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Terms cash with the order from unknown correspondents. 
Parties may price one or more plants at dozen rates, 50 at 100 rates, and 500 at 
1,000 rates. 
Eeniit by registered letter, P. 0. order on Hartford, or draft on Jicw York, 
Special terms to dealers, agents, and large planters. Parties wishing to buy 5,000, 
10,000, or 20,000 plants, will do well to correspond with us before purchasing elsewhere. 
Explicit directions for marking and shipping packages should accompany the 
order. Where the mode of conveyance is left to us to choose, we shall exercise our 
best judgment; but in all cases articles at the risk of the purchaser after being shipped. 
Should loss or delay occur, the forwarder? alone must be held responsible. Freight to 
be paid by the purchaser after the plants are delivered at station here. 
Should we be out of any variety ordered, we 'will substitute others of equal or 
greater value, unless ortherwise ordered. 
Parties wishing us to make a selection of varieties for them, will please state char¬ 
acter of soil; also, whether the fruit is to be grown for market or home use, and 
whether fine, showy fruit, or simply quantity, is wanted. 
Plants by Mail.—Parties living at a distance from railroad or express office often 
find it a convenience to have plants sent by mail. We prefer, however, to send by 
freight or express where practicable, as we can use much more moss in packing, (bus 
making sure of plants arriving in better condition. Plants in pots must always go by 
freight or express. During the hot weather of July and August all plants should be 
sent by express, if possible, as they can be packed more loosely, and are therefore not 
as apt to heat as when packed tightly and sent by mail. 
We will send Strawberry plants at dozen rates by mail, postage paid, but at 100 
rates purchasers must add 35 cents to prepay postage. Pot-groxvn plants cannot he sent 
hy mail. 
5^*Dip the plants, as soon as received, in water, and bury the roots in moist, 
shady ground, till you are ready to set them out. 
POT-GROWN PLANTS, 
or which 100 Plants will produce more fruit, and finer, the first season, than 600 
ordinary Layer Plants. 
Pot-grown Strawberry plants are now used almost 
exclusively for Summer and Fall planting. Our plan 
of growing them is to take inch flower-pots, and 
plunge them into the earth near the young growing 
plant, fill the pot with rich earth, and take the young 
plant with its roots just starting and press it lightly 
into the pot, w’ater it thoroughly, and in two or three 
weeks it will be 'well rooted, and may be removed from 
the pot with the ball of earth adhering; this we wrap 
in oiled paper and pack in boxes of damp moss, with 
the tops exposed. The plants may be sent a long dis¬ 
tance, either by freight or express, and arrive in fine 
condition. Our Pol-plants are unusually fine this season. 
In setting pot-grou'n plants, make a small hole large enough to hold a pint of water; 
then take the potted plant, and crush the ball of earth just enough to loosen the roots a 
little, as they will start to grow much sooner than if set without such treatment. 
^^No better evidence as to the superiority of pot-grown plants could be desired 
than the fact that experts in growing Strawberries everywhere plant them almost ex¬ 
clusively. "Where parties wish several hundred plants we ■^•ill pot them to order at 
$1.25 per 100, in addition to cost of plants, if the order is received three weeks in advance of 
shipment. 
Potted plants set uo-^v will give a good crop of frnit next June, while if planting 
is delayed until Spring you get no frnit until the following year. 
■WELL-GROWN POT PLANT. 
CULTIVATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
The three things necessary to produce a perfect crop of fine, large Strawberries, 
are manure, moisture, and thorough cultivation, and it is almost impossible to get too 
much of either, provided they are judiciously applied. Almost any soil that will pro¬ 
duce good crops of corn, and is well drained, either naturally or artificially, -null give 
abundant returns, if the above requirements are complied with. The best fertilizer is 
well-rotted stable manure, thoroughly incorporated with the soil, but, as with us, it is 
very expensive. We have tested commercial fertilizers of all kinds, and find ground 
bone, fish guano, and wood ashes, best of all; but as ashes are scarce, we now use 
muriate of potash in their stead. Apply 600 pounds potash, 400 pounds fish guano, and 
2000 pounds bone per acre. The more the ground is enriched, the larger and more 
abundant will be the berries. Nitrite of soda may be substituted for the fish if it is 
impossible to get the latter. 
