Henderson's midsummer catalogue . rded all other sorts. The prominent merits of the Heritage Straw-berry are: The plant is very large of extremely heavy texture—single crown plants often carrying foliage with a spread of20 to 22 inches. It is very deep rooting—drought and disease resisting and a prodigious yielder—from mid-season untilvery late of unusually large and beautiful berries of a dark shining crimson color and round tapering conical in shape. Alarge heavy green calyx adding to its beauty and desirability as a table berry. The flesh is solid of fine texture and its de-licious flavor i
Henderson's midsummer catalogue . rded all other sorts. The prominent merits of the Heritage Straw-berry are: The plant is very large of extremely heavy texture—single crown plants often carrying foliage with a spread of20 to 22 inches. It is very deep rooting—drought and disease resisting and a prodigious yielder—from mid-season untilvery late of unusually large and beautiful berries of a dark shining crimson color and round tapering conical in shape. Alarge heavy green calyx adding to its beauty and desirability as a table berry. The flesh is solid of fine texture and its de-licious flavor is unsurpassed. For the home garden the Heritage Stra%vberry is unsurpassed—it makes fine fruiting beds, the large berries—10 to ISfill a quart box—hold up in size to the very last. While for market it is a wonder—yielding SOoO quarts per acre underfavorable conditions—and even in poor seasons has never yielded less than 6000 quarts per acre. Price, (pot-grown plants), 75c. per doz.; per 100; $ per J THE MINN. Shown in Color on back cover. (Extra Late—Pistillate.) By planting the HUNN thestrawberry season may be lengtheneduntil unusually late in the season. Itripens a week later than Gandy and is exceedingly productive. The HUNN originated and was sentout by the Geneva (N. V.) Agricul-tural Experiment Station. The berriesare very large and attractive, of auniform rounding shape, glossy darkcrimson in color, flesh firm, of excellentflavor, deeply colored to the core, ren-dering it unsurpassed for plant, under favorable conditionsis a string vigorous grower, with thickclean foliage. It is easily our latestberry, and flowering late, it escapesfmsts that often insure the blossomsof earlier varieties. Price, (pot-grownplants), 50c. per doz.; $ per 100;$ per L000 LESTER LOVETT. (Extra Laic—Perfect Flowering.) Lester Lovett possesses all of thevaluable characteristics of the Gandy, with added lateness. Itis a veritable giant in
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