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tkill is very healthy. In Maryland it shows a little 
U makes a very vigorous plant growth with plenty of 
tits may become a little too thick unless some thinning 
>/ Catskill plants is not so great as formerly. In some 
1 able to grow Catskill successfully. In others Catskill 
as are unfavorable. It is said that this reduction in 
selection of planting stock be made in order to find 
ts original vigor can be maintained Catskill is such a 
appears that Catskill has slipped, Temple, Sparkle, 
rieties to try as replacements. In addition to that list 
ty be tried to replace Catskill in the southern part of 
Aroma is or has been successfully grown, 
ting the vigor of Catskill plant growth dissuade you 
p" and Catskill is still the best midseason berry. We 
1 and we know that on the average our Catskill plants 
year before. We believe it will pay you to set some 
CATSKILL COMMENTS 
Montgomery Co., Missouri, Jan. 14, 1949. 
"Catskill is a good berry hero." — Chas. W. 
Lingenfelter. 
Hillsboro Co., N. H., Feb. 9, 1949. "I have 
been buying plants from you for years and have had 
very good luck with them. I have had Dorsett, Fair- 
fax, Premier, Catskill, Chesapeake and two kinds of 
your everbearers, Green Mountain and Mastodon. 
They are all good, but I don't think any of them can 
come up to the Catskill." — Fred A. Hutchinson. 
Somerset Co., N. J., Aug. 8, 1949. "The Cats- 
kill plants we purchased from you last year were 
excellent." — Robert M. Anger. 
Monroe Co., N. Y., April 6, 1949. "Your plants 
are tops and true to name. I've picked eight quarts 
of Catskill in ten minutes at their peak. Catakills for 
me!" — Benj. DeStefano. 
Coshocton Co., Ohio, March 18, 1949. "I am 
enclosing order and check for 500 Catskill and 500 
Fairfax plants. I have been ordering plants from you 
for several years and find that Fairfax and Catskill 
do the best for me. Please do not substitute." — J. E. 
Van Kannel. 
Harrison Co., Ohio, Jan. 24, 1949. "In 1947, I 
put out 200 Premier and 200 Catskill. From these 
400 plants I picked 440 quarts piled up until another 
berry would not lay on them, and the nicest berries 
that ever came out of any patch. While all of them 
were very nice the Catskill has Premier beat for 
both size and productiveness." — Ernest Karr. 
Lancaster Co., Penna., Feb. 14, 1949. "We 
are growing about an acre of strawberries every 
year and getting most of the plants from Allen's. We 
test out some new ones every year and have just 
about decided not to buy any new kinds until they 
are listed and rated in Allen's catalog. Several years 
ago we got Scarlet Beauty, Robinson and also 
Kardinal King and since fruiting them in 1947 and 
1948, we find they are all one and the same. This 
is a very good berry but can't come up to the Cats- 
kill here. In June, 1948, we picked some of the 
largest and finest Midland and Catskill we ever saw 
or grew. I am very glad Allen's tell all about the 
faults of the berries as well as the good features." — 
John S. Brenneman. 
Raleigh Co., W. Va., March 10, 1949. "I would 
like to have 1,000 Catskill plants as I am out of that 
kind of berry and I have not had any real honest-to- 
goodness good-to-eat berries since, and the Catskill 
produces more for me than any other."— H. B. 
McKinney. 
a L fl « J flftM This variety is no good as far south as Mary- 
**Oei CloQrl land. It is vigorous, healthy grower and very 
productive of large, light colored attractive berries. But they are 
of poor quality and very soft — being more subject to sunscald 
following a shower at picking time than any variety we have 
grown. In the north where grown on heavy soils and close to 
market the large size, heavy yielding and attractive appearance 
of the berries have made Aberdeen a big profit maker for some 
growers. Aberdeen is very resistant to the redstele disease. 
Aberdeen has been used to breed improved redstele reistant 
varieties, notable among which are Temple, Sparkle and Fair- 
land. Price list, page 31. 
Q_|,L£* I A seedling of Aberdeen, originated by Dr. 
rarnrinaer L Harold Clark ttnd introduce d several 
years ago by the New Jersey Station. Pathfinder is a vigorous 
grower, making large strong plants but not making plants in as 
great numbers for the last few years as they did formerly. Path- 
finder plants are very productive. Pathfinder should be grown 
from central New Jersey north as a second early midseason 
variety. On heavy northern soils where it is adapted, Pathfinder 
berries run medium to large in size, unusually uniform in shape, 
firm enough for local or nearby market, of good quality and 
attractive in appearance. Pathfinder is not good in the south or 
lower middle states. Even in the north where Pathfinder is a 
volume producer of satisfactory berries we believe that Temple, 
Sparkle and Fairland would be more profitable. Price list, 
page 31. 
