WORLD'S GREATEST STRAWBERRY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17701, 1 March 1923, Page 9

WORLD'S GREATEST STRAWBERRY.

Eleven thousand pounds for a single strawberry plant I This is the pric® just paid at Three Biver, Michigan (U.S.A.)', by Mr Prank E. Beatty, chairman of'the K. M. Kellogg ,Company, fruitgrowers. It is known as tho Rockhill strawberry, and Mr Boatty says he will rißk his reputation, as a strawberry expert that it will revolutionise strawberry growing. He de-' claros that it produces delicious fruit in the spring and from late summer , until a frost. _ Tho reasons ho gave for his record price, for the exclusive right - to propagate tho berry aro that it pro* ' duces larger,' better, and more numerous berries in the eariy summer than any other variety; thai it is continually loaded during the* :iv:,;umu aniiuhtfl snow falls, with iL v rud fruit>'greon ■ fruit, and blossoais; that the .fruit keeps splendidly, and can bo transported long distances without deterioration; and_ that it is extremely hardy,' and- unaffected by any plant disease., "All strawberry experts," 1: says ■Mr . Beatty, "agroe that the Eockhill is the greatest' strawberry' under the gun." ■'