A fine cluster of Mastodon 
berries 
Everbearing Strawberries 
A Real Prize in the Family Garden 
BIG LUSCIOUS strawberries can be had all through late summer and fall 
until freezing weather. This idea of having strawberries out of the regular season 
has become so popular that thousands now grow them regularly. It is no longer an 
experiment. Have some for yourself. 
They start bearing only a few weeks after plants are set. Plants set in March 
or April start bearing in July and August. This is quicker than most vegetable crops 
are harvested and much quicker than any other fruit crop. 
A fine crop the following spring is produced by most Everbearing varieties. 
When conditions are favorable a third crop — the second fall crop — is made within 
eighteen months after plants are set. 
Better varieties have made Everbearers a money crop. More growers every 
year are finding them profitable. Gem and Mastodon are the best, with Green Mountain 
and Wayzata well liked in Northern States. In the South, Everbearers are suggested 
for home gardens only; but in the Middle and Northern states they are worth trying 
commercially. Where conditions are right they will pay. Even if local conditions are 
unsuitable or weather conditions unfavorable for the fall crop, the spring crop is pretty 
good insurance against loss. Selling the berries is easy. Roadside markets provide a 
good retail outlet, wholesale dealers like them. As this is written (November 10, 1938) 
our own shipments of Gem are bringing 25c per pint in Baltimore and Philadelphia. 
Fine Results from Gem in Minnesota 
Beltrami Co., Minn. Nov. 9th, 1938. I was very 
well pleased with the plants I got from you last spring. 
Two days after I set them out we had a sleet storm 
followed by three inches of snow and a hard freeze. 
I thought my plants would be all gone. However all 
of the Gem lived and most of the Mastodon. The 
Gem also had more berries than the Mastodon by 
far, so it looks like the Gem is the best Everbearer for 
this part of the countrv. Your plants have proved to 
be O. K— Mr. E. B. Fay. 
Gem Excellent in Maine 
Cumberland Co., Maine. Sept. 5, 1938, We have 
had an abnormally wet season. I set around 3,250 
plants and, as usual with Gem, we weathered the gale. 
I have already picked 1,000 pints and should have 
almost two months to go yet. One year I picked to 
mid-Xovember. I have secured a minimum of 20c per 
pint wholesale and 25c retail and am usually booked 
ahead for the next picking. I look for better than 
2,000 pints from this block this first season. I never 
have to hunt for a market. My roadside markets (2) 
took all I got in August and the best market in town 
takes all of them now. Expect to set around 15,000 
next year and I can assure you they won't be anything 
but Gem. — Mr. Bassett P. Perkins. 
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