Part 8

We began testing Kellogg’s Delicious several years ago. Its wonderful productiveness and the supremely delicious flavor of its berries impressed us so favorably that we immediately communicated with the originators, asking for a full and complete description of the variety as it grew and fruited with them. To our satisfaction, they informed us that their experience was practically identical with ours.

Kellogg’s Delicious is the result of scientific crossing and breeding. It was originated by Travis Brothers, Cleveland, N. Y. and their description of this variety is so true to life as it has grown and fruited with us, that we are presenting it with our stamp of approval:

“Kellogg’s Delicious is the most promising mid-season bi-sexual strawberry grown today. It thrives in practically all soils and climates. The plants are vigorous and healthy and root very deeply. Foliage is beautiful dark green and exceptionally resistant to leaf spot. It is enormously productive and the berries of the last picking are nearly as large as the first. Even in poor soil it will produce a large crop of good sized berries. Berries are uniformly large and fancy, dark red throughout from surface to center and exceedingly easy to pick and hull. They are produced in large clusters on strong, sturdy fruit stalks. Their flavor is delicious beyond description, hence its name.

You cannot recommend Kellogg’s Delicious too highly as its performance more than justifies your most eloquent endorsement.”

We have thoroughly tested Kellogg’s Delicious for several seasons and now are offering it to our customers with the full assurance that it will produce berries of more delicious quality than any other variety of its season and that it is not exceeded in productiveness by any other mid-season variety.

The commercial grower will find it highly profitable because its berries are large and firm and ship and carry splendidly. It also is one of the very choicest and most economical varieties for the home garden as its berries are so sweet, mild and delicious that they are thoroughly relished as dessert even when served with little or no sugar.

Basing our opinion on its performance with us and with the originator under conditions entirely dissimilar, we have the strongest assurance that this is destined to become one of the world’s most popular and most widely grown varieties.

In setting Kellogg’s Delicious, you are assured strong, vigorous plants and big crops of fancy, delicious berries and when it begins fruiting in your own field or garden you’ll say, “Delicious, I’m glad I met you.”

There is sure to be an overwhelming demand for plants of this variety. We cannot too strongly advise that you order early. Delay will probably result in your order reaching us after these plants are all sold. Avoid this disappointing experience by sending us your order as early as possible.

For prices of Kellogg’s Delicious plants see Page 66, column 4.

The MARVEL of BEAUTY and PRODUCTIVENESS

MALE OR BI-SEXUAL (B)

(For photo-engravings see Back Cover also Pages 5 and 24)]

We never introduce any variety until thorough and extensive tests have convinced us that it is superior to any other variety of its season. As proof of this assertion, we proudly refer to the universal and unrivalled success of new originations which we have introduced in the past.

At last we have found the superior late bi-sexual variety, Kellogg’s Marvel, (The Marvel of Beauty and Productiveness), which we predict will assume leadership among late varieties just as Kellogg’s Premier ranks supreme in the extra-early list.

Kellogg’s Marvel is a strong, late bi-sexual of the same season as Kellogg’s Big Late. The plants grow to enormous size, develop big, robust roots and crowns, are extremely hardy and vigorous and withstand drouth to a remarkable degree. The foliage is bright snappy green, its tough leaf tissue rendering it resistant to leaf spot, insects and weather extremes.

Its marvelous productiveness, the beauty and exquisite flavor of its big, bright, blood-red berries and its strong, healthy, vigorous plants combine to make Kellogg’s Marvel as nearly 100 per cent strawberry perfection as it is possible to obtain.

Kellogg’s Marvel originated with Percy Schuchardt of North Lake, Wisconsin, who furnishes the following description and information:

“I discovered Kellogg’s Marvel seven years ago, about the middle of July in an old sod. The plant growth was so strong that it had practically choked out the grass. I removed six plants to an old flower bed for want of a better place to propagate them and although this original plot has never been weeded, watered, fertilized or cared for in any way since the first season, it has fruited well every year for the past six years and is still in commission, producing some fine large berries this season.

Kellogg’s Marvel is undoubtedly a cross of Senator Dunlap and Warfield as I fruited these two varieties for years prior to the discovery of the Kellogg’s Marvel seedling and I had the only strawberry patch in this vicinity.

The foliage of this variety resembles its presumable parents but is much taller and in plant growth, it is the strongest I ever have seen.

It is the most productive variety that I know of, outyielding all others here two to one.

The berries have a slight neck like Senator Dunlap but are firmer and longer than either Dunlap or Warfield. Their quality is excellent--far better than any other strawberry I have ever tasted. They are beautiful dark red clear through and equally splendid for all purposes. We use them exclusively in our hotel.

My admiration for Kellogg’s Marvel grows stronger every year. I consider it practically a ‘fool proof’ variety--one which may be planted anywhere with assured success.”

Just think of it--the offspring of Senator Dunlap and Warfield, two of the very best of the old-time standard varieties. This alone is sufficient to commend Kellogg’s Marvel if nothing more were said of it.

The photo-engravings shown on Pages 5, 24 and Back Cover give only a slight idea of the size, color and beauty of Kellogg’s Marvel strawberries as it is impossible to reproduce on paper their remarkable splendor.

We have tried to be ultraconservative in our description of this variety but we simply couldn’t--the variety wouldn’t permit. Plant Kellogg’s Marvel this spring and you’ll acknowledge that it merits a more glowing description than we have presented; that this variety really is “The Marvel of Beauty and Productiveness.”

We anticipate a much greater demand for plants than we can possibly supply and our caution, “order early to avoid the disappointing, sold-out experience,” applies with special significance to this variety.