JAMES J. II. GREGORY & SON'S RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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SMHLL FRUITS. 
Prices, per mail, postpaid, or express at purchaser’s expense, tfo discount. 
V^Will our friends, if possible, kindly send in their orders for these, except Strawberries (which please see), by April 10 ? 
Timbrell Strawberry 
STRAWBERRIES. 
For hill culture, plant fifteen by fifteen inches; for matted growth, plant rows three feet apart, 
and plant one foot apart in the row. We can supply, in August, potted plants of those marked with 
a * at 50 cts. per doz., $2.50 per 100; per express or freight at purchaser’s expense. Those marked 
with “ P ” are pistillate varieties, needing staminate sorts near them. Shipping season from October 
1 to May 15, except when the ground is frozen. 
Few varieties do equally well in all localities or on all soil. These we have selected are not only in 
the first class because of their general excellence, but they come nearest to doing well in all localities 
and on all soil, according to the testimony of every Agricultural Experimental Station, and of the 
largest strawberry growers, which we can indorse in part from our own observation and experience. 
Timbrell. (P.) This new strawberry has created a sensation among prominent horti¬ 
culturists. The introducer claims that it is not only the best of all varieties, but is 
also the most profitable to raise either for the market or for home use. This reads ex¬ 
travagantly, but men of such weight as E. S. Carman, editor of Rural New-Yorker , says 
the same, and adds: “ Were I confined to one variety, it would be the Timbrell.” Foliage 
very rank and vigorous; fruit round and generally symmetrical; size extra large, very 
solid, and will bear shipment well; quality superb, “ better than any strawberry in culti¬ 
vation,” says Mr. Carman. A magnificent late variety. Per dozen, per mail, postpaid, 
$2.00; per 100, $10.00; per 100 per express, $9.80. 
The Marshall. This is the big strawberry that received two first and three second prizes 
in 1892 and 1893, at the great annual exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 
It is reported by the committee as being of “ large size, good form, dark color, and 
good quality; a promising new and distinct variety.” Color, a very dark red, extending 
through the berry. Three thousand quarts were picked from one third of an acre in 
1892. Berries enormous in size, fourteen filling a basket. Of fine flavor and a good keeper. 
Plants extra vigorous, standing from twepty to twenty-two inches in height. Blossom, 
perfect. We sell at price made by the originator. Per doz., postpaid, $3.00. 
Header. A Massachusetts seedling. The plants are vigorous and excellent croppers. They bed well. The berries are extra large, conical 
in form, and of a deep scarlet color, coloring all over at once. Quality good. A berry to take the eye and satisfy the palate. Per doz., 
per mail, 50 cts.; per 100, $2.00; per 100, per express, $1.80. 
Van Dieman. A most promising sort, ranked among the very best of the newer kinds. It is spoken highly of by the various experimental 
stations that have tested it. A vigorous grower, with strong and healthy foliage, it has proved remarkably productive under favorable 
circumstances. Berries conical, uniform, and regular; color, a deep glossy scarlet; firm in texture and of good quality. Early. Per doz., 
per mail, 50 cts..; per 100, $2.00; per 100, per express, $1.80. 
The Martha. (P.) Among the great number of varieties tested in 1892 at the experimental station of the Agricultural College at Amherst, 
Mass, (we think over one hundred kinds), they speak of the Martha as “one of the most noticeable varieties in the plots. Medium in 
size, wonderfully productive, of good color and quality.” Per doz., per mail, 50 cts.; per 100, $2.00; per 100 per express, $1.80. 
♦Parker Earle. Speaking from our own experience, we would rank this as the one strawberry for profit, for family use, or a near market. 
On our grounds, a rich old garden, with manure at the rate of eight cords to the acre, the yield on a plat of one hundred and fifty square 
feet was sixty-one quarts, which, after allowing one fourth of the land for paths, would leave over four hundred bushels to the acre. 
Plant very robust; berries large and very uniform in size, oblong in shape, of a glossy crimson color, of excellent quality but not very 
firm. It has yielded enormous crops, from Texas to Michigan. Bisexual, and therefore self-fertilizing. Price, by mail, postpaid, per 
doz., 40 cts.; per 100, $1.20; by ex., per 100, $1.00; 1,000, $7.00. 
♦Beverly. This is a seedling of the well-known Miner’s Prolific, and may be called an improved Miner. Plants vigorous, foliage healthy, 
blossoms staminate, berries large, mostly conical; dark glossy crimson in color; texture firm, and quality excellent. Mr. George F. 
Beede, the well-known strawberry grower of Fremont, N. H., writes : “Among sixty varieties I am testing, for healthy foliage, vigorous 
growth, and rapid increase of plant the Beverly was unsurpassed. I am confident it is a great acquisition to both our market and home 
list of strawberries.” Evidently a first-class berry under high cultivation. Price, bv mail, postpaid, per doz., 50 cts.; per 100, $1.50; by 
ex., 100, $1.30; 1,000, $12.00. " ’ 
♦Beder Wood. Of this fine variety Mr. Mathew Crawford, of Ohio, says : “ This is, in my opinion, the best early variety ever introduced, 
either for home use or market. The plant is faultless, and enormously productive. No rust yet. Fruit large, of fine form and color, 
moderately firm, and of good quality.” Price, by mail, postpaid, per doz., 35 cts.; per 100, $1.10; by ex., per 100, 90 cts.; 1,000, $6.00. 
♦Lovett’s Early. This is probably a cross between the Crescent and the Wilson, being larger than either, as prolific, excelling each of 
its parents in some good characteristics. The berries are of good size, of the brightest crimson, and excel all but the Wilson in firmness 
of flesh. Quality very superior. The plants are very healthy and vigorous, and bisexual, and therefore self-fertilizing. It has been ex¬ 
tensively tested at the Experimental Stations; they class it as an excellent new variety. Price, 
by mail, postpaid, per doz., 35 cts.; per 100, $1.10; by ex., 100, 90 cts.; 1,000, $6.00. 
♦Early Michael. (New.) The best first early variety, of beautiful color; a good shipper; 
valuable market variety. Vines stout and vigorous. Price, by mail, per doz., 35 cts.; per 
100,$1.10; by ex., per 100, 90 cts.; by ex., per 1,000, $5.00. 
♦Haverland. (P.) (New.) Exceedingly productive, fruit large and fine, color bright crimson ; 
plant vigorous. Medium early. First-rate for market. Price, by mail, 30 cts.; per 100, $1.00; 
by ex., per 100, 80 cts.; by ex., per 1,000, $4.00. ’ ’ 
♦Warfield. (No. 2.) (P.) (New.) An early market sort, rivalling the Crescent in yield, and 
exceeding it in size*, beauty, and firmness. Berry large, beautiful; color, dark red. A good 
shipper. Price, by mail, per doz., 30 cts.; 100, $1.00; by ex., per 100, 80 cts.; per 1,000, $4.00. 
Gandy. (New.) Says Lovett: “This is the ideal late berry. Berries of mammoth uniform size 
and shape, very showy and of superior quality.” Price, by mail, per doz., 30 cts.; per 100, 
$1.00; by ex., per 100, 80 cts.; by ex., per 1,000, $4.00. 
♦Bubach. (No. 5.) (P.) (New.) Wonderful in vigor of plant and yield of fruit. Not a 
shipping berry, but simply A 1 for family use. Second earlv. Price, by mail, per doz., 30 cts.; 
per 100, $1.00; by ex., per 100, 80 cts.; by ex., per 1,000, $4.00. 
Crescent Seedling, ♦Sharpless, Wilson’s Albany. Standard sorts, 
cts.; per 100, $1.00; per ex., per 100, 80 cts.; per 1,000, $4.00. 
DEWBERRIES. 
Hucretia Dewberry. This is decidedly the best of all the dewberries, or low-running black¬ 
berries. It is a superb fruit; melting, and of a delicious quality. The plant is entirely hardy 
everywhere, a healthy, strong grower, and exceedingly productive. Price, by mail, one, 12 cts-.; 
by mail, per doz., 85 cts.; by ex., per doz., 70 cts.; by ex., per 100, $2.25. 
Price, per mail, per doz., 30 
Lucretia Dewberry. 
