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Remember that We Give ‘‘Farmer on the Strawberry” 
plants as is possible. Most orders are filled in March, April and May. Fall 
orders in October and November. We, however, accept and fill occasional 
orders any month of the year. We ship transplanted strawberry and other 
plants in June and July with perfect success. 
Our Location and Facilities. 
We live in Oswego County, the home of the strawberry. Plants grown in 
this cool climate are superior to those grown further south. Our berries are 
justly famous and in their season bring the highest market prices in all the 
large Eastern markets, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh 
and even in Chicago. 
Our farm, office and packing houses are located one mile south of Pulaski, 
which is a thriving town of 2,000 inhabitants, with all the modern improve¬ 
ments, such as city water, electric lights, natural gas and paved streets. 
Salmon River, which runs through the town, is being harnessed by the Nnagara 
Power Company, and it will be but a short time before electricity, generated 
along this river, will be used to drive electric cars and machinery in many 
parts of the State. Pulaski is growing by leaps and bounds and will soon 
become a city. We have the Bell telephone, Western Union and Postal tele¬ 
graphs, New York Central Railroad and American Express. Oswego is twenty- 
five miles west and Syracuse thirty-eight miles south of us. We do business 
with the Pulaski National Bank. Address all correspondence to L. J. Farmer, 
Pulaski, Oswego County, N. Y. 
Strawberries 
It is impossible in a catalogue, to give much information about the cul¬ 
ture of berries, but my book on strawberry culture (price 25c) 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 corrola. The varieties that 
have imperfect blooms lack stamens. Stamens are the male organs and pis¬ 
tils the female organs of the blooms. Thus a berry that has stamens is 
often called a “staminate” or perfect flow¬ 
ered. and one that 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 varieties, 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 variety. The closer together 
the two sexes of blossoms are intermingled, the better will be the results. If 
we plant a 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. 
PorftM't or 
Staminate 
Imperfect or 
Pistillate 
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 acre of strawberries as is usually produced from ten acres of other crops. 
I have often said I would as lief have the proceeds from an acre of strawberries 
as from ten cows. There are some crops grown by farmers that cannot pos¬ 
sibly give one a pleasant feeling when he thinks of what they are finally made 
into. The tobacco grower may make as much money as the strawberry 
grower, but his product does not benefit the consumer, and he can think of 
nothing but the commercial side of the question, while the strawberry grower 
