STMWBERRY VARIETY TRIALS - 19^$ 



The follcfwing table lists, in order of earliness, several of the strawberry 

 varieties which v/ere fruited in the Iftiiversity variety trials last summeri 



Season of Ripening and Yield 



Thirteen pickings vrere made during the season. The "^ early" column in- 

 dicates the percentage of the total crop of each variety which was harvested 

 during the first four pickings, June 6 through 13. Likewise, the "^ late" column 

 covers the last four pickings, June 27 through July 5. 



>■■ 'This procedure lets us see just hovir much of '^ th,e crop of each variety was 

 harvested in the first, middle or last third of the season and thereby provides 

 data, ty which to classify a variety as early, midseason, or late. It is interest- 

 ing, "to note, in all four cases v^iere 'virus-free stock is compared with ordinary 

 stock of the same variety, that fruit on virus-free plants ripened slightly later 

 than on ordinary plants. 



The calculated yields per acre are based on data from small, single row plots. 

 For every variety there were at least two such plots scattered throughout the 

 field whereas for Howard, Catskill, Vermilion, Robinson, Redcrop, Sparkle and 

 Armore there were three or four such plots. Red stele was somewhat in evidence 

 in the Howard and Robinson plots, both ordinary and virus-free, which doubt- 

 less influenced the yield of those plots. However, the figures for Catskill, 

 Vermilion, Redcrop, Sparkle and Armore are probably representative of their pro- 

 duction capacities in this test. The yields of virus-free Catskill and Sparkle 



