Fall Strawberries 
(Continued from Inside Front Cover; 
Office of Curtis Publishing Company, 
Publishers of Country Gentleman, 
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 17, 1911. 
Dear Mr. Farmer: 
We beg to acknowledge receipt of your 
specimens of fall strawoerries—Francis and 
Americus. These we pronounce unusually 
good quality for late bearing berries. Please 
tell us more about them. 
Sincerely yours, 
TilE EDITORS. 
Office of Florist's Exchange, 
New York, Oct. 30, 1911. 
Mr. L. J. Farmer: 
Dear Sir—Unfortunately the strawberries 
did not reach us until Monday morning, but 
they came in very good shape, indeed, and 
we have had a photograph made of them. If 
same turns out well we will illustrate these 
two varieties in our publication, the Florists 
Exchange. Thanking you for drawing these 
strawberries to our attention, believe us, 
Very truly yours, 
THE FLORISTS EXCHANGE. 
Office of Green’s Fruit Grower, 
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1911. 
Dear Sir — Thanks for the beautiful straw¬ 
berries which were packed as I never saw 
strawberries packed before. Each berry was 
wrapped completely in cotton and all safely 
stored away in tiers in a quart berry basket. 
The strawberries came in perfect condition, 
without a bruise on any one berry. This 
method should be adopted by others who are 
sending Green’s Fruit Grower samples of 
fruit, which often come bruised or decayed, 
owing to careless packing. Remember that 
fruit must not rattle or be loose in the pack¬ 
age, for if it does wabble about in the pack¬ 
age you may be sure it will be bruised before 
it reaches our office. Remember this in your 
packing fruit for distant market. If you 
cannot pack the fruit so that it will not rat¬ 
tle in the package, you might as well throw 
the fruit away before it starts on its jour¬ 
ney, for it will not arrive in good condi¬ 
tio** in the distant market. 
These are fall bearing strawberries of 
which we have heard much lately. These ber¬ 
ries were of large size, fine color and good, 
fair quality. Mr. Farmer may be congra¬ 
tulated upon his success in growing fancy 
strawberries. Years ago I used to pick 
strawberries in October from the Capt. jack 
and James Vick strawberries, but not enough 
to offer in market. 
Yours very trulv, 
CIIAS. A. GREEN, Editor. 
Office of Orange Judd Company, 
New York, Oct. 30, 1911. 
Dear Friend Farmer: 
Your letter of the 26th inst. is extremely 
interesting to me. The box of strawberries 
were duly received. They came very solid 
and crisp and were delicious. This whole 
proposition of yours is one of immense inter¬ 
est to me. I am going to say a word about 
it in one of my Walks and Talks articles 
before very long. I thank you very kmdlv 
for your thoughtfulness, and the very friend¬ 
ly way you have taken to call my attention 
to the wonderful work you are doing. I am, 
Very sincerely yours, 
C. W. BURKETT. 
Editor American Agriculturist. 
Office of Farm and Home, 
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 30, 1911. 
Dear Sir— Yours of the 26th inst. duly re¬ 
ceived with basket of fall bearing strawber¬ 
ries, which came in excellent condition. I 
am very glad of the opportunity to test them 
and later shall have something to say about 
them in Farm and Home. I took pictures 
of them and if they are satisfactory, will 
make a cut to print. 
Very truly yours, 
EDWIN C. POWELL, 
Editor Farm and Home. 
Office of National Stockman and Farmer, 
Pittsburgh, Pa., Oct. 19, 1911. 
Dear Sir—Thank you for your favor of 
the 17th, which came yesterday. The straw¬ 
berries came in today in elegant shape. They 
are certainly fine in every way, and we ap¬ 
preciate the fact that you remembered us. 
We hope to reciprocate in a way that will be 
entirely satisfactory to you. This innovation 
in the strawberry business ought to be popu¬ 
lar, and we hope that you will reap the bene¬ 
fit of your patient work along this line. 
We never saw finer or more uniform ber¬ 
ries in the best summer season, and the 
flavor could not be improved upon. We 
thank you for every member of our staff, 
all of whom have sampled them and are 
ready to testify to their good points. With 
best wishes, 
Yours very truly, 
STOCKMAN-FARMER PUBLISHING CO., 
T. D. Harman, Business Manager. 
Office of Household Journal and Floral Life, 
Springfield, O., Oct. 30, 1911. 
Dear Sir — Your letter of Oct 26 reached 
us today, also the liberal sample package of 
your fall bearing strawberries. These are 
fine specimens, indeed, of this most luscious 
fruit. Please accept our thanks for the 
samples. We will be glad to publish a notice 
regarding these berries in our next issue, 
which will be for the month of December. 
Yours very truly, 
THE CENTRAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
Per W. A. Martin. 
Office of Doubleday, Page & Co., 
Garden City, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1911. 
Dear Sir — I beg to acknowledge, with 
thanks, the basket of strawberries which you 
sent me, and which arrived in good condi¬ 
tion. It is certainly remarkable that such 
strawberries can be grown in the fall, and I 
am much interested in having the facts. How 
do you think these fall strawberries compare 
with the June berries in flavor? 
Very truly yours, 
WALTER E. DYER, 
Managing Editor Country Life in America. 
Office of the Fruit Grower, 
St. Joseph, Mo.. Oct. 30, 1911. 
Dear Sir—The strawberries you sent us 
with your letter of Oct. 20th arrived this 
morning in the finest kind of shape. We 
fixed these berries up nicely and got a good 
photograph, which we want to use in one of 
our early issues with a few notes about these 
berries. 
We hope you will fix up another nice little 
story about these for our Small Fruits num¬ 
ber next March. With best wishes, we are, 
Yours very truly, 
E. II. FAVOR, Associate Editor. 
