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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
Varieties. 
and Jessie, as it was found growing near these sorts by Mr. R. C. Cronk, of Wis- 
eousin, who has grown it several years with all the prominent varieties, includ¬ 
ing New York, Sample, Glen Mary, Wm. Belt, Nick Ohmer and, as he states, a 
host of others. Mr. Cronk wrote us about five years ago claiming it was the 
best berry on earth and for two years we tried to make arrangements with him 
to test it here, but he would not sell us a few plants for trial, though he had sold 
a few to neighbors and nearby growers at a dollar eaoh. That every plant was 
worth that and more to anyone and especially to us, seeing was believing, etc., 
etc., and he wanted us to come and see them while in fruit, but we found it im¬ 
possible to leave our own berries at the time. He finally offered to sell us a 
few plants at a stated price, but when we sent the order with remittance, he re¬ 
turned it and we concluded we could never arrive at any definite understanding 
with Mr. Cronk. We finally secured a few plants from one of his neighbors, a 
customer of ours on whom we could rely and a member of the National Associa¬ 
tion of Nurserymen, who had grown a small stock of it from plants git of Mr. 
Cronk, and who stated that it was a wonderful bearer, yielding double alongside 
of Dunlap and others on his grounds. After fruiting the Velvet here in 1903, 
we were so well pleased with it that, although we had but a small 
supply of plants, we offered it to our customers last spring, giving 
it first place in our catalogue as the most promising new variety and we 
did not have enough to go around, so that we were obliged to get a new supply 
from our customer to help us out with orders and for our own resetting. We 
only saved three or four of the plants to fruit and on that account cannot say as 
much about it as our friends who have written us conserning it could wish. 
But we are satisfied that it is a great variety to yield, and the fruit is large and 
handsome. The plants are good size with bright green foliage, clean and 
healthy, making a good fruiting row. The bloom is pistillate, and the season 
medium to late. This new berry was guarded so closely by Mr. Cronk that 
other reports conserning it are not available, except that of our customer of 
whom we got our plants and who, in the meantime, had got out a colored plate 
of the variety; but we hope for many other good reports of it the coming 
season from those who got plants of us last spring; but as stated in our 
catalogue last year, if any are dissatisfied with it, as not worth the price they 
paid us for the plants last year, after fruiting it this season, we will upon 
request return them the amount in cash or its value in any leading new variety 
they may select from the present list. It would hardly have paid us to offer a 
variety under such conditions unless we were quite sure it would prove a 
winner. 
Perfect A sure enough ever bearer and the greatest 
novelty in strawberries ever introduced. For years we 
American 
have been testing every so-called everbearing strawberry that we could hear of. 
but we never found one that could be depended on to produce berries in the 
summer and fall in any quantity unless the regular season crop had been cut 
short by frost or drouth followed by extreme favorable conditions in the 
summer and fall, until the advent of the Pan American. Several varieties from 
the Pacific coast states that were second croppers in that climate doubtless, have 
only proved everbearing here when the conditions were as above, and that in a 
small way and in about the same degree as others of our well known sorts for 
which no special claims are made. But the Pan American is, in every sense, an 
everbearing variety and a heavy yielder as well. A strawberry plant that 
produces aiarge and continuous crop of fine berries from August 1st until winter 
according to Samuel Cooper, of New York, the introducer, of whom we got our 
plants and according to our own experience after fruiting it two years. Mr. 
Cooper received copy of award of silver medal at the Pan-American Exposition 
lor continuous display of the new seedling strawberry Pan American from July 
18th to November 24th, and it was awarded honorable mention by the American 
Pomological Society at Buffalo. 1901. We also quote the following from H. E. 
Van Deman in Rural New Yorker of August 22, 1903: 
“A. T. B., Plainfield, N. J.—Knowing that you have the Pan American straw¬ 
berry under test I wish you would tell us what you think of it. Is it a humbug, 
or a success? 
“Ans. — Yes, I have the Pan American growing in my city lot here in 
Washington. The plants were set last April and have grown well, but have made 
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