DIXIELAND 



Better than Blakemore 

 in Many Ways. 



Comparison with Blakemore is one of the best ways to describe Dixieland. 

 Plant Growth: Both varieties make a very fine plant growth, Dixieland frequently making fewer plants 

 but larger, stronger ones than Blakemore. 

 Season: Both varieties ripen very early. 



Productiveness: In most tests to date Dixieland has outyielded Blakemore. 



Shipping: Both varieties are quite firm. If there is any difference Dixieland is slightly firmer than Blake- 

 more for berries of equal size. Dixieland's parents, Midland x Tenn. Shipper, should produce a variety 

 of unusual firmness — -Dixieland has it. 



Color: Both varieties are an attractive light red, Dixieland being very slightly darker than Blakemore. 

 Both varieties retain their light color on holding. 



Quality: The varieties are equally good in quality, both being somewhat tart. 



Size: Dixieland berries are definitely larger than the Blakemore, and have sold well ahead of Blakemore 

 on different markets. 



Processor: Blakemore has long been a favorite processing berry, but we are fully convinced that once 

 it becomes better known, Dixieland will be fully as good if not better for freezing and other processing uses. 

 Virus free: Our plants of both varieties are grown from virus, free plants. 



Adaptation: Both Blakemore and Dixieland are fancy shipping berries for the southern and middle states. 

 Both are adapted to some areas of the northern states but generally Dixieland seems to be gaining 

 favor in the north more than Blakemore. During the 1958 shipping season we visited the North Collins 

 Fruit Market in western New York. On the day we were there, there w©ie more different lots of Dixieland 

 being offered than of any other 



variety and the average price paid w 



was higher than any other variety. *&. jSM WL. ,-. /£ 



On the following day we visited 

 the fruit area east of Rochester, N.Y., 

 where we saw a beautiful crop of 

 Dixieland just coming on, on the 

 farm of Costich Bros. We believe 

 in normal weather when Dixieland 

 berries are first ready to pick a 

 grower could wait two to three days 

 and still lose very few berries. 

 Where labor is short and weather 

 is bad this ability to stand up is 

 valuable in helping protect your 

 profits. Price list page 32. 



TENNESSEE 



SHIPPER 



The Firmest Berries 

 we have ever seen 



Tennessee Shipper is a Mission- 

 ary x Blakemore cross, introduced in 

 1941 by the Tennessee Experiment * 

 Station. It is a very vigorous grower, making 

 larger, stronger individual plants than Blakemore 

 but usually not quite as many. 



The plants are very productive. The berries 

 ripen early, about with Blakemore, and are the 

 firmest of any variety we know. They are so 

 firm that picking may be neglected for several 

 days at a time and still be picked and shipped 

 to market with practically no loss. This is im- 

 portant in these days of labor shortage. Ten- 

 nessee Shipper berries are excellent for freezing. 

 They are rather tart in quality and in dry season 

 tend to run down in size, except on very springy 

 land. As a southern shipping berry our virus 

 free Tennessee Shipper plants will make a vigor- 

 ous fruiting bed and produce berries that are 

 really hard. Price List page 32. 



KLONMORE High Quality 

 Shipping Berry for the Deep South 



Klonmore is a cross of Klondyke x Blakemore 

 In vigor of plant growth it equals either of its 

 free growing parents. In productiveness Klon- 

 more is better than Klondyke, probably nearly 

 equal to Blakemore. Klonmore berries are about 

 equal in size to either Blakemore or Klondyke 

 but are better in quality than either of them. 

 In fact Klonmore is the only high quality long 

 distance shipping berry that the south has ever 

 had. Klonmore territory is more limited, being 

 grown successfully in coastal areas of the gulf 

 states and the Atlantic coast states and as far 

 north as South Carolina. We have this year a 

 very fine stock of virus free Klonmore plants. 

 Price List page 32. 



