Yielding 



Plants Set in April 

 Start Bearing in July and 

 Continue Until Freezing Weather 



In many cases the everbearers are the most useful and valuable 

 of strawberries. No home garden can be complete without them. 

 The small amount of additional attention they require is repaid 

 many times in fresh delicious berries all through the late summer 

 and fall. Any one who takes pride in their garden will find great 

 pleasure in having large, attractive strawberries out of the regular season. Be sure to have at 

 least one of the everbearers in your garden this year. You will have plenty of fresh berries 

 — some for your neighbors, too. 



The Market Gardener and the commercial berry grower will find the everbearers a valu- 

 able addition to their regular list. The prices of Strawberries during the late summer and fall 

 are always high for good grade fruit, thus one who has moist springy soil which contains an 

 abundance of humus or has the facilities for irrigation, would be in a position to realize good 

 profits from everbearers. As with all strawberries, the everbearers require an abundance of 

 moisture if they are to develop fruit to a large size, this should be kept in mind when se- 

 lecting the site for an everbearing field. Only moist, springy soil, which contains sufficient or- 

 ganic matter to conserve the moisture, should be used, unless you have irrigation. With irri- 

 gation, any fertile, well drained soil will be suitable. 



1. Varieties — Mastodon and Gem are the best varieties for either home garden or com- 

 mercial market. They are large, firm and productive. Making good yields during the sum- 

 mer and fall and producing heavily in the spring. There are other varieties superior to them 

 in flavor but are so lacking in other desirable characteristics we cannot recommend them. 



2. Plants and Planting — As the everbearers are under the dual strain of making growth 

 and producing fruit, the plants should be strong and vigorous and should be planted just as 

 early as possible. This enables the plants to become developed earlier and will produce more 

 and better fruit. Planting instructions page 6. 



3. Blossoms — All blossoms should be removed until the plants become well developed, this 

 is usually about the middle of July. If blossom removal is continued longer the fruit will be 

 larger but total yield will be materially reduced. 



4. Training — For largest size and heaviest fall production the hill system, in which all 

 runners are kept off, will develop very large individual plants and all the effort of the plant 

 goes into the production of fruit instead of the production of runners. The runners may be 

 removed by hand which requires much hand labor and is slow, tiresome work or by using a 

 length of 7 or 8 inch stove pipe with the lower edge sharpened and a wooden handle nailed 

 in the upper end. This is pushed down firmly over each plant and all runners are cut off with 

 one motion. This is a great time and labor saver where soil is reasonably free from stones. 

 The plants should be set 15 inches apart in rows 2 to 2y 2 feet apart. The spaced row gives 

 very satisfactory yields and good sized fruit. The plants are set 15 inches apart in rows 3 to 

 SV 2 feet apart, the first runner plants are encouraged to root and are spaced diagonally from 

 the mother plant. After these are developed all runners are removed as they appear. We 

 have seen some very good fall crops from everbearers grown in matted rows when the plants 

 were not too dense and the weather during the late summer and fall, was favorable. How- 

 ever, with very dense rows and with insufficient moisture we have seen them not worth pick- 

 ing. For the matted row plants are set 15 to 18 inches apart in rows 3% feet apart. If ever- 

 bearers are grown in matted rows, care should be taken that they do NOT become too densely 

 set. 



W A Y Z A T A Tnis is Probably the best flavored everbearing variety, however, they 

 are very poor plant makers thus good for hill system, we have had them 

 in our test plots for many years but have never listed them before as we hardly believed they 

 were worth the high cost of producing the plants. The berries are large, have a very delicious 

 flavor and very productive. If you wish to try them we have some fine plants to offer this 

 year. 



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