Testimonials We Receive; We Have Thousands of Them. 
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size. The color of the fruit is fine, but 
they are not as glossy as Francis. The 
fruit is borne freely on the young run¬ 
ner plants as well as the parents. This 
variety does best when grown in 
matted raws, allowing all runners to 
grow and bear fruit. If I were to pick 
the best kind for the average grower, I 
should select Americus. The plants do 
not crown up and grow bushy quite as 
much as Francis. The berries are pro¬ 
duced well out away from the foliage. 
Doz., $2.50; 25 for $5.00; 100 for $20.00. 
for the largest specimens and of the 
best quality, it would be necessary to 
remove a large proportion of the blos¬ 
soms or fruit stems. This variety has 
very prominent seeds, is very firm and 
a good shipper. The berries are borne 
only on the parent plants, the young 
runner plants hardly ever bearing fruit. 
It is especially adapted for producing 
the three crops in two years. For best 
results, we would keep them in hills and 
remove only one set of blossoms. Mr. 
Productive (Imp.)—This is the 
strongest growing plant of all the fall 
bearing strawberries I have ever seen. 
It is a seedling of the Autumn and Pan 
American, produced by Samuel Cooper. 
The plants are very large and heavy- 
rooted, producing a phenomenal crop 
of medium to large fruits. The young 
plants are produced in good quantities. 
The leaves are large, thick, leathery 
and glossy. The berries literally lay 
about the plants in heaps and piles. The 
size and quality is determined by the 
quantity produced. If we should seek 
Cooper says that on the average they 
will bear a pint of fruit to each plant 
the first fall, a quart to each plant in 
the following spring, and if the leaves 
are mown off after the spring crop they 
will bear another pint the second fall. 
To do this the plants must be grown in 
hills, with all runners cut off. Suppose 
the plants were set 1x3 feet apart. 
There would be 14,520 plants to the 
acre, and if each plant bore two quarts 
in the two years this would amount to 
29,040 quarts to the acre in two years. 
Doz., $2.50; 25 for $5.00; 100 for $20.00. 
