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is little choice as to the method of doing it. The cultivation is always im¬ 
portant and should be started as soon as the planting is finished. If one 
will take the trouble to destroy all grass and weeds the year previous on land 
to be planted to strawberries, it will be found to pay handsomely, as the 
seeds thus destroyed will not be in your berry beds to plague the grower 
and run up the cost of hoeing. Keep them clean until frost, hoe shallow 
so as not to disturb the roots, and success is assured. One other bit of advice: 
remove all blossoms from the young plants. It will pay well in increased 
health and vigor. 
A Trial Bed Will Pay 
Just a helpful suggestion. Plan to set a trial plot of berry plants. One 
dozen of each variety will do, and the cost will be small in comparison to the 
possible results obtained. No fruit is so susceptible of a different result 
in a different soil and climate, as is the strawberry. You may read the de¬ 
scriptions of varieties in this little book, buy and set the plants, and find at 
fruiting time that you do not get the quantity or quality of fruit you had 
expected. Naturally one thinks that the catalog description was a gross 
exaggeration. Not at all. We try to tell the truth. They have just be¬ 
haved differently with you than with us. Since this is so very generally 
true, plant a trial plot of your own. It will richly repay you. It is just 
about the only way to find a correct answer to a question so persistently asked 
us: “What variety shall I plant?” We want to help, and so wish we knew, 
but so often we don’t. Of course there are fundamental factors that are 
always involved and therefore that may always be kept in mind. 
1. If you have a home market you want quantity and appearance. Then for 
early plant Premier, Dorsett and Fairfax, medium Big Joe and Lupton, 
for late Gandy or Aroma. 
2. If you ship to fairly near market, you want quantity and appearance be¬ 
cause in quantity you get your profit. We still advise Dorsett, Fairfax and 
Premier, then Big Joe and Lupton or Aroma and Gandy. 
3. If appearance alone is your chief aim, plant Chesapeake, Lupton and Big 
Joe. 
4. If quality is the biggest thing, plant Dorsett or Fairfax. 
5. If we were going to select a list of varieties to cover the season and to be 
planted on the greatest variety of soils and in any climate, we would say: 
for early Premier, Dorsett and Fairfax; midseason Lupton, Big Joe; and 
for late Gandy or Aroma. Out of an experience of a lifetime 
in berry growing we can truthfully say they cannot be beaten for general 
use. Probably you would not want them all, but you are safe in planting 
any of them. That is as safe as one can ever be on so risk a venture as 
any branch of agriculture is. 
J. W. Jones & Son, Flemington, N. J. 
Franklin, Va. April 28th, 1934. 
Gentlemen: 
Received the plants yesterday in fine shape. 
Thanking you, I am Yours truly, Grant Haver. 
We Guarantee everything we sell true to name, and believe 99 per 
cent of everything that we have ever shipped has proved so. However, 
sometimes in spite of the utmost precautions, mistakes do occur, and we will, 
upon proper proof, replace anything that proves untrue to label or refund 
the purchase price. 
