CHOICE SMALL FRUIT PLANTS. 
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warm early soil, or that having a southern exposure, and the latter ones on the heavier 
moist soil, or that with a northern or western exposure. If you already have a taste 
for fruit culture, and have a fair start with the family garden, in making a selection of 
varieties, choose first in regard to eating qualities, placing productiveness second ; but 
to a beginner I would recommend planting first tliose most hardy and productive, 
regardless of quality, and wlien you and your family get w’ell filled with these, it will 
be time enough to plant the better sorts. For market, plant those that will produce 
the greatest number of quarts, of large and showy fruit.” The general public buy with 
their eyes and are not yet willing to pay for quality. 
See list of “ Varieties for Special Purposes.” 
The Fertilization of Blossoms. 
The blossoms of most varieties are perfect or bi-sexual, except those marked (P), 
which are destitute of stamens, and are termed pistilale or imperfect flowering varie¬ 
ties, and must be planted near some perfect flowering sort, or they will produce little 
or no fruit. 
BI-SEXUAL OR PERFECT BLOSSOM. PISTILATE OR IJIPERFECT BLOSSOM. 
Cultivation and Management. 
If planting is done in spring, all blossoms should be cut off as fast as they appear, 
and no fruiting be allowed the first season, as it so exhausts the plants as to greatly 
enfeeble their growth, and in many cases kill them entirely, especially should dry 
weather follow the fruiting season. As soon as plants become well established, com¬ 
mence running the cultivator between the rows, and continue it once in a week or 
ten days all tlirough the season. 
Mulching. 
At the approach of winter, as soon as the ground is frozen, cover the whole field 
with a mulch of some sort, salt-marsh hay, pine needles, or tobacco stems are the best 
materials, although straw, coarse stable-manure, corn-stalks, or forest leaves may be 
used to good advantage. Do not remove this in the spring, as the plants can easily 
grow' up through it, and it is of great assistance in retaining moisture during the 
fruiting season, as w’ell as keeping the fniit clean. 
VARIETIES FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES. 
To assist in making a selection, we have classified some of the best of the leading 
sorts, as follows: 
Largest Berries. 
President Lincoln, Sharpless, MANCHESTER, Longfellow, Cornelia, Dan Boone 
and Daisey. 
Most Productive. 
MANCHESTER, MRS. GARFIELD, Windsor Chief, Crescent, James Vick, 
Miner, Daisey, Cornelia and Dan Boone. 
Best for Market. 
MANCHESTER, MRS. GARFIELD, Windsor Chief, Miner, Piper, James 
Vick, Crescent, Daisey, Cornelia and Dan Boone. 
VARIETIES AND PRICES. 
We will send Strawberry plants at dozen rates by mail, postage paid, but at 100 
rates purchasers 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 ; packed in boxes of damp moss, and delivered at freight or 
express offices free of charge. 
We 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. 
Don’t send to us for Cheap, Poor Stock. 
