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Fall Bearing Strawberries Are Frost Proof and 
the same year. If you can sell them at 
25c i)er quart, you pay for your plants 
and have a good profit left. Price of 
plants: Dozen, 75c; 25, $1.00; 100, $3.50; 
1000, $30.00. 
Selected Large Plants—Dozen, $1.00; 
100, $5.00: 1000, $40.00. 
Francis (Per.)—Produced in the same 
lot of seedlings with Americus. The 
plants are very similar in growth and 
the layman could not pick them out if 
both varieties were growing in the same 
field. Put have the two varieties under 
cultivation in your garden and you will 
soon detect the difference. For my own 
use, I prefer the Francis to all other 
kinds of fall bearing strawberries. It is 
80 productive that you can hardly keep 
the blossoms off if you are after them 
every week. It produces so much bloom 
of its habits and I can make more money 
in growing the fruit than of any other 
variety. I am willing to wager that I 
can grow 10,000 quarts to the acre the 
same year the plants are set out. We 
have the largest stock in existence, but 
compared to other kinds, it is limited. 
Doz.. $1.50; 25, $2.50; 100, $8.00:1000, $50.00. 
Productive (Imp.)—This is the stocki¬ 
est growing plant of all the fall bearing 
kinds. It is enormously productive in 
June and bears a full fall crop. For best 
re.sults, we advise removing the blossoms 
hut once in May instead of cutting them 
off up to August 1st, for this variety. 
The past season we allowed them to fruit 
in June and they bore the largest crop 
we ever saw grow on strawberry plants. 
Without any other care, except hoeing 
out the weeds and keeping clean, they 
One Plant of Superb in 
and fruit that it is hard to make the 
young runners start, and therefore we 
get comparatively few new plants; and 
they will always be scarce and high 
priced. If the plants are allowed to fruit 
all they will, the young plants will be 
weakened and are liable to winter kill. 
The plants we have to sell are kept in 
vigorous growth by removing the blos¬ 
soms until after hard freezes, and are, 
therefore, much superior to the ordinary 
run of Francis. At their best, the plants 
of Francis are small and must be care¬ 
fully nursed. They succeed best on rich 
upland, such as stony loam. On clay 
they are nearly a failure, but do well on 
any light soil. The berries are very large, 
averaging larger than any fall be<iring 
strawl»erry we have fruited. The indi¬ 
vidual berries are irregular, but glossy 
and attractive, and of the most beautiful 
color. This variety Is a great success 
with us. I have made a careful study 
Fruit September, 1913. 
bore a full crop again this fall in Sep¬ 
tember and October. It must be prop¬ 
erly pollenated by planting Americus and 
Francis or Superb on each side of the 
row. The berries are medium to large 
in size, have the seeds on the outside and 
are good shippers. It is -of fair flavor. 
Doz., 75c; 25. $1.00; 100, $3.00; 1000, $25.00. 
Superb (Per.) —This variety makes 
beautiful plants and they are vigorous 
and healthy. It produces a limited num¬ 
ber of berries in the fall of the first year 
and if allowed to, would produce an 
enormous crop in the early summer of 
the following year. It would also bear a 
fair crop in the fall of the second year. 
There will be interested parties tell you 
that Superb is superior to other fall bear¬ 
ing strawberry kinds. It produces very 
large, even shaped, beautiful berries in 
the fall, but it would take acres to get a 
crate of them at any time in the fall of 
the first year. It bears a fine spring 
