and In General Farming Is Yours for the Asking. 
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veiT large berries. It is a beautiful red 
berry with a bright green calyx, which 
adds greatly to its beauty and market 
value. Flavor is one of the best: a per¬ 
fect table and canning berry, and one of 
the very best shipping varieties. Has a 
perfect flowered blossom, and is a 
strong fertilizer. 
The Joe Johnson will without doubt 
become the leading late berry as soon as 
enough plants can be grown to get it well 
introduced. Twenty-five for^l.OO; 100, 
$3.00. 
Fall Bearing Varieties 
The following varieties blossom 
from May until December in this 
ling of Pan-American crossed with 
Louis Gauthier. The seeds were sown 
in a window frame in February, 1905, 
and in August of that year.ripe berries 
were picked from the young plants. I 
procured some plants in May. 1910, and 
have had them under test ever since. 
The Americus will produce about the 
same number of plants as Bubach under 
same conditions. It is not a large plant 
maker and must be forced to get a big 
run. The plants are very healthy and 
will stand hot, dry weather and go 
through when common varieties succumb. 
On sandy, light soils or even on stony 
loam, the berries are inclined to be small 
to medium size. On clay and other kinds 
Basket of “Americus'^ Fall Bearing Strawberry. Photographed October 14, 1911. 
locality. They would bear large crops 
in June and small crops in the fall, if 
unmolested. By picking the early blos¬ 
soms up to as late as August 1st, we 
get large crops of fruit in September, 
October and early November. Picking 
the blossoms is some work, but noth¬ 
ing compared to the extra prices re¬ 
ceived for the fruit at this late and 
unusual date. 
Americus (Per.)—This variety is, all 
things considered, the best variety for 
tile average person to grow of all the fall 
bearing kinds I have tested. It is a seed- 
i of very rich, strong soil, they run large 
I and fine, in fact, the largest single speci¬ 
mens of any fall variety are picked from 
Americus on clay soils. The flavor is 
fine, the finest of all the fall bearing 
strawberries and superior to Marshall in 
June. A shortcake made of Americus in 
August or September is the most at¬ 
tractive dish you could Imagine. Realiz¬ 
ing the great value of this variety, we 
have increased our stock as rapidly as 
possible and now offer the largest and 
finest stock of Americus in the world. 
We have reduced the price so any one 
can afford to buy them. One hundred 
plants set In April or May should produce 
80 to 100 quarts of berries in the fall of 
