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ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES— 1926 



Medium Early Varieties 



Senator Dunlap (Dr. Burrill). This variety does well on any type of soil and 

 in any locality. Until Premier became so very popular, Senator Dunlap was prob- 

 ably the most widely grown berry throughout the country north of the Mason and 

 Dixon Line. It is said and is probably true, that Senator Dunlap will stand more 

 abuse and still come through with a good crop of berries, than any other variety. 

 The plants are rather small and on rich land should not be allowed to set too 

 thick to secure best fruit. They have long, fibrous roots which makes them better 

 than many others in a dry season. The berries are medium in size, bright, rich red 

 clear through, and very good in quality. Dunlap ranks with Premier, Big Late 

 and Paul Jones as the most productive varieties there are. The blossoms are per- 

 fect and produce a lot of pollen, making them one of the best to plant with imper- 

 fect varieties like Haverland and Paul Jones. For the inexperienced grower, 

 Dunlap is safe. For the experienced grower, it is a fine old variety that has stood 

 the test of time and not been found wanting. Price list, page 35. 



Cooper. This variety has been very highly recommended during the last two 

 or three years, especially among Michigan plant men, as being a very wonderful 

 new variety. They claim it to be the biggest berry grown, wonderfully productive, 

 very high in quality, and so attractive in appearance that it commands the very 

 highest prices on any market. We have fruited this variety for two years now. In 

 the spring of 1924 the season was very wet and the foliage rusted badly, very much 

 worse than Premier and Chesapeake, which did not rust at all in the same field, 

 and considerably worse than Big Joe and Big Late. The plant growth is very 

 strong and vigorous and at fruiting time the plants give promise of producing a 

 very heavy crop of fruit. With the plants rusting badly as they did in the wet 

 season, 1924, they did not mature a very large crop of berries although there were 

 a few nice, big ones which were of fair quality, although not as good in quality as 

 McAlpin, Chesapeake, Big Late and Wm. Belt. The spring of 1925 was consider- 

 ably dryer and Cooper did better. In fact, except for Premier, it was about the 

 best of the early and medium early varieties that we were fruiting. It produced a 

 fairly good crop of big, handsome berries. The plants of Cooper have very long 

 roots which would help it stand up in a dry year. Cooper seems to be a strong grow- 



