334 EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 



EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 



that it was early cultivated in Europe, it is 

 now of small importance as a cultivated plant, 

 chiefly because of its unproductiveness and 

 its dioecious flower. The species is unimportant 

 in American strawberry-culture. 



EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 



Under some conditions of temperature and 

 moisture, nearly all varieties of strawberries 

 bear fruit from early summer to late autumn. 

 Thus, in the Gulf states and on the Pacific 

 slope, the season of most varieties may be 

 made to extend over several months. This 

 tendency is much more marked in certain 

 varieties, and in some of these the season is 

 extended, or at least a fall crop is produced 

 in the North and East. These everbearers 

 of the East, having the everbearing character 

 fixed, constitute a distinct strain. They are 

 descendants of Pan American, which originated 



in 1898 with Samuel Cooper, Delevan, New 

 York. Whether Pan American originated as 

 a bud-sport or from a seed is in doubt. There 

 are now a score or more so-called everbearers 

 of more or less value. 



The Alpine strawberry, F. vesca, of Europe, 

 often gives everbearing varieties which are 

 cultivated in Europe, but these are so unpro- 

 ductive, and the berries run so small that 

 they find little favor in America. With these 

 Alpine varieties, as with varieties of common 

 cultivation, much depends on climate as to 

 whether the season may be extended or a 

 double crop harvested. 



Of the many everbearing strawberries in- 

 troduced in this country, only the following 

 are considered sufficiently well established to 

 warrant description in this text: Americus, 

 Pan American, Peerless, Progressive, and 

 Superb. 



