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FLANSBURGH & PEIRSON’S CATALOGUE. 
PALMER. —(Per.)—This variety 
was introduced as the earliest berry 
in cultivation, but it was nothing ex¬ 
traordinary here in earliness or yield 
last season. The plants are good 
growers. We will try it another sea¬ 
son. 
SUTHERLAND.— (Imp.) — Fruit 
large, bright colored and good qual¬ 
ity. Plants vigorous and productive, 
medium early. This is a new berry 
introduced by Eugene Sutherland, of 
New York, and came to us with many 
strong testimonials. Fruited once 
here. A promising variety. 
STAHELIN.—(Imp.) — Introduced 
in 1902 by O. A. E. Baldwin, of Mich¬ 
igan, with a good account of it from 
the Michigan Experiment Station. 
The Geneva Experiment Station, of 
New York, the Purdue Experiment 
Station, of Indiana, and elsewhere. 
Here it is a vigorous, healthy plant 
maker and made a large crop of me¬ 
dium size bright red berries, firm and 
of good quality. Medium early. 
CAMERON EARLY.— (Per.)—In¬ 
troduced by D. Brandt, of Ohio, in 
1902, with an offer of $100.00 for 100 
plants of any variety that was earlier 
and better. The originator says it 
would bloom at every warm spell dur¬ 
ing the winter and early spring; as 
soon as the last cold weather was 
over it was full of bloom, and if cut 
down by frost it would push out more 
buds. The berries are large and fine, 
and of fine flavor. I believe it is the 
earliest of all strawberries. Mr. 
Brandt says it was full of ripe ber¬ 
ries, and at its best when Michels 
Early, Excelsior and other early sorts 
commenced to show a few red ber¬ 
ries. Mr. A. Warner, of Iowa, says 
Cameron Early was ready for busi¬ 
ness two weeks before any other va¬ 
riety he had. The first bloom on our 
Cameron Early was killed by frost 
last season, but though far advanced 
they recovered rapidly and made a 
good crop. The vines are thrifty, 
making abundance of plants with tall 
foliage. The fruit was good size, me¬ 
dium red color and good quality. 
Promising. 
LUCAS. — (Per.) — This is a variety 
for which I was awarded a medal at 
the Pan Amirican Exposition. It is 
a chance seedling that originated here 
six years ago, and every year since 
has produced a big crop of berries. 
The plants are large and very deep 
rooted, with tall, broad, dark green 
foliage, without a sign of any disease 
and are good plant makers. It has 
perfect blossoms and is one of the 
best to plant with pistillate varieties. 
The fruit is very large, roundish coni¬ 
cal of uniform size and shape and 
never misshapen; color, dark red; 
firm and of good quality. It is as pro¬ 
ductive as any perfect blossomed va¬ 
riety I know of, and ripen here in 
midseason. I do not recommend it 
for light sandy soil, but on any other 
it is a good variety.—W. S. Todd, in¬ 
troducer. 
Not fruited here. Our plants were 
received last spring from Mr. Todd, 
of Delaware, who offered it last sea¬ 
son at $1.00 per dozen. The above 
description was accompanied by a 
photograph of a large, handsome ber¬ 
ry and occupied the most important 
position in his catalogue. The growth 
of plants here and our confidence in 
Mr. Todd make us feel that Lucas is 
of extraordinary value. 
GEN’L DE WET.— We only have 
only enough plants of this variety to 
show the fruit next season, but the in¬ 
troducer claims so much for it that 
we shall order more next spring, and 
if any of our friends want a few we 
will divide. 
It is a seedling of Parker Earle 
crossed by Bubach. In foliage near¬ 
ly the same as Bubach, with the stool- 
ing habit of Parker Earle, the parent 
plant often making but one new plant 
while a year old plant will often show 
12 to 14 crowns. It is said to produce 
the finest berries, the latest to ripen, 
is the healthiest and tallest grower, 
the most rugged to stand hard treat¬ 
ment and the greatest stooling berry 
ever placed upon the market. To be 
introduced this spring. 
Price, $5.00 per dozen. 
LpUIS HUBOCH.—(Imp.)— The 
Louis Huboch is a seedling of War- 
field and Lady Thompson. The plant 
is very vigorous, will stand drouth the 
best of any, and is one of the very 
best as a plant maker. The berry is 
large size, somewhat rough, very firm, 
and is immensely productive. It will 
yield three times as much as Lady 
Thompson on the same soil. It is a 
business berry and will not disappoint 
See Description of Peck’s Parly Potato on page 29. 
