POCAHONTAS 



The most Vigorous Grower we have ever seen 



Pocahontas is the most vigorous growing variety of strawberries 

 that we have ever seen. Probably no variety since Dorsett and Fairfax 

 were introduced has had so much written about it as has Pocahontas. 

 Unequalled vigor, we believe, is the basis for most of the attention 

 Pocahontas has had. We are free to admit that our own good opinion 

 of Pocahontas increased 500% from the beginning to the end of the 

 1955 berry season. At first we considered Pocahontas just another 

 good variety with exceptional vigor. At the end of the season we had 

 added the fact that it is a terrific producer of good size, firm, bright, 

 beautiful berries which made us more money than any other variety 

 in 1955. 



In quality Pocahontas is rather tart, about like Blakemore. If it 

 proves to be a good processor Pocahontas, in our opinion, has a 

 brilliant future. 



Dr. M. M. Parker of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, Norfolk, 

 Va., has worked with Pocahontas for several years. It was due largely 

 to his tests at that Station that the decision was made to introduce it 

 and to name it Pocahontas, for the Indian girl so prominent in the 

 history of that section. 



Dr. Parker and his associates are quite enthusiastic about the pos- 

 sibility 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 the regular procedure for growing and fruiting straw- 

 berry plants. 



Our own 1955 yield of Pocahontas was 10,000 quarts per acre, from 

 heavy thickly set beds. In spite of this, average berry size was large. 

 The berries themselves were light red with a cap that stayed green so 

 that Pocahontas in the crate was a very attractive sales item. It cer- 

 tainly paid off for us this season. (See colored picture on insert.) 



Berry growers from North Carolina to New York should try Poca- 

 hontas. You just can't afford to pass it by without a look-see. 



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. 



In 1951 and 1952 in U.S.D.A. plantings at Beltsville, Md. the average 

 yield was at the rate of 11,376 qts. per acre. In tests of five leading 

 varieties, including Premier and Blakemore, at the Kansas State Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kans., in 1955 Pocahontas led all the others in total 

 yield, with 13,788 qts. per acre, with Dixieland second with 8,393 qts. 

 At the Kentucky Experiment Station in 1955 Pocahontas with a yield 

 of 12,501 qts. per acre led aU varieties except Tennessee Beauty which 

 yielded at the rate of 14,611 qts. per acre. 



As usual, our Pocahontas plants this year are very fine. You should 

 try some of them. We have them for you, free from virus and full of 

 vigor. Price list page 32. 



