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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON CO.’S CATALOGUE. 
Uncle Jim 
Perfect. We have no room to publish all the good thing® 
said about the Uncle Jim. We introduced it as the finest of 
them all, and we reaffirm that it is the finest, firmest, the most productive, and 
the best grower of 
all the large varie¬ 
ties that are well 
tested here. This 
variety was so 
valuable and so 
distinctly superi¬ 
or to any other of 
its type that it 
was sought to 
change its name 
to the Dornan, by 
action with the 
Michigan State 
Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, after we had 
introduced it as 
the Uncle Jim. 
The plants are 
large and healthy, 
making a good 
row for fruiting. 
The fruit is large 
and beautiful, 
firm, and of good 
quality. It has a 
perfect blossom, 
and its season is 
medium to late. 
We fruited this 
quite heavily in 
1903, when it was 
the admiration of 
all who visited our 
grounds, and many 
plants were order¬ 
ed then, and later 
in the season, for 
spring delivery. As stated elsewhere in this catalogue we got sold out of 
plants and were obliged to order several thousand of former customers to help 
us out with orders last spring and for our own resetting, so that we only fruited 
perhaps a half a dozen plants, the fruit of which was large and fine as in 1903. 
We do not claim it is the best on earth, but that it is the best of all the large 
varieties, many of which are shy bearers or too soft to ship, or of poor quality 
compared with medium sized varieties. 
Mr. Wooster, of Maine, said in American Gardening: “Uncle Jim shows up 
to be one of the very * best large berries ever introduced. It is a picture of 
health and strength and seems to be without a fault in its make up. This 
variety must come to front rapidly.” 
Mr. Crawford, of Ohio, said: "The Uncle Jim is one of the new varieties 
that impressed us very favorably after fruiting it one year, appearing to be just 
what the introducers claimed for it; viz., a very productive, firm, large, good 
flavored, good colored late berry; beginning to ripen a little before Gandy, but 
having a long season.” 
Mr. Kevitt, of New Jersey, said of it in the Rural New Yorker: “Very prom¬ 
ising; very prolific; good, healthy foliage; one of the best thrifty growers on 
the grounds. Berries very large, somewhat resembling New York in fruit and 
foliage. A good one.” 
J. H. Hale, of Connecticut, says: “Only a moderate plant maker and so 
every plant is a buster. Very stout leaf stalks, broad, tough foliage and many 
fruiting crowns to each plant. It is somewhat of the same type as Maximus and 
Morgan, only is a deeper red on the outside and has the red flesh all through.” 
Mr. Wooster, of South Hancock, Maine, in his catalogue for 1904, states: 
“This variety which we got from Messrs. Flansburgh & Pierson in 1901 has 
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