REDSTAR 
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Extreme lateness in ripening and bearing makes any good variety valuable for a number of reasons. 
(1) It enables the home gardner to enjoy fresh strawberries long after the regular season is over. 
(2) It stretches out your income from the sale of the berries two or three weeks or more. 
(3) Many times very late berries, especially good ones like Redstar, bring a higher price than equally good 
berries during the rush of the season. 
(4) It spreads out the labor problem. The commercial grower with Redstar can handle a greater volume of 
berries with the same number of pickers and other necessary help because they work at it over a longer 
period. 
Throughout most of the northern states, as far south as Virginia and as far west as the Mississippi 
Valley, Redstar has generally been very satisfactory. In some cases it has too much fasciation, 
which reduces the size and value of the berries. We believe we are reducing this trouble by careful 
rogueing. 
In plant growth Redstar is very robust, making large, strong plants and generally enough of 
them for a good fruiting row. On good soil the big, leathery Redstar leaves often get to be three 
inches or more in diameter. Very pretty. Redstar plants are very productive, although not quite as 
heavy bearers as Premier and Catskill. The first big berries are slightly ridged (see picture) with 
the later ones more uniform in shape. Berries are light in color and this light color is maintained on 
holding. The rather large bright green cap makes Redstar very showy and attractive in the package. 
The quality is excellent, exceeded only by two or three,- like Fairpeake and Fairfax. As a freezing 
berry, Redstar ranks very high. Redstar should be in every home garden to extend the season of 
large luscious berries fresh from the vines. It should be in all commercial plantings where adapted 
to keep the strawberry dollars rolling in long after they normally stop. 
We have some fine-, large Redstar plants but a smaller stock than we actually sold in 1950. 
So get your Redstar orders in early. Price list, page 31. 
(lemaJu A Laid ReAiiaA: 
Fulton Co., Ky., March 28, 1950. I bought plants from you 
three or four years ago with Redstar included, and after all the 
other berries were gone the Redstar was ready to eat. I ate 
berries every day for six weeks off a very small plot. 
Mrs. Leslie Bailey 
Washington Co., Va., June 9, 1950. I have had great 
success with Redstar and pretty good luck with the Premier. 
I have eight rows of Redstar and last year and this year I got 
twenty crates of berries from the Redstar alone (equals 10,000 
qts. per acre). The rows are 120 ft. long. I think the Redstar is 
the greatest plant ever grown. 
E. W. Sharrett 
Carroll Co., Ind., Feb. 1, 1950. We have had excellent 
results here in Indiana with Fairfax, Midland, Premier and 
Redstar. Redstar has best flavor frozen. 
Donald W. Brown 
Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, March 22, 1950. The strawberry 
plants I have been buying from you have been wonderful. 
Practically every one grows and produces bountiful crops of 
delicious berries, especially Premier and Redstar. I cannot 
recommend your plants too highly. 
Fred Sattler 
Lane Co., Oregon, July 14, 1950. The Redstar plants grew 
well and made a lot of extremely large berries that seemed to 
stand a lot of rough usage. The first berries to ripen were 
extremely large, and in production volume and looks they rival 
any of the local varieties. 
E. J. Dougherty 
REDSTAR BERRIES— Very Large, Very 
Pretty, Very Good. 
