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TEMPLE 

 SPARKLE • FAIRLAND 



These three varieties have proved life-savers to the strawberry industry in 

 areas where the soil has become badly infested with red stele. Although they are 

 not entirely immune they will usually thrive and produce profitably in red stele 

 infested soils where non-resistant varieties would either die or be weakened into 

 worthlessness. 



Temple, Sparkle and Fairland are distinctly different varieties but they have 

 many points in common other than red stele resistance. 



Seasoning of Ripening: All three ripen midseason to late, with Temple and Fairland 

 starting a few days ahead of Sparkle and all ripening over a long season. 



Plant Growth: All three make a vigorous plant growth with plenty of runners for an 

 adequate fruiting bed. 



Productiveness: Temple, Sparkle and Fairland are all very heavy yielders, ranking 

 with the very best in this resp)ect if grown under favorable conditions. 



Adaptation: All three varieties are best adapted to the middle and northern states, with 

 ^ Temple's best area as far south as Maryland and Vir- 



ginia. Fairland and Sparkle should not be grown 

 generally south of Pennsylvania, central New Jersey 

 and southern Ohio. Temple has made outstanding 

 yields in Maryland, New Jersey, New England and in 

 some of the mid-western states. Sparkle has been a 

 heavy producer in New York, New England, Penn- 

 sylvania and New Jersey where it was originated. 

 Excellent reports of good yields on Fairland come 

 from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and in two four-year 

 tests in Massachusetts it dutyielded both 

 Premier and Catskill. All three varieties will 

 give you a heavy crop but like all midseason 

 to late kinds they need a moist soil to size and 

 mature the large crops of fruit. 



Good ior home 

 and market 



CULVER 



Introduced several years ago 

 by the New York Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Geneva. It has always 

 been a puzzle to us why Culver 

 did not make more of a '*hit" 

 with berry growers generally. 

 Very few varieties that we know 

 make larger, stronger, more 

 beautiful foliage, and very few 

 make larger, brighter, more hand- 

 some berries. Quality is not high 

 but sufficiently good for a com- 

 mercial berry; firm enough for 

 over-night shipment and for local 

 markets; moderately productive. 

 Possibly lack of great productive- 

 ness compared with Premier and 

 Catskill may explain its some- 

 what limited planting. Culver is 

 a real good berry and deserves to 

 be tried more generally. Price 

 list page 31. 



