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We Have Grown Strawberries for Thirty Years. 
If the blossoms are picked once in the | 
spring, the plants will bear a fair crop ' 
in the fall of the first or second year. I 
If the plants are allowed to bear a i 
crop in the regular fruiting season in’ 
.June, it will be of immense proportions i 
and the fruit will be very attractive, 
and pleasing. The color is very dark, 
glossy and attractive and the flesh is 
firm and a good shipper. There is no 
variety in existence Superior to this 
for canning. The plants are inclined : 
to bush up more than any other’ 
variety, but it produces a goodly' 
(luantity of runners and new iilants. i 
Twenty-five for 50c: 100, $1.50; 1.000, | 
$ 10 . 00 . ; 
Mixed Plants. -We have a quantity 
of “Autumn” plants fertilized with 
other varieties, all mixed up so that 
they will bear a good fall crop, that 
we will sell for the following prices: 
Twenty-five for 75c: 100, $2.50; 1,000. 
$ 20 . 00 . 
Fall Bearing Strawberry Seeds. —We 
have several pounds of strawberry 
seeds saved from selected berries of 
"Productive” and "Autumn,” fertilized 
with "Francis,” "Americus,” "Superb” 
and "Progressive.” These seeds, if 
carefully planted, will grow, and every 
seed that grows, will produce a new 
variety. It may be valuable and it may 
not be, but the parentage is of the 
best. Price, 25c per packet, 3 packets 
50c. 
Strawberries in corn cutting time. 
The Fall Bearing Strawberries—An Essay 
By Tj. J. Farmer. 
Many who receive this catalogue will hear of fall bearing strawberries for 
the first time. In this article we are going to tell you what we know about 
them in as few words as possible. To those who have been getting out cata¬ 
logues for the past few years, or reading the numerous articles and books we 
have written on the subject, this article may seem simple, but we find people 
every day who need to have the story told to them and so we are going to 
tell it again. 
To those who have never before heard of fall bearing strawberries, the 
idea is almost as hard to comprehend as if they were told of apples or pears 
and peaches that bore in the spring. In one of the testimonials printed in 
this catalogue, it tells of an old man who stood and looked for a long time at 
some of these berries shown before a store and who afterwards told the 
storekeeper that he did not believe that there was such a thing as fall straw¬ 
berries. It reminds me of the story of the boy and the giraffe The boy had 
