DEAR FRIEND and CUSTOMER: . 
Before we can fully express our appreciation to our friends 
and customers, some one will have to add new words to the dictionary. 
It is the height of our ambition to serve you in a way that you will 
have a bountiful crop of strawberries. Your success starts here twelve 
months before you receive your plants. First, selecting a particular type 
of woodland, clearing and preparing the soil, careful selection of plants 
to be planted, and continuous cultivation through the summer. When 
properly dug, packed and shipped, you are happy when they arrive. 
Our interest does not cease when we have shipped. We are 
more happy when you have had a bountiful crop of strawberries. You 
will be surprised at how much larger your strawberries are, and how 
much longer the fruiting season is extended by using our plants grown 
in the abundantly fertile virgin soil. This, our old customers already 
realize. 
As to disease and insects and many other problems—so many 
of them have to be worked out where they originate that we can set 
no definite rule. If you will let us know what your greatest problem 
is, we may be in a position to help you. 
Please place your order as far in advance of shipping date as 
possible. This will help us to have your plants arrive at the proper 
time. Advance orders acknowledged. 
AS TO THE VARIETIES 
TENNESSEE BEAUTY — This is another development of our own 
state. Fruits a few days later than the Blakemore. It is a heavy 
yielder of large, red, firm fruit. Preferred to Blakemore by many local 
growers. Good shipper or for cold pack. 
BLAKEMORE — We have the yellow resistant strain. At one time 20% 
of all the strawberries grown in the United States were Blakemore. The 
best information we have from the cold packers is that there is no 
strawberry that excells the Blakemore. Fruit is red all the way through, 
very firm, holds its color and flavor well from picking to processing. 
Ships well. 
