Strawberries and the Best Flavored of All Strawberries. 
11 
Fall Bearing Varieties 
The following varieties blossom! 
from May until December in this 
locality. They would bear large crops ; 
in June and small crops in the fall, if: 
unmolested. By picking the early, 
blossoms up to as late as August 1st, | 
we get large crops of fruit in Septem-; 
ber, October and early . November. ■ 
Picking the blossoms is some work, 
but nothing compared to the extra 
prices received for the fruit at this 
late and unusual date. 
Americus (Per.)—This variety is, all 
things considered, the best variety for 
the average person to grow of all the 
fall bearing kinds I have tested. It is 
plants as Bubach under same condi¬ 
tions. 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 of very rich, strong soil, 
they run large and fine, in fact, the 
largest single specimens of any fall 
variety are picked from Americus on 
clay soils. The flavor is fine, the 
finest of all the fall bearing straw¬ 
berries and superior to Marshall in 
June. A shortcake made of Americus 
in August or September is the most 
H;i8ki*l of “AmoHcus” Fall Bearing Strawberry. Photographod Ottobor M, Pill. 
a seedling of Pan American crossed 
with Louis Gauthier. The seeds were 
sown in window frames 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 
attractive dish you could imagine. 
Realizing the great value of this 
variety, we have increased our stock 
as rapidly as possible and now offer 
the largest and finest stock of Amer¬ 
icus 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 ]>roduce 80 to 100 
