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ELM FRUIT-P-ARM CATALOGUE AND PRICE-LIST. 
VARIETIES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES. 
The Strawberry season at Elm Fruit-Farm usually extends over a period of from six to seven 
weeks, and if purchasers will use a little care in the selection of varieties, and the soil for plant- 
inj, they may enjoy this most delicious fruit equally as long. Planting the early varieties on light 
soil, or that sloping to the south, and the late sorts on heavj’, moist soil, with a northern exposure 
is the best way to effect this result. To assist in making a selection, we have classified some of 
-the best of the leading sorts, as follows: ^ 
FOR LIGHT OR DRY SANDY SOIL. 
EARLY. 
ZiNXi’S. G-ai'fielcl. 
'Crescent. 
Wilson. 
■Crystal City. 
Piper. 
MEDIUM. 
jMaTich.G3ter. 
Mrs. Garfield. 
Miner- 
Vineland. 
Crescent. 
LATE. 
JNXaiicl'i ester. 
Mt. Vernon. 
Kentucky. 
EARLY. 
iSIrs. Ga^^'Field. 
Pioneer. 
Crescent. 
Piper. 
LATE. 
jVIancliester. 
Windsor Chief. 
Mt. Vernon. 
President 
Longfellow. 
FOR MOIST, RICH LOAMY SOIL. 
MBDll'.M. 
aVIaiacliester. 
iblrs. Garlield. 
Windsor Chief. 
Sharpless. 
James Vick. 
Miner. 
LARGEST BERRIES. 
Lincoln, Sharpless, Pioneer, MANCHESTER, Jersey Queen and 
MOST PRODUCTIVE. 
MANCHESTER, MRS. GARFIELD, Windsor Chief, Mt. Vernon, Crescent, 
James Vick and Miner. 
BEST FOR MARKET. 
MANCHESTER, MRS. GARFIELD, Windsor Chief, Mt. Vernon, Miner, 
Piper, James Vick and Crescent. 
VARIETIES AND PRICES. 
\\ e will send Strawberrj’plants at dozen rates by mail, postage paid, but at too rates pur¬ 
chasers must add 35 cents per 100 to prepay postage. 
The prices quoted are for plants well trimmed, with roots nicely straightened, and tied in 
bundles of fifty; picked in boxes of damp moss, and delivered at freight or express offices free of 
charge. 
V e have many others not on this list, and can supply any variety in cultivation, if wanted ; 
yet it will be found that this list contains about all that are worthy of culture. 
NEW VARIETIES. 
[Those marked (P) are Pistilate, and will not fruit alone ; must be placed by the side of some perfect flowering sort.J 
MKS. GARFIELD.—After the inlroduction of the Manchester Strawberry, we felt as 
though 7 ve had given to the public the best medium to late ripening variety that could be had, and 
that for a few years to come, nothing better could be wished for in that direction; and we began to 
look about for an C(tvly berry lo equal it in productiveness and beauty of fruit. 
Being in correspondence with intelligent and progressive fruit growers in almost every county 
of every suite in the Union, constantly receiving letters describing new and promising seedlings 
our Mr. J. 11 . Male started out in May, 1SS2, and in six weeks time traveled over five 
thousand miles, visiting fifteen states and Canada, seeing and testing more than one hundred new 
and unnamed seedlings, many of them far better than half the varieties now before the public, and 
among the many grown by that reliable and conscientious Horticulturist, Matthew Crawford of 
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, found in the GAItFIELB the one herry possessino 
more of the desired qualities than any other^ either old or new. On feamincr of 
parentage, ‘‘ a seedling of the Crescent,” we were fully convinced of the wisdom of the words of 
our venerable friend, the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, when visiting him the winter previous, and 
looking at the many seedlings he then had growing under glass, nearly all grown from the Cres- 
cent, the pollen being carried with a brush from many difierent varieties. 
Fully appreciating the importance of PEDIGREE IN PLANTS as 
we liaTe for years made a most CAREFUL SELKC- 
TION OF ALL STOCK FOR PROPAGATION, and we now offer for sale 
believe to be equal, if not SUPERIOR, IN 
HEALl U, YIGOR and PRODUCTIVENESS to ANY IN THE COUNTRY. 
