Catalogue of strawberry plants : 1907

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GOLDEN GATE ‘STRAWBERRY

Golden Gate Strawberry

May be a golden opportunity for you.

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This new seedling is a strong grower, making
lots of plants, with large luxuriant foliage; many
single leaves measuring over nine inches across.
It has a strong staminate blossom with lots of
pollen. It is a good polenizer for any imperfect
blossom as it blossoms early and late. It produces
strictly fancy, firm fruit, clear to the end of the
season, of a rich crimson color, with no green
tips.

The judges pronounced the quality as one of
the best.

This is a new seedling of mine that was award-
ed ist Premium by the Massachusetts Horti-
cultural Society in 1904, in a strong competition,
and was highly praised by those who saw it.

In June, 1906,.it won $23.00 in prizes on 7
quarts at the Massachusetts Horticultural Exhi-
bition, and in less than five minutes after the
premium cards had-been placed on the baskets
I booked orders for $75.00 worth of the plants.
It is one of the best, if not the best, strawberries
ever put on the market. You who have not suc-
ceeded in growing a good crop of Marshalls I
think will find a good substitute in the “Golden
Gate.”

The “Golden Gate” will succeed whetfe the
Marshall fails. 1 can grow 20 quarts of “Golden
Gate” where I can grow 1 quart of the Marshall.
Seven berries have filled a quart. It is extra
quality and sells at the highest price.

As an extra fancy strawberry it will take the
place of the Marshall, for in most places the
Marshall is a very poor bearer. I have grown
the Marshall 14 years and have had only one
paying crop. The Marshall blossom is very ten-
der and usually gets killed by frost. The year I

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had a crop of Marshalls there was no frost to
kill the blossoms.

In 1906 the Marshalls and “Golden Gates” grew
within 7 feet of each other, the blossoms on the
Marshalls were nearly all killed but the “Golden
Gates” were killed but little. You will make no
mistake in setting this variety. Price: 6 plants,
$1.25; 12—$2.50; 100—$10.00.

Fall Bearing
Strawberries

Pan-American ( Perfect Blossom )

A strawberry plant that produces a continuous
crop of nice berries the same year the plants are
set. Both parent plant and runner plants bear
fruit from June till November in the open field
without protection, except from their own folli-
age. New blossoms coming continuously. The
berries are good size and nice quality. They re-
quire rich, moist land to do their best, but will
grow where any variety will. To do their best, in
the fall the first blossom stems should be cut off.
I sold one man 50 plants in May, he wrote me in
November (same year), he had picked 75 quarts
from them.

Try a few, you will be pleased with them. In
September and October I picked 300 pints on a
very small bed. Price: 6—$1.25; 12—$2.50; 100—
$15.00.

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The Autumn

It has a pistilate blossom and must be set near —
the Pan-American to bear fruit in the fall. It
makes lots of plants on moist land, but all of them
are not as sure to fruit in the fall as the Pan-
American. Those that do bear, produce abund-
antly a medium size, very handsome, very dark
colored, perfect shaped, nearly round berry. This
is one of the most productive spring bearing
varieties one can grow, but if allowed to fruit
early it will not do as well in the fall. The plants
one wishes to fruit in the fall may not be al-
lowed to bear in the spring by cutting the early
fruiting stems. Price: 6 plants, $1.00; 12—$2.00;
100—$10.00.

The Abington (New),

The following is the originator’s description:

I claim that the “Abington” is the best yielder
and makes the largest matted row, perfect blos-
som berry, that has been introduced up to date.

The “Abington” is a berry that will take the
place of the Bubach, it is a better plant maker,
the blossom is perfect and hardy, it sends up

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more fruit stalks, there are more buds on each
fruit stalk, it ripens at the same time, the berry
is better color, firmer, better flavor, runs larger
throughout the season, and holds its color better
after it is picked.

Strawberry growers who are looking for a
great market berry that is a big cropper, big”
plant maker and a big money maker—try the
“Abington.”

I saw the originator’s bed of “Abingtons” in
1905 and I should say they are all he claims for
them. S. H..-W.

Price: 12—50c., 100—$1.00, 1,000—$5.50.

Great Scott

One of the largest even to the last picking.
The plant is very strong and healthy. Berries
bright scarlet color. Its season is medium to late.
It is very productive. Price: $1.00 per doz:; $4.00
per 100.

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Common Varieties

Per Per Per
Dozen Hundred Thousand

*Per. Marshall, Large, Crim-
son, mid-season, extra qual-
ity, wants extra culture, $0.25 $1.00 $4.00

*Per. Miller, Large, Scarlet,
mid-season, extra quality,
very productive, 35. 1.00. 5.00

*Imp. Bubach, Large, Scarlet,
mid-season, good quality,
productive, 25 75° 5.00

*Per. Senator Dunlap, Crim-
son, Medium size, mid-sea-
son, extra quality, very
productive. It will please
you,

*Imp. Minute Man, Crimson,
medium to large, mid-sea-
son, good, very productive,

*Imp. Sample, Quite Large,
Scarlet, late, good, a mon-
ey maker, productive,

*Per. Brandywine, Large,
Crimson, late, extra qual-
ity, productive,

*Per. Gaudy, Crimson, large,
very late,

*Per. Gladstone, Large, Scar-
let, mid-season, good, pro-
ductive.

*Per. Glen Mary, Large,
Crimson, medium, good,
productive,

*Per, Clyde, Large, Scarlet,
early, very productive,
good,

*Imp. Haverland, medium to
large, Scarlet, early to
mid-season, good, very
productive,

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*Per. Excelsior, the earliest.
small, Crimson, acid,

*Per. Belmont, large, Crim-
son, late, good,

“Golden Gates,’ look at the
description on another
page.

*Per. means perfect blossom.
*I[mp. means imperfect blossom.

Try a few of the “Golden Gates.” ‘You will be
pleased with them. They do well.on all kinds of
soil.

Pot-Grown Strawberry Plants

For late Summer or early Fall setting, pot-
grown strawberry plants will give the best fruit
the following spring, if they are well cared for.
They are sure to live in dry or wet weather, as
there is a ball of earth on every plant which is
well filled with roots. ,

Before planting, make the ground rich with
stable manure or fine bone and ashes.

For a small bed, set plants in three rows, one
foot each way; then leave a path thirty inches
wide and set three more rows. Keep all runners
cut off. i

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I can furnish the following varie-

ties of Pot Grown Strawberry Plants
in August and September :

Marshall, Excelsior, Sample, Sen. Dun-
lap, Haverland, Minute Man, Brandy-
wine and Ridgeway, 12 50c; 100
$2.50.

Great Scott and Abington, 12 $1.00;
100 $3.00.

Golden Gate, 12 $2.50; 100 $10.00.

Pan-American, 12 $2.50; 100 $15.00.

Autumns, 12 $2.00; 100 $10.00.

, I sold the Pan-American Strawberries in Bos-

ton in September and October 1905 at whole-

sale, for 40c per pint and they retailed at 60c
per pint. ~

S.H. WARREN

WESTON, MASS.

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