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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
in the spring to dig plants from with profit, although we did dig several thous¬ 
and here later in the season in order to finish out a still larger planting of our 
own of this most popular variety, for plants and fruit in 1905. We have largely 
increased our planting of this variety each spring from the first fruiting and had 
a much large stock of it last spring than of any other sort, but with the greater 
demand for plants as it becomes better known, we have never been able to fully 
supply two or three city dealers with the fruit even at advanced prices over the 
best local stock in their section, while it is rapidly taking first place as a canner 
and is otherwise in such demand at home and abroad that we feel we cannot have 
too many left to fruit. The yield was 300 bushels per acre, 524 bushels being 
shipped, some of it 300 miles, arriving in prime condition, the balance selling on 
the grounds, though all of it was fancy shipping stock. 
These Dunlaps were not grown according to the writer’s ideal, but to demon¬ 
strate what we have been saying for two or three years. That the variety is not 
only one of the finest and most profitable for intensive cultivation, but is also one 
of the most reliable and satisfactory with ordinary care and attention, such as 
we gave them in this case, and such as the average busy farmer would be able to 
give them with little effort. No manure or fertilizer was used in growing the 
crop and none had been applied to this soil for several years, six or seven years 
at least. The plants were set in check rows four feet apart and two feet apare 
in the row, to admit of horse cultivation both ways for a time, and one way after¬ 
ward, when they were allowed to run and root at will, forming thickly matted 
rows. Yet there were few if any blanks each plant sending up one fruiting stem 
as a dule, but more wherever there happened to be more space. There were no 
buttons from improper fertilization, no sun- scalded barries fFO mlack of foliage 
or rotten berries from lying on the ground, no li le berries to be culled out from 
strictly fancy stock, but a sizeable and even grade averaging throughout the sea¬ 
son as large as our illustration, and beauties every one. We may say, after 
picking hundreds of bushels of this variety, from the first fruiting to the present 
time, that none of us has ever found a single berry to be culled out, unless it 
had been overlooked and got too ripe for shipping, that it has always taken first 
place among the finest berries on the market wherever we have shipped it, except 
a year ago in competition with our Uncle Jims, bue we had no Uncle Jims to 
fruit last season, having to buy instead several thousand plants of former cus¬ 
tomers to finish out our setting. 
The crescent has been called the poor mans berry, because it has a tough 
hardy plant, and the ability to take care of itself, making a good row and a 
crop with very little help from the grower. Such is the Dunlap plant intensified, 
but In beauty, size and quality of fruit there is no comparison between the two, 
in ordinary matted rows, or with the higher culture. We are not advocating or¬ 
dinary methods, even for the Dunlap, except to interest our friends—the busy 
farmers, for their benefit, to show them what may be done with such a good 
all around variety, how fine the fruit is, how cheaply and with what little effort 
it may be produced. The commercial grower fully understands that there is no 
crop that will pay so well for extra care and attention as strawberries. The 
finest fruit on the market, the greater demand, the quicker sales and the larger 
profits for something extra fine. The importance of having a supply, each box, 
each crate, each shipment just the same as the consignment that preceeded it, 
a staple product now days, that is often bought and sold before the berries reach 
the city. 
Who ever will may find pleasure and profit in intensive cultivation—spacing 
the young plants about the parent plant so that each will stand about eight inches 
from its neighbor, keeping all other runners clipped throughout the season, but 
on a large scale this is lots of work. Another way to get like results is to grow 
in hills, and the expence is not much greater than with ordinary matted rows. 
What of 5 or 10 or 20 acres of Senator Dunlaps near some large city, set in two 
foot check rows, to cultivate both ways, keeping the runners clipped with the 
hoe when hoeing, what great big plants by fall, what roots and what luxuriant 
foliage, what extra fancy fruit and what satisfaction to control the trade, for 
those who buy the Dunlap come again. It is an ideal variety for hill culture, hav¬ 
ing a well balanced plant, excelling in vine vigor as well as fruiting vigor. It 
is a mistake to suppose that varieties like Parker Earle are best for hill culture 
as it is to desire two berries where only one should grow. We once counted 
nearly 400 berries on a single large plant of Parker Earle, not one of which de- 
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