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Title: Key to profit in the garden
Identifier: CAT31283859 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Moore & Simon (Philadelphia, Pa. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA. : Moore & Simon
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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STRAWBERRY PLANTS fl If wanted by mail, add 25c. per 100 From our extensive collection, we have selected the varieties offered as the best for general use. latitude, before May 5th, will under proper conditions give a nice lot of fruit the present year. If planted out any time, in this M. & 5.—Earliest of all Strawberries The most valuable production of the age. The most wonderful and remarkable berry ever introduced. Absolutely the earliest large strawberry in existence. Immense size, prodigious yield, delicious flavor. Plant strong, luxuriant and healthy. Flowers bi-sexual. Has produced 16,000 Quarts to the Acre Every market gardener who plants it largely is insured handsome profits. On account of its beauty and extreme earliness it always commands the very highest market price. Its extreme earliness is due to its hard- iness ; the buds form late in the fall, and re- main unaffected by the winter cold or early spring frosts—a remarkable thing, but true. The blossoms are produced before the leaves in the spring, and are not affected by any frost, no matter how severe. This valuable variety does remarkably well on poor, thin land, while on heavy soil the yield is simply prodigious. In our vicinity they usually commence bearing about May 5th to 8th, and continue producing large, beautiful berries of delicious flavor long after all early sorts are exhausted. The plant is a good strong grower, with dark green foli- age and nearly rust-proof; extraordinarily pro- ductive even in light soil; the fruit is borne on long stems of large size and of a most brilliant scarlet color. The flavor is slightly tart, but very good ; a grand berry for the private gar- den, its fine color and general excellence mak- ing it a fine dessert fruit. It is especially adapted for long distance shipping and we especially commend it to southern growers. Every berry grower, north, south, east or west, should plant it. Prices for 1899 : Doz. 30c, 100 $1.50,1000 $8.00. Add ioc. per doz. if to go by mail. Special prices will be quoted on lots of 5,000 and upwards. WARFIELD PRIZE (Bi-sexual: Early to late) Regarded by the great strawberry growers as the best variety for general use, either for the family or for market. In the New York market it commands a higher price than any other, owing to its uniform size, delicious flavor and handsome appearance. In a two-acre plot of it we could not find a malformed berry ; every one was perfect and as even in size and form as if turned out of a mould. It ripens uniformly, not a green tip is ever to be found on it; the color when ripe is a glossy crimson scarlet. It is medium in size, juicy and solid to the centre and of a delightful flavor ; in fact, this is one of its ex- celling merits, and is the cause of its having been in demand by the finest hotels and pri- vate families in New York since the fruit was first sold there. It is an all season berry, ripening early and bearing late, perfecting its fruit to the last berry as perfectly as the first one. It is an abundant bearer, yielding as much per plant as the most prolific, and on ac- count of its prolonged fruiting is more valuable than those which perfect their crop in a shorter period. After a close study of it for the past two years, we are convinced that it has no rival as a good all-round strawberry for the family or market—one that is certain to give satisfaction. Doz. 40c, 100 $2.25, 1000 $15.00. MIXED, LARGE-FRUITED HYBRIDIZED STRAWBERRY SEED * We herewith offer a remarkable opportunity to our customers to procure the best new and novel varieties of the best American and European varieties of strawberries. Our mixture includes all the best large-fruited, white, red and purple everbearing ; also the finest early and late fruiting sorts of the highest merit, which will insure the planter the most satisfactory results possible. Many valuable new varieties will result from planting our hybridized seed. From seed sown in April or May, we have in the following year picked large quantities of delicious fruit, not merely in the strawberry season, but as late as the third week in October. Occasionally the plants bloom the first year from seed and invariably so if sown early enough in the greenhouse and transplanted. No customer with a garden or farm should miss thii fine opportun-
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KENTUCKY WONDER (Bi-sexual; Mid-season to late) A tall luxuriant grower, with large, dark green foliage, free from rust or disease, very prolific, enduring extremes of heat or cold. It will grow on any soil the same as the Crescent. The fruit is produced in gTeat abundance on tall, stout stems, which stand up from six to eight inches the entire season, holding its load of berries from the ground so they do not get dirty, rotten or scalded. It is beautiful in color, being of a dark glossy red, which alone will make it an ornament for any table. They are so beautiful in appearance that the moment they are put on the market they will sell for the highest price. The flavor is delicious and very sweet; being one of the sweetest of strawberries, it can be called the honey strawberry ; while its fine aromatic flavor, resembling that of the wild strawberry, makes it one of the most delicious of berries. Doz. 30c, 100 $1.50, 1000 $10.00. r 68

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