Why Crow Them? 



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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. 



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. However, 

 don't allow statements like "Three big 

 crops in eighteen months!" lead you into 

 planting everbearers commercially until 

 you have tried out a few hundred or less. 

 The total yield in certain seasons and loca- 

 tions may be disappointing. 



Some Everbearing varieties, especially 

 Green Mountain, Mastodon and Gemzata 

 make a very good regular spring crop in 

 addition to the summer and fall berries. 



How To Crow Them? 



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 

 been recorded. 



REMARKS REGARDING REDSTAR 



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"Some of my berries were mammoth, especially Redstar." 



Mr. E. W. Day, Litchfield Co., Conn,, Jan. 16, 1945 

 "My Redstar plants that fruited last year were fine." 



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." 



Mr. Irvin A, Markley, Montgomery Co., Pa., Sept. I, 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 



fCauf/on — lofe var/ef/es are more ///ce/y fo f\in into dry weafher at fruif'ing lime 

 than early ones. If irrigation is not available be sure to select rich, moist soil for 

 your Redstar,) 



