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We Will Give the Fruit Grower and Farmer, Price 
(luarts of berries in the fall of the j 
same year. If you can sell them at j 
25c per quart, you pay for your plants: 
and have a good profit left. Price of, 
plants: Dozen, $1.50; 100, ' $10.00; 
1,000, $75.00. 
Francis (Per.) — Produced in the 
same lot of seedlings with Americus. 
The plants are very similar in growth 
and the layman could not pick them 
out if both varieties were growing in 
the same field. But have the two 
varieties under cultivation in your 
garden and you will soon detect the 
difference. For my own use, I prefer 
the Francis to all other kinds of fall 
bearing strawberries. It is so pro¬ 
ductive that you can hardly keep the 
blossoms off if you are after them 
»n’ery week. It. produces so much bloom 
and fruit that it is liard to make the 
Kour quarts of Superb and Progressive pre¬ 
sented to Oscar Strauss. 
young runners start, and therefore we 
get comparatively few new plants; and 
they will always be scarce and, high 
priced. If the plants are allowed to 
fruit all they will, the young plants 
will be weakened and are liable to 
winter kill. The plants we have to 
sell are kept in vigorous growth by re¬ 
moving the blossoms until after hard 
freezes, and are therefore much su¬ 
perior to the ordinary run of Francis. 
At their best, the plants of Francis 
are small and must be carefully 
nursed. They succeed best on rich up¬ 
land, such as stony loam. On clay 
they are nearly a failure, but do well 
on any light soil. The berries are 
very large, averaging larger than any 
fall bearing strawberry we have 
fruited. The individtial berries are Ir¬ 
regular, but glossy and attractive, and 
of the most beautiful color. This 
variety is a great success with us. I 
have made a careful study of its 
habits and I can make more money in 
growing the fruit than of any other 
variety. I am willing to wager that I 
can grow 10,000 quarts to the acre the 
same year the plants are set out. AVe 
have the largest stock in existence, 
but compared to other kinds, it is 
limited. Dozen, $2.00; 100, $15.00; 
1,000, $125.00. 
Productive (Imp.)—This is the stock¬ 
iest growing plant of all the fall bear¬ 
ing kinds. It is enornfbusly productive 
in June and bears a full fall crop. For 
best results, we advise removing the 
blossoms but once in May instead of 
cutting them off up to August Ist, for 
this variety. The past season we 
allowed them to fruit in June and they 
bore the largest crop we ever saw 
grow on strawberry plants. Without 
any other care, except hoeing out the 
weeds and keeping clean, they bore a 
full crop again this fall in September 
and October. It must be properly 
pollenated by planting Americus and 
Francis or Superb on each side of the 
row. The berries are medium to large 
in size, have the seeds on the outside 
and are good shippers. It is of fair 
flavor. Dozen, $1.50; 100, $10.00; 1,000, 
$75.00. 
Superb (Per.)—This variety makes 
beautiful plants and they are vigorous 
and healthy. It produces a limited 
number of berries in the fall of the 
first year and if allowed to, would pro¬ 
duce an enormous crop in the early 
summer of the following year. It 
would also bear a fair crop in the fall 
of the second year. There will be in¬ 
terested parties tell you that Superb 
is superior to other fall bearing straw¬ 
berry kinds. It produces very large, 
even shaped, beautiful berries in the 
fall, but it would take acres to get a 
crate of them at any time in the fall 
of the first year. It bears a fine spring 
crop, however, and a good average 
crop in the fall of the second year. 
We had them beside the "Progressive” 
this year and under the same condi¬ 
tions, it was hard to get a quart to the 
row when the "Progressives” were 
picking 12 to 16 quarts to the-row at 
a picking. When we got this variety 
from the originator they were badly 
mixed w'lth an inferior kind and we 
have now got them sorted out, so what 
plants we offer are true and unmixed. 
