SUPERFECTION STREAMLINER 
From early indications this fine new everbearer 
gives promise of becoming the best of all everbearers. 
While it has not had the terrific bally-hoo of Stream- 
liner we think it is a better variety. Superfection is 
by far the most vigorous growing everbearer that we 
have raised. For the summer and fall crop it fruits 
almost as persistently as Gem, both on the old and 
young plants. 
The berries are light, bright in color somewhat 
resembling Gem but not quite as uniform in shape. 
The size is about the same as Gem, but not quite as 
good in quality when eaten fresh from the vines. 
With sugar we doubt that you could detect any 
difference in quality. As a spring bearing kind we 
have not had enough experience with Superfection 
to have made up our minds as to its proper rating. 
We do not think it makes a good spring crop here, 
but probably is somewhat better than Gem in that 
respect. Because of the greater vigor of Superfection 
it may, in the long run, replace Gem to a consider- 
able extent. In fact, Superfection could almost be 
called an improved Gem. 
The areas where Superfection can be grown suc- 
cessfully have not definitely been worked out by 
experience, but like most other everbearers it will 
probably do best in the middle and northern states. 
We suggest Superfection as being well worthy of 
trial if you are going to set everbearers at all. We 
have a very nice stock of this fine new variety. Price 
list, page 31. 
Like a good ball player who has been over-praised 
and over-advertised, Streamliner has a lot to live 
down and to live up to. We believe Streamliner is a 
good everbearing variety, but hardly justifies all the 
extravagant things that have been claimed for it. In 
the production of summer and fall berries Stream- 
liner is less persistent than Gem and Superfection. 
The berries are rather round, as dark as Mastodon 
and when grown under good conditions have a 
bright shiny appearance. The quality is good — 
probably just as good as Gem. As grown here they 
are not as firm as Gem but as everbearers are grown 
usually for home gardens and local markets, it is 
probably firm enough to be satisfactory. 
Streamliner plant growth is much less vigorous 
than Superfection. With us it makes fewer plants 
than Gem. For the spring crop, Streamliner is better 
than Gem but not as good as Mastodon. It will bear 
a few very large handsome berries but the quantity 
has been very disappointing from the reports we have 
had on it. 
All everbearers are more fickle in their growth and 
production than regular spring fruiting kinds. Any 
of the four varieties we have listed under certain con- 
ditions and in certain years is capable of being the 
best. We do think that Gem and Mastodon of the 
older varieties and Superfection and Streamliner of 
the newer varieties are far ahead of any of the other 
everbearing kinds. It we had to rate these four we 
would group Gem and Superfection ahead of Stream- 
liner and Mastodon. We have a limited stock of 
Streamliner plants. Price list, page 31. 
BRUNE'S MARVEL- 
A 
WARNING! 
We list this variety with some hesitation because we consider it almost absolutely worth- 
less. It is an everbearer making blossoms rather profusely in summer and fall and producing 
a few berries which are of good quality, even high quality, but are so small and unattractive as 
to be very undesirable. Brune's Marvel does make plants much more freely than any other 
everbearing variety, in fact as many plants as any variety we know of, including Blakemore 
and Missionary. 
Brune's Marvel, possibly because it does make plants so freely, has been the means of a 
tremendous amount of mixture in everbearing variety stocks. The plant growth somewhat 
resembles Gem so this has made the mixtures much easier to persist. We have had offered to 
us fields of "Gem" which were really Brune's Marvel ; "Gem" from Tennessee has proved to 
be Brune's Marvel; local sales of "Gem" from one grower to another, even for stock plants, 
have proved to be Brune's Marvel. A large shipment of "Mastodon" from another southern 
state proved to be Brune's Marvel. There is in this area this year, 1950, one large field of plants 
labelled "Streamliner" which are really Brune's Marvel. Other mixtures in everbearers 
include Gibson or Parson's Beauty for Mastodon, with just enough Mastodon in the lot to 
show a few blossoms. And as a final illustration we cite our own purchase of 5,000 
"Mastodon" from a northern state in 1949. These were nice plants and grew wonderfully but 
there is not a Mastodon or any kind of everbearer in the lot. If you really want everbearers and 
the varieties you select, extreme care should be taken in purchasing your plants. We have 
comparatively small stocks of all the everbearers but the ones that we do have and are 
offering for sale are true to name. 
We are not listing Brune's Marvel in our price list, but if you want a few plants for com- 
parison we will sell them as follows : 25 plants for $1 .00 ; 50 plants for $1 .75 ; and 100 plants for 
$3.00. You should under no circumstances buy more than 100 plants of this variety. 
