The back cover of Lovetts Guide to Fruit Culture, Spring, 1894, features these gems of 1893 and reminds us that we will soon be loading our cars with baskets and heading for the nearest berry farm. Some of us make jams, jellies, pies and our favorite Strawberry Shortcake recipes while all of us enjoy eating them fresh off the vine.
Strawberries are the first fruits of summer here in Western New York, followed by raspberries, blueberries, and then apples, peaches and pears. Coffeetable-size books with colorful plates showing these luscious summer fruits are on the shelves here in the Bullis Room. So let's enjoy all of these fruits while they're in season. And come November, we can take these books off the shelf and spend the winter dreaming of next summer's bounty. That way we can have our fruit and eat it too.
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