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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON’S CATALOGUE. 
wood, Springdale Beauty and Dun¬ 
lap, then came the Marie and the 
majority of varieties, winding up with 
Marie and Uncle Jim. In former sea¬ 
sons we have not considered theMarie 
as a late berry, that is, not a very late 
berry, but last season we picked 
several bushel of this variety after all 
others were through, and still there 
were some berries left, and these of 
extra quality, much better than they 
were earlier in the season. But our 
pickers were all tired, the writer in¬ 
cluded, who had picked quite steadily 
each day for six weeks in the plat be¬ 
hind the packing house that con¬ 
tained a few of each variety. We did 
not lack for help, some of our pickers 
earning $2.50 per day, at a cent and 
a half per quart, and one or two had 
picked over 200 quarts in a day in the 
height of the season, but it was neces¬ 
sary to know by such experience how 
the new ones compared with the old 
in order to give our customers a better 
idea about them in our catalog. We 
had two rainy days that destroyed 
some berries; the first a Saturday and 
when we started in again on Monday 
it commenced to rain and kept it up 
all day, making three days without 
picking. How we wished that all of 
our berries had a good mulch under 
them as were the most of our Uncle 
Jims, Dunlaps and Maries’ that we 
had been snipping to the cities at 
fancy prices. Tuesday we picked 325 
bushels, a good many were not fancy 
shipping stock as you may imagine, 
but the rains had been cold instead of 
warm and they were much better than 
we anticipated. We held a contract 
with the canners here for all the ber¬ 
ries we could spare at 5c per quart 
with crates and baskets returned, and 
this let us out with a loss of but a 
few bushels. It does not take many 
berries to supply our little village and 
we depend on the big markets out¬ 
side. Our Uncle Jims brought the 
highest prices and were shipped 
hundreds of miles both north and 
south and were the most admired at 
home and abroad. We regard this as 
the finest, firmest and most produc¬ 
tive of all the large berries that are 
well tested here. What the Oom 
Paul, Auto, Yant and other varieties 
of a similar type will do in a practical 
field test remains to be seen. We 
fruited scarcely any but a few of the 
spring set plants that remained after 
digging, but we have a fine stand of 
these for 1904, especially of Oom 
Paul. The Uncle Jim is our own in¬ 
troduction but we hope the Oom Paul 
or some other yet to come will prove 
finer still. 
The Dunlap is a different type as is 
also the Marie of a still different type. 
We mention these three sorts espe¬ 
cially as they were the bulk of our ber¬ 
ry crop and beside they are compara¬ 
tively new varieties that are rapidly 
becoming famous. We had these on 
ordinary good new soil by no means 
as rich as it should be for growing 
fruit, and yet they were a sight to 
behold, we had many visitors from 
abroad who expressed their admira¬ 
tion by demanding that we place their 
orders on the spot for plants in the 
spring. We set al three in good 
amount last spring, but while the 
Uncle Jim makes a good healthy well 
set row the plants are extra large and 
do not count so fast in digging and 
we expect we have already promised 
the greater nart of them. 
The Dunlap is a great plant maker, 
and while we expect to sell more of 
this than any other one sort, our sup¬ 
ply is ample for any ordinary demand, 
beside we have a field set especially 
for fruit that we can draw upon if 
necessary. One visitor from a neigh¬ 
boring county, as he noted our broad 
healthy rows of Dunlaps with the 50 
to 60 bushel crates of fine large ber¬ 
ries at the ends, waiting for the pick¬ 
up-wagon, remarked.—“I don’t see 
how you do it. I have been buying 
pedigree plants and following along 
the lines laid down for growing great 
crops of strawberries. My rows are 
not half so wide as yours and are 
done fruiting, while you commenced 
as soon as I and are now in the 
height of the season. Our rows were 
certainly wide, but they were full of 
berries, big ones, too, and not a cull 
among them, the baskets being taken 
direct from the pickers and packed in 
the crates without sorting, we have 
never seen a poor Dunlap berry on our 
vines, unless it was over ripe. It is a 
good keeper and shipper, one lady re¬ 
marking as she came for more, “I 
kept them two days as fresh and 
nice as when first picked.” 
The Marie is a good grower, but a 
more moderate plant maker than the 
Dunlap and received its share of 
praise from every one for its fine ap- 
See Description of Feok’s Early Potato on page 29. 
