

'Most vigorous of all — and that's not all.' 



POCAHONTAS 



The Most Vigorous Grower we have ever seen. 



A local berry that is running wild! Pocahontas was tested for several years by Dr. 

 M. M. Parker at the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk, Va., and his tests pro- 

 vided most of the grounds for its introduction by the U.S.D.A. in 1954. In the last few 

 years Pocahontas' performance has caused it to become highly popular and profitable 

 in many other areas, notably Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania. 

 Our best yield in 1955 was from Pocahontas. In the Kansas Station Pocahontas yielded 

 13,788 quarts per acre, with Dixieland second. Pocahontas led all others by a wide 

 margin. In Kentucky in 1955 official tests showed Pocahontas 520.9 crates per acre, 

 second only to Tennessee Beauty. Pocahontas originated from a cross of Tennessee 

 Shipper x Midland. From both it gets unusual firmness. From Tennessee Shipper it 

 gets a light attractive color — from Midland great productiveness. 



Dr. Parker and his associates are quite enthusiastic about the possibility of setting 

 Pocahontas in the fall and getting a fairly good crop of berries the following spring. It 

 takes lots of plants and lots of work per acre to follow their system, and good plants are 

 hard to get at that time of the year. But the variety gives a nice crop of berries much 

 earlier than with spring planting. 



Pocahontas berries average large in size, light in color, fairly tart in flavor and firm 

 enough to be a good shipper. Their light color makes them most attractive in the 

 package. It has been favorably accepted as a processing berry. A panel of experts 

 rated Pocahontas best as a freezing berry at Worcester, Ohio, in 1956. 



We predict a brilliant future for Pocahontas in the upper middle states as well as in 

 the lower middle states where it has first been grown and tested. Price list page 32. 



V C ivIVI I LJb I KJ IM A new variety recently 

 introduced by Ae University of Illinois where as a 

 seedling it did well in commercial trials in Edgar 

 County of that state. In addition to being a very 

 productive commercial sort Vermilion showed a 

 high degree of resistance to red stele. Plant growth 

 of Vermilion is quite strong and upstanding. It 

 makes an adequate number of big strong plants 

 rather than great numbers of smaller plants. Ver- 

 milion has not been grown widely enough to 

 establish its worth generally but in the central 



states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and West Virginia 

 Vermilion has shown great productiveness, ranking 

 almost with Premier and Catskill. The berries run 

 medium to large in size, somewhat irregular in 

 shape and they ripen fairly close to the ground, 

 causing some tendency to green sides. Quality is 

 fair to good with well developed berries. The fruit 

 is about as firm as Premier, color about like Temple, 

 getting fairly dark when full ripe. It ripens mid- 

 season to late and seems worth trying in com- 

 mercial areas, particularly those areas where red 

 stele is a problem. Price list page 32. 



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