Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIAâSTRAWBERRY PLANTS GLEN MARY (Mid-Season to Late, Imperfectly Bi-sexual) Described by a large grower as follows: 'I have known it since its iirst bearing, and firmly believe it deserves the title of 'the berry grower's money maker.' ' It makes a very strong plant, but few of them. This reduces the cost of keeping the row in proper shape for fruiting. Its roots are enormous, enabling it to ripen its great crop of monster l\ berries in the dryest season
Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 (1914) Dreer's mid-summer catalogue 1914 . dreersmidsummerc1914henr Year: 1914 HENRY A. DREER, PHILADELPHIAâSTRAWBERRY PLANTS GLEN MARY (Mid-Season to Late, Imperfectly Bi-sexual) Described by a large grower as follows: 'I have known it since its iirst bearing, and firmly believe it deserves the title of 'the berry grower's money maker.' ' It makes a very strong plant, but few of them. This reduces the cost of keeping the row in proper shape for fruiting. Its roots are enormous, enabling it to ripen its great crop of monster l\ berries in the dryest season. 50 cts. per doz.; $ per 100; ^ $ per 1000. HERITAGE (Very Late, Perfect) A variety which has attracted much attention during the past few seasons. It originated in New Jersey, and its dis- seminator, who is a commercial grower of berries, says: 'For nearly forty years I have grown strawberries, and having tested hundreds of standard varieties and as many seedlings, feel qualified to assert that with me it is the most productive and most valuable variety I have ever seen.' The plant la a vigorous rampant grower and prodigious yielder. Berries uniformly very large, dark shining crimson, conical, uniform in size and shape and of superior quality and solid texture 50 cts. per doz.; $ per 100; $ per 1000. CLYDE (Early to Mid-Season, Perfect) A strong-growing, perfect blooming, healthy plant, with light green foliage. Everywhere tested, it proves to be exceedingly productive of large, globular, perfectly formed, light scarlet berries of fine quality. Always inclined to overbear. Some plants have more fruit stalks than leaf stalks. A light application of nitrate of soda in early spring, before fruiting or a top-dressing of stable manure in winter, â will stimulate greater foliage growth, and so help the fruit- ing of this remarkable variety. There are but few straw- berries that succeed as well over so wide a range of country as Clyde. No family collection can be
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