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HART’S NURSERY, SPENCERVILLE, INDIANA 
SECRETS 
Of Successful Berry Culture 
We are glad to tell any one the tilings we have learned in growing small fruit. 
There is one point that has not been stressed by nursery men. Unless your ground is 
low, and a springy type of soil, your plants should be planted much earlier than is 
the usual practice. Heavy frosts will not hurt them and they will stand light freezes. 
A snow on newly set plants is of great benefit. 
Do you have trouble getting sufficient plants to make a fruiting row? Strawberry 
plants are made by the mother plant making new runners. If this new plant does not 
make roots soon after the new leaves are formed, the under side, where the rootlets 
form, become woody and no roots form. If the weather is damp or rainy no difficulty 
will be experienced, but if it is dry a little earth should be drawn to the plant and 
this difficulty will be overcome. These early plants are the most valuable plants for 
fruiting. 
Here is one question asked more often than any other: “What shall I do with 
the blossoms that come on my newly set plants?” Wait until about half the berries 
have begun to develop, then cut off the berries and remaining blossoms. You may 
have to go over them once more in about a week, but you will find it time well spent. 
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THE TRUTH ABOUT STRAWBERRIES 
W HATEVER others may say about the different varieties of strawberries we will 
give you our honest opinion about them. Many varieties that have been intro¬ 
duced in the past and advertised as superior to all others have proved to be of value to 
the seller of the plants only, and the buyer had only a sad experience. 
We have only to recall the following varieties: Harvest King, Red Gold and Wash¬ 
ington, to prove the above statements. 
We grorv only varieties of proven merit and will give you the weak as well as the 
st rong points of each variety we sell. 
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STRAWBERRIES 
PREMIER (Early) 
THE MOST POPULAR BERRY—No strawberry in recent years has gained the pop¬ 
ularity that has come to Premier. It has given more general satisfaction than any 
variety ever introduced—as a market berry it has outclassed all others, though not 
so well suited for long distance shipping as some other varieties. 
When you come to earliness, size, shape, attractiveness, and quality it is hard to 
beat. • raj 
One essential in having a big crop of berries is to have good healthy foliage, 
without this no variety can produce a good crop. You will find the foliage on Premier 
just as green at the end of the picking season as at the beginning. 
If Premier has any fault it is this: Many have difficulty in getting sufficient 
plants to make a wide row. They should be planted very early to overcome this dif¬ 
ficulty. 
We have a large acreage of Premier plants and you will make no mistake in 
pdanting liberally of this variety. 
PRICE: 25 plants 25c; 100 for 75c; 1,000 for $4.50. 
We will send your strawberry plants prepaid if you enclose 10c additional for each 
hundred plants. 
Write for Prices on Large Lots of Plants 
