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Premier, introduced in 1915 before the First World War, has never missed 
bearing a good crop o£ berries. More records of high yields and profits have been 
made with Premier than with any other variety. Practically all of the better new 
varieties of today propogated at the U. S. D. A. and various Experiment Stations 
have "Premier blood" in their veins. 
Premier is the most popular and widely grown berry in all the northeastern 
part of the United States, reaching as far south as Virginia and Kentucky and west 
beyond the Mississippi River and north into Canada. 
Here is a typical letter from a good Premier grower: 
Crawford Co., Pa., March 2, 1951. '1 am writing this to tell you that I received 
1,000 Premier plants from you in 1949 and they really did produce a nice crop of berries 
for me in 1950. We picked 735 quarts of the nicest berries at one picking, and a total of 
2,000 quarts in all. We thought this was a real good turn out." Glenn Deeter. 
In detail here are some of the reasons for Premier's continued popularity: 
PLANT GROWTH, moderately vigorous and very healthy with scarcely a 
trace of any kind of disease. 
PRODUCTIVENESS, at the top. Equalled only by a few of the best like Catskill 
and three or four others. 
SURE CROPPER, if you get a good plant bed it just doesn't miss bearing a crop. 
Nearest frost proof of any variety in history. 
BERRIES, medium to large in size with the last of the tremendous crop running 
down in size toward the end of a dry season. Berries are bright and attractive, showing 
up well on the market, particularly those grown in northern areas. Quality is good, not 
up to Fairfax and Fairpeake but better than Blakemore, Robinson and similar varieties. 
Excellent for freezing, not the best but considered satisfactory by most processors. Premier 
berries are firm enough to ship m.oderate distances to market. When produced in the 
northern part of the Premier territory berries are usually firmer, brighter and of some- 
v/hat better quality thanr-when grown farther south. 
In some sections other varieties are beginning to replace Prem-ier in a limited way 
but this should be done only after a thorough try out of the new variety as compared with 
