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that this variety has attained its greatest 
popularity. It bears some berries the fall 
of the first year and a great quantity of 
them in the fall of the second year, but 
they are inferior in size, flavor and appear¬ 
ance to its spring crop. The spring ciop of 
Productive is simply marvellous. The vines 
arc literally loaded with berries which are of 
good size and of fine appearance. Being a 
pistillate, it stands more frost in blossoming 
time than staminate varieties and last year 
it bore an immense crop of fruit in June 
which sold for good prices, when other hinds 
of strawberries were near a failure. Dozen, 
35c; 25 for 50c; 100, $1.50; 1,000, $10.00. 
Iowa (Per.)—25 for 75c; 100, $2.50. 
Autumn (Imp.)— 2,5 for 75c; 100, $2.50. 
Pan American (Per.) —12 for $1.00; 25 for 
$1.50; 100, $5.00. 
Superb (Per.)—The plants of the Superb 
ire almost ideal growers. The runners arc 
large, long, and produce plants in great 
abundance the first year. The yield of fruit 
will not be large unless most of these runners 
are removed as fast as they appear. The 
second year, the runners do not bother and. 
there will be a large yield of fruit anyway. 
For best results, we advise that the runners 
of Superb be kept cut and the plants grown 
in hills. The berries are large, dark red, 
glossy and the most beautiful of all the fall 
bearing varieties. This year our plants were 
set about June 20th and did not make much 
run because it came on very dry. As a re¬ 
sult, the crop of fruit was fine and the 
berries were very large. I had some very 
fine large specimens which I used to good 
advantage at expositions. I always prefer 
Superb to show off. The Superb is not of 
high flavor, but I prefer it to Progressive. 
The Superb is a seedling grown by Samuel 
Cooper of Cattaraugus County, N. Y. 12 for 
75c; 25 for $1.25; 100 for $3; 1,000 for $20. 
Productive (Imp.)—A seedling raised by 
Mr. Cooper. It is not as a fall bearing kind 
Amcricus. 
Five Years’ Experience with Fall-Bearing Strawberries 
I am surprised that there arc so many 
people who do not understand about fall 
bearing strawberries, especially am I sur¬ 
prised that there are those who do not be¬ 
lieve that there is such a thing in existence. 
This is why it seems necessary for me year 
after year to explain about them in my an¬ 
nual catalogue. Those who do understand 
about them and get tired by reading over 
and over again the same thing in these pages, 
oan just pass by the discussion this year. 
The first fall bearing strawberry of Ameri¬ 
can origin was originated or rather discovered 
by Samuel Cooper of Western N. Y. in 1898. 
He found one plant of the old Bismarck 
strawberry with eleven runners. These were 
all bearing fruit in November. The plants 
were transferred to his garden and the 
characteristic of fruiting in the fall was re¬ 
tained from year to year. This plant was 
afterwards named the Pan American. Seeds 
of the Pan American were sown by Mr. 
Cooper and the Autumn, a pistillate variety, 
was produced. With the Autumn as a par¬ 
ent, numerous seedlings were produced by 
Mr. Cooper. His most famous seedling is 
Superb. 
In 1904, Mr. Harlow Ttockhlll of Iowa 
crossed Pan American blossoms with pollen 
from the Louis Gauthier, a French variety, 
