HART’S NURSERY. SPENCERVILLE, INDIANA 
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A Field of Our Premier Plants 
OUR BUSINESS METHOD 
IN LOOKING at and studying catalogs for many years we are convinced that many 
statements made therein, are contradictory, and illustrations used, are over-drawn. 
We believe this is unfair to the buyer, and opposed to sound business methods. 
Why lead people to believe you can make 12 to 15 hundred dollars profit from an 
acre of strawberries? We do not say this is impossible, but we do say it is improbable. 
Why not tell the buyer what he may reasonably expect if he gives his planting good 
care? Why say in your catalog that “Cumberland is the largest Raspberry grown,” 
and in your description that “Logan is as large or larger than Cumberland”? This 
catalog rvas written with these thoughts in mind. You will not be misled. 
STRAWBERRY HISTORY 
S TRAWBERRIES were first discovered in Virginia, and for a long period of time 
only “chance seedlings” were used as foundation stock by growers. That is, 
they went out among the hills and along the rivers and picked up the best wild 
varieties and cultivated them in their gardens. By clean cultivation they increased 
the size of these berries. 
Gibson, formerly called Pocomoke, or Parsons Beauty, is one variety that has 
come down to us from these early small fruit growers. 
Nurserymen no longer depend upon chance seedlings. The U. S. Department 
of Agriculture is now developing new varieties scientifically, which are far in advance 
of the old varieties. 
Dorsett and Fairfax are two of the latest introductions which combines many of 
the good qualities such as size, shape, quality, and healthy foliage, which the old 
varieties often lacked. 
STRAWBERRIES 
We list only Perfect Flowering Varieties. That is, you can plant all of our Straw¬ 
berries alone and they will bear. 
WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGE LOTS 
OF PLANTS . . 
