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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
*T' r Perfect. We were much disappointed in this variety last season. 
1 CAdS We got very few berries, and these were quite soft. We hear good? 
reports of it in the South, but fear it will not prove a success with many in* 
this section. Medium early, but not as early as has been claimed. 
Challenge 
Perfect. Originated with J. R. Peck, of Missouri, who is also 
the originator of our Peck’s Early Potato. Plants received 
in 1902 from M. Crawford, of Ohio, and fruited here two years. We find the 
Challenge all that has been claimed. The plants are good growers, with clean 
healthy foliage. Fruit large to extra large mostly, but there were some medium 
sized berries. Pong, broad and flattened as a rule; extra bright red color and' 
very handsome when crated. Many of the berries were not so well colored on 
the underside as we could wish, but not so as to hurt the quality or sale and 
the yield was heavy. Season medium to late. This is a good variety and we 
were fortunate in having a good supply of plants last year. We have a fairly 
good supply for 1905. 
Mark Hanna 
Imperfect. Plants received in 1902 from the intro¬ 
ducer, M. L. Thompson, of Virginia, who say of it: “V 
cannot describe and tell all the good qualities of this new berry and do it justice, 
as I have known it the past eight years. It is a seedling of the Bubach, which 
it much resembles, but on the average the berries are not so large. When I 
tell you they simply lay in heaps and piles it is only for you to see them to get 
any idea of their productiveness. The way I have seen small rows of these 
berries pick will make a man hustile to handle a few acres. It i^ what its- 
name implies, as Mark Hanna is the greatest political leader the United States 
has ever known,so I think is this strawberry. Every one who has seen them 
pronounce them without a fadlt.” 
We got a few plants of this and of the Mrs. Mark Hanna, and have now fruit¬ 
ed them two years. Mr. Thompson also sent us a few plants of his earliest 
strawberry stating that others had been sent out under this name that would not 
compare very favorably with the original. The earliest is a valuable extra early 
sort much like Cameron Early. The Mrs. Mark Hanna is a fine berry, but the 
vines rust badly and is otherwise not a satisfactory grower here. The Mark 
Hanna is all that is claimed for it. We are delighted with its robust, healthy 
growth and the immense yield of fine, large, handsome fruit. This variety was 
offered under restrictions not to sell any of the plants for two years at less than 
$2.00 per dozen and $10.00 per 100, but the time is now past and we offer it much 
less. Medium season. 
]W['J ' Lx (11:59 P. M.) Perfect. This is Mr. G. H. Hale’s latest and 1 
lvlianigni claimed by him to be the latest ever offered. It is said to be 
very productive, large and of good quality. Not yet fruited here. We had but a 
small stock of this last year and none were left to fruit. The plants are good 
growers. Mr. Hale has a national reputation as a horticulturist and anything 
he approves ought to be worthy of a trial at least. 
t+L Perfect. New. Plants received in 1903 from the 
V^UlIlIIlOnWcdllll introducer, Wm. H. Monroe, of Massachusetts, who 
says the Commonwealth is the outcome of a desire to lengthen the strawberry 
season. This has been accomplished. In the Commonwealth we have a berry 
that is as large as the largest, as productive, as fine flavored, as solid and as 
dark colored as any. It is smooth, similar to Jucunda in shape, and very juicy. 
It has a strong staminate blossom. It is late. On the 18th of July, 1902, as good 
berries were picked as during its season and in quantity, Marshall, Glen Mary and 
McKinley, side by side with it being gone. The last berries were picked July 
22. The Massachusetts Horticultural Society awarded Commonwealth first prize 
in competition with Marshall, July 5, 1902. 
Benjamin M. Smith, of Beverly, Mass., says: "Of the new seedling strawber¬ 
ry, the Commonwealth, originated and about to be introduced by Mr. Monroe, I 
will say I have watched it carefully growing on his grounds with all the lead¬ 
ing varieties, and for vigor of plant, productiveness and quality of fruit it 
excels them all. It is a very late strawberry and one of the best I think I ever 
saw.” 
We had this variety in an exposed place last season, and many of the plants 
were injured by the severity of the winter. Later in the spring we dug up all 
those that escaped by being covered with ice after the snow went off in Febru¬ 
ary and reset them. They all lived and made a good growth, but there were- 
none left to fruit. 
THE NEW EATON RASPBERRY — SEE PAGE 24. 
