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TEMPLE • FAIR 
These three varieties will really grow. Temple, Sparkle and Fedrland are all splendid var 
and produce in red stele infected soils. There is no reason to stop growing strawberries p i 
things these three varieties have in common is their robust plant growth and free produd 
a common parent, Aberdeen, which has this red stele resistance in a very high mea: 
those sections that are bothered with red stele one or more of these three varieties c 
be continued or revived. 
Productiveness: Temple, Sparkle and Fairland rank with the best like Premier i 
Temple has made outstanding yields in Maryland, New Jersey, New England and i 
' been a very heavy producer with extra good yields also in New Jersey and Penn \ 
Premier and Catskill; recent reports indicate heavy yields in Michigan, Indiai s 
Ripening Season: All three varieties ripen midseason to late; Temple and - 
later; all three bearing over a long ripening season. Sparkle having a very j 
Adaptation: Results to date indicate that these varieties will be at their be i 
far west as the Mississippi Valley and as far south as central Pennsylvani 
Jersey, Pennsylvania. In the same latitude Sparkle is good farther west tn 
widely adapted than either Sparkle or Fairland; well adapted in all the 
west as the Mississippi Valley. 
Being very heavy producers all of these varieties need springy, m I 
even on lighter soils there is hardly ever any difficulty in getting i 
Temple 
(reduced) 
TEMPLE berries average large in 
size, attractive in appearance (see picture) 
becoming dark on holding. Temple berries 
are firmer than either Sparkle or Fairland. 
As a shipping berry in eastern Maryland, 
Temple has become the most widely grown 
of all varieties even on soil not infected 
with red stele. Temple berries are very 
good in quality, better than Premier and 
Catskill, not as good as Fairfax and 
Fairpeake. Temple has become very 
popular very quickly in this area 
because it will grow always, pro- 
duces heavily and is of good quality. 
Its fame is spreading rapidly north 
and west. The one objection to grow- 
ing Temple in big acreages is that it 
is not well liked as a freezing berry, 
although sometimes accepted by 
processors in connection with other 
varieties. Temple has saved a profit- 
able strawberry industry around 
Pittsville, Md., and lower Delaware. 
Price List page 31. 
FAIRLAND I 
beautiful bri : 
light as Blal^:i 
very little oib 
very attractir 
and are firm K 
moderate diic 
tion of MicljJ 
siderable ac in 
they were w ( 
ers. Fairlan !, 
larger in sijill 
Blakemore. '. % 
two years ou 1 1 
chusetts tesi 'X 
land produc( !) 
per acre, wil iU 
7,500 quarts 111 
years. Price is 
CULVER 
Introduced several years ago by the New York 
Experiment Station 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 foli- 
age, and very few make larger, brighter, more hand- 
some berries. Quality is not high but sufficiently good 
for a commercial berry; firm enough for over-night 
shipment and for local markets; moderately produc- 
tive. Possibly lack of great productiveness compared 
with Premier and CatskiU may explain its somewhat 
limited planting. Culver is s real good berry and de- 
serves to be tried more generally. Price list, page 31. 
