CHOICE SMALL FRUIT Pl.ANTS. 
In Flavor, it is rich, sweet and delicious, far surpassing all the leading varieties 
of the present day, and in a marked degree resembling that acme of perfection 
President Wilder—a point that will at once place it in every family garden ; for what 
lias long been wanted was a productive berrv, of high quality, and we have it in the 
Mrs. Garlield. 
While not equal to the Wilson in shipping and keeping qualities, it is much firmer 
than any other of the very productive sorts, and gives promise of being valuable as a 
SHIPPING BERRY, 88 nearly all our reports mention its firmness. 
The Connecticut Farmer of July 5, 1884, says : “ We are indebted to Hale Brothers, 
of South Glastonbury, for a basket of their new strawberry, the Mrs. Garfield. Its 
fiavar \s of the very best, fully justifying all that has been claimed for it in this respect-; the 
fruit, judging by the specimen before us, is of good and very even size, and rich color, 
leaving little, if anything, to be desired, in any of these particulars.” 
At the last winter meeting of the Illinois State Horticultural Society, ex-President 
Galusha said ; “ Mrs. Garfield is the most promising of all the new varieties.” 
Price 50 cents per dozen, $2 per hundred, $10 per thousand. 
STANDARD LIST. 
^R^CHESTEH (P.)—A strong, robust plant, producing an an enormous crop of large 
to very large berries ; in form and color much like the Cumberland Triumph, and hold- 
xng their size to the very last picking ; quite acid, yet sprightly in flavor, moderately firm. 
The one and only fault found with it, is that in some few instances the plants have rusted 
slightly, not enough, however, to seriously lessen the crop, and all unite with us in 
saying that the Manchester is the best and most prolific medium to late strawberry in America. 
Price, 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per 50, 75 cenas per 100, $5 per 1,000. 
OLD IRON CLAD.—Plant more vigorous than Sharpless; perfect blossom; very 
prolific, and ripens extremely early; fruit, large and good; bright color. Many of 
our Eastern growers pronounce it the most promising extra early market variety. 
Price, 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per 50, 75 cents per 100, $3 per 1,000. 
PIPER.—Plant, strong and robust, producing a heavy crop of fine large globular bem'ies; 
rich dark-red color, and fine quality. This berry has been tested for some vears, and 
now, without the slightest pushing or advertising, is coming to the front as a wry 
promising market variety. * The President of the Illinois Horticultural Society, who has 
tested it from the very first, says it is an abundant bearer, of fine size and shape, and 
of most excellent flavor, and he has shipped it a two days’ journey by rail, in an 
atmospere of 92 degrees, and then kept it in good order for two days more, in open 
boxes, and he is planting it for market more extensively than all 'other varieties com¬ 
bined. Voii'l fail to test the Piper. 
Price, 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per 50, 75 per 100, $3 per 1,000. 
SUCKER STATE.—A seedling of Green Prolific, fertilized by Wilson’s Albany 
(good blood to start with), and in a marked degree it seems to possess the good points 
of both parents. Plant, extremely vigorous and healthy, and free from rust; perfect 
flowering; very prolific, being inclined to overbear; ripens a few days after Wilson, 
which it resembles in shape, but averaging larger, and somewhat brighter in color; 
very firm, and consequently a grand shipping berry. Although not fully tested, it 
gives promise of being a very valuable market variety. A gentleman in Alabama, wh6 
has tested all varieties, writes that Sucker State beats all for shipping long distances, and, 
in planting forty acres last spring, nearly all were Sucker State. 
Price, 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per .50, 75 cents per 100, $3 per 1,000. 
MINER’S GREAT PROLIFIC. —One of the very best for family use. Plant, a strong, 
free grower, with clean, briglit foliage, enormously productive; fruit large, somewhat 
irregular in shape; deep, rich, red color; firm enough for a near market; best quality. 
We have seen it growing in diflerentStates and on diflerent soils, and everywhere pro¬ 
ducing enormous crops, and we now recommend it as the best berry to lake the place 
of the well-known Charles Downing, which is failing in many places, on account of 
rust or leaf blight. 
Price. 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per 50, 75 cents per 100, $5 per 1,000, $18 per 5,000, 
$30 per 10,000. . r- . . v i , , 
SHARPLESS.—A superb variety in every respect. Plant enormous, producing very 
heavy fruit-stalks that are loaded with fruit of the largest size, the first picking, however, 
being very irregular. Quality good, ripens late. Took first prize at Massacliusetts 
Horticultural Exhibition, for largest fifty berries; also for be.<5t four quarts. 
Price, 25 cents per dozen, 50 cents per 50, 75 cents per 100, $5 per 1.000, $18 per $5,000. 
WINDSOR CHIEF (P.)—A seedling of Cliampion, fertilized by Charles Downing. 
It-s general character being similar to Champion, some growers think them identical; 
and while a berry must be fine to surpass tlie Champion, we think tlie Windsor is its 
