, but 
by all odds the best flavor. It is also a great cropper 
and vines are extremely healthy and vigorous, a merit 
not possessed by any other very large sort. What more 
need be said. It is certainly the grandest Strawberry 
ever introduced, 60c. per doz.; $2.00. perioo; $15.00 per 
1 , 000 . 
