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Everbearing strawberries make a delightful and useful crop for the home garden. They are quite 
popular with those who like novelties. Cost of production per quart of berries is usually fairly high, 
but those who are willing to put out a little extra time and money can have berries out of season and 
can have them in the late summer and fall of the same year plants are set. "Gem plants purchased 
from you last year provided us beautiful good berries until freezing weather in November. The other 
varieties give indication of a good crop this year." Peter F. Remsen, Knox Co., Ohio, March 15, 1949. 
That's the beauty of everbearers — berries out of season, berries just a few weeks after plants are set. 
GEM MASTODON 
In our opinion Gem is the best of aU the ever- 
bearing varieties if the summer and fall crop only 
is considered. The new Superfection may prove to 
be better after further trial. As a spring cropper Gem 
is very nearly worthless in this section. Where the 
plants are set early under good conditions Gem makes 
a vigorous plant growth with plenty of new runners. 
The plants are smaller but much more productive 
than Mastodon in this area. 
Gem berries are very pretty; they have a fairly 
uniform shape (see picture) and light bright in color 
and do not turn dark on holding. The berries are 
somewhat tart but have a very pleasing flavor. Gem 
plants will produce berries on new runner plants 
much more freely than any other everbearer we have 
seen except possibly Superfection. Reports that we 
have indicate that in favorably located regions where 
everbearers are grown as a money crop Gem is gain- 
ing on, if it has not already surpassed, Mastodon. If 
you want to try just one everbearer try Gem, from 
the middle south to the far north. It is certainly our 
favorite. Price list, page 31. 
This variety makes a very rugged plant growth with 
much larger, stronger individual plants than Gem 
and will probably survive and grow under adverse 
conditions where Gem would fail. Mastodon has 
probably been grown more widely than any other 
everbearer in spite of the fact that the summer and 
fall crop is not as good as Gem. The spring crop is 
far better than Gem. Mastodon is really a pretty good 
spring fruiting sort. Most likely in the past some 
folks who got unsatisfactory fall yields from Mastodon 
would not condemn it too strongly after seeing the 
nice spring crop which Mastodon usually produces. 
Mastodon berries are not quite as good in quality 
as Gem and much less attractive in appearance 
because they are not as uniform in shape and color. 
The berries have a tendency to ripen unevenly with 
the underside green after the top has become fully 
red. Farther north Mastodon is a much more consistent 
producer of fall berries than it is here in Maryland. 
Where it is adapted Mastodon frequently produces 
big crops of nice looking, good quality berries which 
have given a lot of pleasure in berry yields and have 
produced good profits for some growers. Price list, 
page 31. 
