Archive image from page 4 of Descriptive catalogue and price list. Descriptive catalogue and price list descriptivecatal1881cayu Year: 1881 CHOICE XKW STRAWBEKRIKS U. S. AXDERSoN. 3 STRAWBERRIES. RIETIES AXD PRICES. Plants will be mailed postpaid at dozen rates, 20 cents per 50, 30 cents per 100, in addi- tion to regular rates. None mailed at 1,000 rates. THE BIDWELL. This new Strawberr\- is a seedling of the old Virginia Scarlet, originated with 1. B. Hathaway; it is a native of Michigan, and therefore derives its vigor, beauty and flavor from our best native stock. The plant is a very \-igo
Archive image from page 4 of Descriptive catalogue and price list. Descriptive catalogue and price list descriptivecatal1881cayu Year: 1881 CHOICE XKW STRAWBEKRIKS U. S. AXDERSoN. 3 STRAWBERRIES. RIETIES AXD PRICES. Plants will be mailed postpaid at dozen rates, 20 cents per 50, 30 cents per 100, in addi- tion to regular rates. None mailed at 1,000 rates. THE BIDWELL. This new Strawberr\- is a seedling of the old Virginia Scarlet, originated with 1. B. Hathaway; it is a native of Michigan, and therefore derives its vigor, beauty and flavor from our best native stock. The plant is a very \-igorous grower, forming large stools, and is immensely productive ; berries are very large, rather long, conical, sometimies irregular in shape, but generally very uniform; color, bright glossy crimson ; of the finest flavor, and very firm. Season, earh' to medium. It fruited with me this vear for the first tirne and I can fulh- endorse what has been said in its favor. I quote below the opinions of some of the leading fruit-grow- ers and horticulturists : 'Again for the third season the Bidwell takes the lead of anything on my place, averag- ing as large as the Sharpless, more productive than Wilson or Crescent, of a bright glossv crimson—the true strav/berr}- color—very firm and meaty in texture, and best of all, deli- cious in flavor. On one potted plant set last August we counted 122 berries. E. P. Roe.' 'The Bidwell is of great promise, even from the late potted plants put out in August. ]Iarshall p. Wilder.' 'The most productive of all varieties, of very fine flavor, very uniform in shape, aver- aging large to the last, of a bright, glossy crimson color, often with a glazed neck and in form much like a bell-shaped pear, early as the Duchess, flesh solid and meaty. Charles Downing.' 'The Bidwell thus far promises to quite fulfill the expectations I had formed of it. At this time it promises to yield a larger crop of fruit than any other variet} I have in my col- lection. I
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