Excerpt from Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue, Village Nurseries: Spring 1902 In our last catalogue we gave an outline of what we were doing in producing new varieties by crossing those varieties, which we expected would give us the desired results thus making them Pedigree Seedlings. The actual results obtained fully demonstrates the advantages of our methodical and systematic crossing of varieties. In all of our work. We have kept constantly in mind all that would be necessary to have in an ideal strawberry. First, and most important, was health and vigor of plant and foliage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.