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We Advise Placing Your Order Early. 
transplanted plants for June and July planting. For these, we must charge 
50% more than regular catalogue rates. Because of the fact that many young 
plants and runners are wasted in digging plants from the fields in August and 
September, we make a charge of one-half additional or 50% more for orders 
filled at this time, than in the regular shipping season. Our season is about 
the latest in the United States and plants remain dormant and in condition to 
ship in. spring long after other localities are well advanced. Snow often falls 
here May 1st. County the Home of the Strawberry, 
We live in Oswego County, which is the banner county of New York State 
for growing strawberries, berries as well as plants. The climate is cool and 
invigorating. It abounds with numerous summer resorts of national reputation. 
Our plants are healthy and heavy rooted, much more so than those grown in 
warmer climates. Berries from our county are famous in all the leading 
markets of the East—Boston, New' York, Philadelphia and other cities. 
Location and Facilities. 
Our farm residence, office and packing house are located one mile south of 
Pulaski, which is a thriving village of nearly 2,500 inhabitants. Pulaski has 
all the modern improvements, such as electric lights, natural gas, city w'ater 
and paved streets. Salmon river, which passes through the town, has been 
harnessed by the Niagara Power Co. Immense dams and tunnels have been 
constructed. Electricity to drive machinery, street cars, and for electric lights, 
will soon be generated here and distributed through wires strung on immense 
towers to different parts of the State. We expect to see Pulaski grow by leaps 
and bounds. We have the Bell Telephone, Western Union and Postal Tele- 
praphs, the New York Central R. R. and American Express. Osw'ego is 25 
miles w'est and Syracuse 38 miles south of us. We do business with the 
Pulaski National Bank. 
Address all letters and orders to L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, Oswego Co., N. Y. 
Strawberries 
It is impossible in a catalogue to give much information about the culture 
of berries, but my book on straw'berry culture (price 50c) will give full and 
explicit directions. Strawberry plants produce two kinds of blossoms—the 
perfect and the imperfect The perfect blossoms have all the four parts of a 
flower—the stamens, pistils, calyx and corolla. The varieties that have imper¬ 
fect blooms lack stamens. Stamens are the male organs and pistils the 
female organs of the blooms. Thus a berry that has stamens is often called a 
'“staminate” or perfect flowered, and one 
Ijthat lacks stamens but has pistils is called 
a “pistillate” or imperfect flowered variety. 
Perfect flowered varieties can be planted 
alone and will bear good crops of berries, 
but pistillates or imperfect flowered varie¬ 
ties will not bear good berries when planted 
alone. They must have the companionship 
[of a staminate or perfect flowered variety in 
order to produce perfect fruit. For practical 
[results it is best to have them not over 15 
feet apart. The two kinds may be mixed in 
the rows, or alternate rows planted of each 
^jVariety. The closer together the two sexes 
of blossoms are intermingled, the better will be the results, 
patch of pure Sample, Warfield or Crescents the fruit will be seedy and mostly 
nubbins, but if Champion is planted near Sample, and Dunlap near Warfield and 
Crescent, the quantity and quality of fruit produced from these varieties will 
be remarkable. Varieties in this catalogue marked “per” are perfect in flower, 
and those marked “imp” are imperfect in flower. 
BRIEF CULTURAL DIRECTIONS 
There Is no farm crop more profitable than strawberries, no fruit more 
attractive or more sought for in market. You can get as much money from one 
Perfect or 
Staminate 
Imperfect or 
Pistillate 
If we plant a 
