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R. M. Kellogg Co.
A Michigan nursery company turned practical gardening know-how into lively how-to books for home growers, especially strawberry and small-fruit enthusiasts. Its surviving works capture an era when seed and plant catalogs doubled as hands-on manuals for building productive gardens and berry patches.
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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 a Michigan nursery and seed company associated with Ionia and later Three Rivers. Surviving records and digitized editions link the company with Rushire Fruit Farm and with practical publications on strawberries, small fruits, and garden planting for everyday growers.
Its best-known books were written in a plain, promotional, useful style: part catalog, part instruction manual. Titles such as R. M. Kellogg's Great Crops of Small Fruits, and How He Grows Them and Kellogg's Great Crops of Strawberries, and How to Grow Them the Kellogg Way focused on propagation, cultivation, and improving yields, showing how closely the company's publishing was tied to its nursery business.
Because this is a company rather than a single personal author, a traditional life story is limited. What stands out instead is its role in a long tradition of American agricultural publishing, where growers learned from seed houses and nursery firms as much as from formal textbooks.