Proof and sure to bear a crop of fruit every year. 
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One plant of Super!) Strawberry, photographed Sept. 7th, 1913. 
we had growing on the place. The fall 
bearing kinds bear fruit when others fail. Last 
year (1913) we had very severe frosts in blos¬ 
soming time and most strawberries were a 
failure due to this. The fall bearing kinds 
bore a full crop in the spring although some¬ 
what later than usual. It will be seen that if 
the blossoms are frozen off. another set will 
develop and you will get fruit sometime 
dining the season anyway. This would be 
a distinct advantage in localities very sub¬ 
ject to late spring frosts. I often get letters 
from parties way up in the mountains of 
Colorado and other places saying that it is 
next to impossible for them to get straw¬ 
berries to fruit on account of the late spring 
frosts. With the fall bearing kinds, you 
can get a crop, provided you have four or 
five weeks between the periods of frost. It 
Superb. 
may not be necessary to have even as long 
a time as this, for strawberries are only 
destroyed when the blossom is in that 
delicate stage soon after opening. After 
the berry is set and partly developed, it 
will stand quite a frost. 
One of the great points in favor of fall 
bearing strawberries is their exhibition 
value. When placed on exhibition at fairs 
or horticultural shows in the fall, they 
attract the greatest attention. People go 
right by the plates of apples, pears, peaches 
and other fruits to take a good look at the 
strawberries shown at such an unseemly 
time. I have exhibited fall bearing straw¬ 
berries at the N. Y. State Fair in Syracuse 
for four seasons. Every succeeding year 
there seems to be more interest shown. The 
past fall (September) I showed two barrels 
with plants growing from their sides, besides 
plates of fruit and also berries in crates 
and baskets. One of the barrels, filled with 
plants of the Superb variety, is shown on 
the back cover of this catalogue. We had 
a crowd around our displey of fall bearing 
strawberries continuously and the questions 
that were asked were too numerous to men¬ 
tion. 
The past season was the most strenuous 
we have ever had, so far as the elements 
was concerned. It was extremely dry and 
almost impossible to make the plants throw 
runners even with the best of care and fer¬ 
tilizing. We did not pick as many berries 
as in 1913, due, not to the drouth, but the 
white grubs which got into our patches of 
fall bearing berries and destroyed several 
acres of them. The demand for fruit was 
far beyond our ability to supply and we did 
not sell a quart for less than 23 cents. 
We are quite confident that the fall bear¬ 
ing strawberry proposition is a good one for 
the person who will take hold of it in tell i 
