REDSTAR 



The Best Very Late and 



the Latest Very Good Strawberry 



With Redstar you can have fancy berries to use or sell ten days after other berries are gone. This 

 fact is the most valuable single attribute of Redstar — to extend the season for fancy fruit. Almost 

 equally important is the fact that you are sure to get a crop. Redstar blooms so late that it is never killed 

 by late frost. 



The first berries are very large and wedge shaped. Later berries are mostly round-conic. Redstar 

 berries are very fine in quality. They have an attractive bright red color which darkens very little on hold- 

 ing. Where a good bed is made Redstar is extremely productive and the berries average large in size, 

 firm enough for shipping and attractive enough to sell well. Because it is so late Redstar should be grown 

 where ample moisture is available at fruiting time, either from naturally moist soil or irrigation. 



Until 1956 no virus free Redstar plants were available. Stocks had become so weakened that it was 

 almost impossible to get a good fruiting row. Virus free plants are now available and it is easy to get a 

 wonderful fruiting row with big, healthy, beautiful foliage. 



Redstar has had another weakness — fasciation. In this several fruiting stems apparently merge 

 forming a broad flat stem and the berries broaden and twist, making them very undesirable. Our new 

 virus free stocks show far less of this than the old strains, although there is still more than we like to see. 



If you are a commercial grower you can 

 stretch your season and handle a far 

 greater volume of berries with a given 

 amount of help. If you are a home gar- 

 dener you can stretch the season and feed 

 your family wonderful desserts many days 

 after other berries have called it a season. 

 This new virus free Redstar stock will not 

 disappoint you. Price List page 32. 



RED RICH 



Red Rich produces the largest plant of all the everbearers. The foliage is most beautiful. Red Rich 

 makes far less plants than Superfection, even under the best of conditions. Asa spring cropper we have 

 not found Red Rich of much value. The berries are good, in fact supreme in quality, but the plants are 

 not highly productive and the berries, while they resemble Fairfax, in general are duller, rougher and 

 not at all attractive. 



Some reports rate Red Rich as outstanding 

 among all the everbearers in all-around value. 

 Our experience puts it well ahead of all others 

 in delicious dessert quality, but we have not 

 found it to be as productive as Superfection and 

 good strains of Gem. Our stock comes direct from 

 the introducer. Price List page 32. 



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