Bountiful Ridge Strawberry Plants Are Superior — Plant Them 



SURECROP 



MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TO RED STELE — FIXE FLAVOR 



VERY HEAVi' PLANT PRODUCER 



Excellent Size . . . Good Yields . . . High Prices 



SURECROP is a really fine new strawberr>' variety- wherever grown from 

 Pennsylvania and New York to southern Virginia and westward to Ohio. 



SURECROP is a mid-season berry ripening about with Fairland and Temple. 

 The berries are a light, bright red which turns to a deep rich color. The seeds are 

 a nice bright yellow set even with the surface. SURECROP berries are firm with 

 a tough glossy skin which makes them ideal for distant markets. Tliey have also 

 been recommended for freezing. Size holds well throughout the season with the 

 average being larger than Stelemaster. 



SURECROP are very vigorous plant makers and producers, rivalling such 

 varieties as Pocaliontas and Robinson as the best bed makers of all strawberry varie- 

 ties. Coupled with STELEAL\STER as a fine early berry, SURECROP as a mid- 

 season berry will deliver a MONEY-M.AKING. RED STELE RESISTANCE 

 PUNCH for growers everywhere. 



Beautiful lari;c berries make 

 Surecrop a real challenge to the 

 mid-season kinds. A high seller 

 on 1963 markets ever>-v\'here. 



V MIDWAY 



New . . . Widely Tested ... Red Stele Resistant 



Merits Trial in all Areas 



Midway is a cross of Dixieland and Temple that has 

 done well in test plots from Massachusetts to Virginia 

 and Westward. It should be tested as a virus free, red 

 stele resistant replacement for Temple and Fairland, 

 neither of which has virus free stock available. 



Midway ripens in mid-season about with Temple. The 

 berries are mediiun- to large size, have a imiform deep 

 red color with a glossy surface, firm skin and yellow seeds. 

 The flesh is firm. Berries are irregtilar conic shape but 

 have good dessert quality and have stood up well in the 

 frozen pack. 



Plants of Midway are vigorous, highly productive, and 

 resistant to the common race of red stele. The leaves are 

 somewhat susceptible to leaf scorch and leaf spot. 



Growers report 1963 crops of Midway were excellent in 

 yield, color, size. Buyers paid high prices for fniit because 

 it carried long distances with a minimum of loss. 



^ POCAHONTAS 



The Three Way Strawberry 



FRESH MARKET... CANNED... FROZEN PACK 



Outstanding . . . Wonderful . . . My Best Money Maier . . . These are the 

 words used by many of our customers to describe the way they feel about this 

 great berry. Since its release by the U.S.D.A. Pocahontas has climbed to the top 

 of the ladder as a commercial favorite. Time after time it has out yielded all 

 other kinds from the Carolinas to New York and as far west as Ohio and Arkansas. 

 Its extra high vigor gives Pocahontas good picking beds even under adverse 

 conditions. 



Yields of Pocahontas often are more than 10.000 quarts of lar.ge. beautiful. 

 high quality berries. They have brought high profits on fresh markets everywhere. 

 Pocahontas has been accepted by the processors as an outstanding berry for canning 

 and freezing. 



The berries are a bright, glossy red: firm; somewhat conic in shape; and not 

 as tart as Blakemore. Pocahontas ripens about a week later than Blakemore. 



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Pictured above is 

 Pocahontas berries, 

 large size and nice 



a basket of 

 Note the 

 color. 



