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of any variety we know, which much accounts for its great success under any 
and all conditions. It is a first class berry and a good variety, with a long 
fruiting season. 
Marion County, Indiana, March 10, 1905. 
Those plants I got of you did finely. I am much pleased with Parsons Beauty, 
hence the enclosed order. Spring of 1903 I sent to - for 500 “Pedigree” plants. They 
were very small and they made a thick matted row, but looked more like “scrub” than 
blooded stock. The crop was barely worth picking. Last spring I reset some of the 
plants and they do not look like the same variety, they are so much larger and thrifty. 
As long as your plants do as well as they have, you can count on my orders. 
Very truly yours, F. C. McCURDY. 
Oom Paul 
(Perfect.) Large, healthy plants, making good rows for fruit¬ 
ing. Fruit large, rather long, dark red on the outside and red 
throughout when fully ripe. The flesh is quite firm and of good quality. The 
introducer says: 
Oom Paul is the largest strawberry ever fruited on our plant farm. Six berries 
filled a quart box. Stupendous in size and delicious in flavor; nice shape, elegant color; 
shipping rhe best and very productive. 
The Experiment Station at Wooster, Ohio, reports: 
A fine large berry of good quality, and worthy of trial for home use or market. 
a /% • (Imperfect.) Growing plants of this variety show a peculiar bright 
IVlane flush of red at the base of leaf stems and joining with the crown, as 
if to signal business for the future, and it is a business berry. Customers write 
in praise of the Marie, and it is a favorite with us. We have never heard a bad 
report of it. The fruit is large, round as a ball, uniform in size and shape as 
Gandy and about the same color. As we have sometimes written a customer, 
just imagine a crate full of little oranges, and you have the Marie, only a deeper 
richer color. It is a handsome berry, especially when crated, fairly firm and 
quite tart until fully ripe. Late in the season it is especially rich. A heavy 
cropper and reliable. Season medium to quite late. 
The Marie is distinct from all other varieties. The fruit of Marie and 
Springdale Beauty look much alike, but the latter is an early berry with perfect 
bloom and more abundant plant growth. We grow Springdale alongside of 
Marie with Dunlap and Uncle Jim close by. 
Tama County, Iowa, November 25, 1904. 
Dear Sir: —Those Marie and Springdale Beauty you sent me as a present were 
extra fine last year. Everyone seems to think Marie the nicest berry they ever saw. 
The yield was heavy. Uncle Jim was extra fine. I have ordered $14.00 worth of 
plants. I expect to make a record for the other fellows around here to beat. They 
claim that home grown plants are as good or better, but my berries sell 25 to 40 cents 
more per crate. 
Later, April 15, 1905. 
C. C. JUDGE. 
T received the plants to-day all right. 
q • 1 j n , (Perfect.) The Springdale Beauty is a good grower 
5pnngUcU6 Deauty and abundant bearer. It ripens early and the fruit 
is large, firm and of high quality. They resemble the Marie in appearance and 
the two sorts make a good team. The berries hold out large to the end of its 
(Imperfect.) A good grower and bearer of good medium 
sized bright red berries; firm and of good quality. Midseason 
(Perfect.) Fruit large, nearly round, dark rich red color, firm and 
the highest quality. We think more of the Pennell every year. It 
always bears abundantly, and is one of the varieties to which we direct our 
friends who visit us in fruiting when they want something of extra quality. 
If you have discriminating customers, try them with the Pennell. A good 
all season berry that will please the most exacting. 
season. 
Kansas 
to late. 
Pennell 
