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R. M. Kellogg Co.

Best known for practical strawberry-growing guides and nursery catalogs, this Michigan company wrote in a brisk, encouraging style aimed at everyday growers. Its surviving publications offer a lively glimpse into early 20th-century American horticulture and mail-order garden culture.

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Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way

Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way

by R. M. Kellogg Co.

About the author

R. M. Kellogg Co. was not an individual author but a Michigan nursery and seed company whose publications circulated widely through catalogs and growing manuals. Surviving records connect the firm with Ionia and later Three Rivers, Michigan, and also note the name Rushire Fruit Farm.

The company is especially associated with books and pamphlets about strawberries and other small fruits. One of its best-known titles, Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way, is preserved by Project Gutenberg, while the Biodiversity Heritage Library lists many more Kellogg publications ranging from sales catalogs to cultivation guides.

Taken together, these works read as a mix of instruction, promotion, and optimism. They were written to help home gardeners and small-scale growers raise better crops, and today they remain useful as snapshots of historic gardening advice and early American nursery marketing.