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Premier — the king of profit-makers 



10. Size. Premier Berries are of large size and hold their size well throughout 

 their long bearing season. As every strawberry grower knows, this is an important 

 factor in getting a good price. 



11. Healthy Foliage. No variety has healthier foliage, and healthy foliage is 

 essential in maturing a nice crop of fruit. Two recent berry seasons here have given 

 us extremes in weather. One was very dry and one very wet. In the dry year we had 

 no rain during the entire picking season. That year most all of the varieties kept 

 good foliage but were severely injured by the drought. And in a field that had 

 nearly all the standard varieties and many of the newer ones like Eaton, Marvel, 

 Delicious, Big Late, Big Wonder and others, Premier was not only the best early 

 berry in the field, but discarding its early crop it was better than any mid-season 

 berry in the field, and discarding that, it was almost as good as any late berry in 

 the field except Chesapeake. The other year, which was one of the wettest straw- 

 berry seasons we have ever seen, a very large part of all the varieties rusted 

 severely, and the size and quality of the crop produced was almost in direct pro- 

 portion to the way the foliage resisted the rust. Under those conditions, there 



