New Gem Everbearing Strawberry 
The Best of the Everbearers, Large, Sweet, Fresh Strawberries 
Every Day from June Until October 
The New Gem is the most outstanding intro¬ 
duction since Mastodon and its many fine 
qualities will soon make it the leading market 
variety of Everbearers. 
Gem has every other Everbearer beaten for quality 
and flavor. The fruit is well shaped and uniformly 
large. It is sparkling red in color, rich, and about 
the sweetest berry we have tasted. Unsurpassed foi 
keeping qualities and the firmness of the fruit will 
permit its being handled for long-distance shipping, 
even during hot weather. Fruit buyers last season 
took Gem ahead of any other Everbearer. 
The plants are so sturdy that it is not necessary to 
remove the first blooms. Plant this spring and have 
ripe berries in just a few weeks. 
Growers who have been dissatisfied with Everbear¬ 
ing Strawberries will find this variety to be well named 
as it truly is a “Gem.” Don’t fail to plant them this 
year and cash in while it is still new on the market. 
PRICES: 25 for 80c; 50 for $1.25; 100 for $2.10, 
postpaid. By express, not prepaid, 100 for $1.70; 250 
for $3.00; 500 for $5.35; 1,000 for $10.00. 
Mastodon Everbearing 
Mastodon has been producing its enormous crop of 
big berries during the summer and fall months for the 
past 16 years, proving that the prolific and everbear¬ 
ing habits that have made it so popular are perma¬ 
nently fixed. 
Mastodon is a great money maker, as it will produce 
a paying crop with just ordinary care. It succeeds un¬ 
der practically all climatic and soil conditions, even 
producing large crops in dry climates. Our thrifty 
plants set in the spring will produce a crop of berries 
in 90 days and continue through summer and fall un- 
I til stopped by freezing weather. 
Eighteen or twenty berries will often fill a quart box. 
They are rich glossy red, of firm and solid texture, and 
delicious in flavor. A small planting will keep the 
home table supplied with berries throughout the sum¬ 
mer and fall. A large planting will reap hundreds of 
dollars for the farmer. 
PRICES: 25 for 75c; 50 for $1.15; 100 for $1.90, 
postpaid. By express, not prepaid, 100 for $1.50; 250 
for $2.75; 500 for $4.85; 1,000 for $9.00. 
Cooper 
The largest and sweetest Strawberry grown. One of 
the most popular varieties for the market grower and 
home fruit garden. Though a mid-season variety, it 
continues to bear after others in the same class are 
gone. Cooper produces a very large deep rooted plant. 
Its long fruiting season is made possible by its strong 
feeder system, that reaches down deep in the soil, pro¬ 
viding plenty of moisture and nourishment to the fruit¬ 
ing stems. 
PRICES: 25 for 60c; 50 for $1.00; 100 for $1.65, 
postpaid. By express, not prepaid, 100 for $1.25; 250 
for $2.15; 500 for $3.70; or $6.65 per 1,000 in lots of 
1,000 or more. 
Mastodon Everbearing 
I NOT! 
[ 17 All varieties of Strawberries listed in this 
[ L, £Jj catalog are perfect flowering and do not re¬ 
quire other varieties for cross-pollenization. 
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Pear] 
The latest of all Strawberries, with the exception of the Everbearers. 
Dark red solid berries of rich flavor produced after the best of the other 
June-fruiting varieties are off the market, thus commanding a high price 
at the close of the season. A heavy producer and a strong grower, even 
on poor soils. 
Premier 
A valuable extra early Strawberry. A large berry of uniform shape 
and size, excellent quality, rich color and highly resistant to frost. 
These qualities make Premier a profitable market variety. 
DDIPpC of Pearl, Premier and Aroma; 25 for 
I IVIVLU * 60c; 50 for $1.00; 100 for $1.65, post¬ 
paid. By express, not prepaid, 100 for $1.25; 250 for $2.15; 500 
for $3.70; or $6.65 per 1,000 in lots of 1,000 or more. 
EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 
I from SEED 
Red Alpine. Seed sown early and young plants 
transplanted to the field, will produce a crop in 
the fall of the same year. Plants from the gen¬ 
eral sowing made in spring and summer yield de¬ 
licious fruit over an inch in length during the 
succeeding Strawberry season. Berries are often 
produced as late as the last of October or early 
November. Berries are not as large as the stand¬ 
ard varieties, but are of superior quality and 
have the rich wild Strawberry flavor. Pkt., 15c; 
2 pkts., 25c. 
Anrn artificial 
MANURE 
Turn your lawn cuttings and garden 
rubbish into manure with Adco. Adco 
is a powder which, when mixed with 
vegetable waste and kept moist, con¬ 
verts the whole mass into a clean, odor¬ 
less manure in 3 or 4 months. Equal 
to the barnyard product as a fertilizer 
and free from foul odor, flies, weed 
seeds, etc. You can easily convert your 
straw, corn stalks, weeds, leaves, lawn 
cuttings, etc., into manure at very little 
expense. One pound of Adco is enough 
for four cubic feet of refuse; 50 lbs. 
makes a ton of manure. 
25 lb. sack, by express, not prepaid, 
$ 2 . 00 . By freight, not prepaid, 100 lbs., 
$ 7 . 50 ; 150 lbs., $ 10 . 50 . 
BURGESS SEED & PLANT CO., Galesburg, Michigan 
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