TEMPLE • FAIRLAND • SPARKLE 
These three varieties will really grow. Temple, Sparkle and Fairland are all splendid varieties of strawberries for growth and production in addition to their ability to grow 
and produce in red stele infected soils. There is no reason to stop growing strawberries profitably even if your soil should become infected with red stele. One of the many 
things these three varieties have in common is their robust plant growth and free production of new runners. All of them are very resistant to red stele root rot. They have 
a common parent, Aberdeen, which has this red stele resistance in a very high measure, but is not as good in other respects as Temple, Sparkle and Fairland. For 
those sections that are bothered with red stele one or more of these three varieties could well be the nucleus around which a profitable strawberry industry could 
be continued or revived. 
Productiveness: Temple, Sparkle and Fairland rank with the best like Premier, Catskill and Midland. It would be difficult to rate them in productiveness. 
Temple has made outstanding yields in Maryland, New Jersey, New England and some of the mid-western states. Sparkle in New York and New England has 
been a very heavy producer with extra good yields also in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Fairland in two four-year tests in Massachusetts out yielded both 
Premier and Catskill; recent reports indicate heavy yields in Michigan, Indiana a^d Ohio. All three varieties are very heavy producers. 
Ripening Season: All three varieties ripen midseason to late; Temple and Faiiand ripening at about the same time, with Sparkle just a few days 
later; all three bearing over a long ripening season. Sparkle having a very \onh late ripening period. 
Adaptation: Results to date indicate that these varieties will be at their best in about the following areas: Fairland, all of the northern states as 
far west as the Mississippi Valley and as far south as central Pennsylvania, Cjhio and Indiana; Sparkle, all of New England, New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania. In the same latitude Sparkle is good farther west but apparently not as universally good as in the east. Temple, m 
widely adapted than either Sparkle or Fairland; Well adapted in all the noilhern states as far south as Virginia and Kentucky and as 1 
west as the Mississippi Valley. 
Being very heavy producers all of these varieties need springy, moist soil to size and mature the tremendous crops of fruit, but 
even on lighter soils there is hardly ever any difficulty in getting a salisfactory fruiting row. 
Sparkle Berries — 
How They Sbirxe! 
TEMPLE berrieB ave, 
Q holding. Temple berries 
ither Sparkls oi Fairland. 
irry in eastetn Maryland, 
me the most widely grown 
rily and ia of good quality, 
i spreading rapidly north 
berries have a 
beautiful bright color, almost as 
light as Blakemore, and darken 
very little on holding. They are 
very attractive m the package 
and are firm enough for shipping 
moderate distances. In one sec- 
tion of Michigan where a con- 
siderable acreage was marketed 
they were well rsceived by buy- 
ers. Fairland berries average 
larger in size than Sparkle and 
Blakemore. Bear in mind that in 
two years out of four in the Massa- 
chusetts tests cited above. Fair- 
land produced over 10.000 quaris 
per acre, with an average of over 
7,500 quarts per acre for the four 
Price List page 31. 
SPARKLE berries are round, 
deep red in color clear through 
the berry, with a shiny sparkling 
skin which makes them very at- 
tractive. Sparkle berries are only 
medium in size eve' vhere it is 
best adapted. When own as far 
south as Maryland, Sparkle ber- 
ried are rather soft. Howi 
New York State they are firm 
enough for nearby markets 
are rated very high as a freezing 
berry. We believe no one berry 
will ever replace Premier 
ly. but if furiher trial establish 
the hardiness of Sparkle this 
variety will be grown instead of 
Premier in many areas where it 
IS best adapted. Every northern 
berry grower should try Sparklt 
Introduced several years ago by the New York 
Experiinent 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 foU- 
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 
shipmdnt and for local markets; moderately produc- 
^^1' E^*^^y ^^^^ qzea\ productiveness compared 
with Premier and Catskill may explain its somewhat 
limited planting. Culver is s real good berry and de- 
serves to be tried more generally. Price list, page 31. 
REDCROP 
A new variety, released by the New Jersey Sta- 
tion m 1950. Plant growth quite vigo 
new runner plants freely. Plants here were moder- 
ately productive, although in New Jersey yields 
of from eight to ten thousand quarts per acre have 
been reported. Berries medium in size, rather 
dark, about like Temple but more uniform in 
shape. Quality good, but not high, about like 
Premier. In 1950, a wet year, foliage showed some 
leaf spot and quite severe rotting of fruit. We did 
not fruit it in 1951. Well worth trying a Uttle 
farther north than Maryland. Price list page 31. 
