SroeSihea/ieSiA, 
Everbearing strawberries make a delight- 
ful and useful crop for the home garden. 
They have become very popular in recent 
years. 
You don't have to wait very long. No 
other fruit crop can touch Everbearing 
strawberries for quick returns. Plants are 
set in March or April. Berries are ripening 
from August to November of the same 
year. 
Strawberries provide one of the best of 
all sources of Vitamin C (which cannot be 
stored in the body). Everbearing varieties 
make possible a continuing and pleasing 
source of this vitamin all through late sum- 
mer and fall. 
Although they have been grown for 
many years, they still have a novelty ap- 
peal. Lots of people still get a real kick 
out of having nice fresh strawberries from 
their own vines, so far out of the regular 
season. 
They have a good record as a money 
crop. Growers who had fairly heavy 
yields of berries in small garden plots 
found the surplus so easy to sell at good 
prices that they increased their plantings. 
Now many fall berries are shipped profit- 
ably even to wholesale markets. 
Some Everbearing varieties, especially 
Green Mountain, Mastodon and Gemzata 
make a very good regular spring crop in 
addition to the summer and fall berries. | 
Everbearing varieties during the first few 
weeks must build up the strength and 
vitality to produce fruit this year as well 
as to continue growth. 
Set good strong plants on well prepared 
land and set them early on soil that is re- 
tentive of moisture or where water can be 
applied or conserved by mulch. 
Cut off the spring blossoms as soon as 
they appear and remove the summer blos- 
som clusters at each hoeing until about 
the middle of July. 
Everbearers give a greater response in 
fall fruit production to liberal applications 
of stable manure broadcast before planting 
than to any one thing we can mention. 
Everbearers are often grown by the hill 
system, as it is thought the plants produce 
more fruit if runners are removed. Where 
this system is used plants may be set 
closer together. Plants 18 inches apart in 
rows 2 feet apart are not too close for hill 
culture. 
Yields. Everbearing plants set early on 
good, moist soil should yield one pint or 
more per plant during late summer and 
fall. Much better yields are often obtained. 
Yields as high as 2 quarts per plant have 
I been recorded. 
REMARKS REGARDING REDSTAR 
"Some of my berries were mammoth, especially Redstar." 
Mr. E. W. Day, Litchfield Co., Conn., Jan. 16, 1945 
"The 2,500 Redstar plants 1 got from you in 1943 were picked last season 
and they really turned out." 
Mr. Richard Satterthwaite, Burlington Co., N. J., Jan. 24, 1945 
"The late Redstar blooms escaped the frost and bore more than any of my 
other varieties. Irvin A. Markley, Montgomery Co., Pa., Sept. 1, 1945 
"Our Redstar berries were the most vigorous of any and produced well 
with excellent quality. I think this is the coming late berry." 
Mr. L. B. Resseguie, Frederick Co., Va., Jan. 29, 1945 
(Caution — Late varieties are mote likely to run into dry weather at fruiting time 
than early ones. If irrigation is not available be sure to select rich, moist soil for 
your Redstar.) 
