SUPERFECTION 
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The sensational results obtained with new varieties and new methods 
in the production of everbearers (see page 28) may and we hope will 
introduce a new era in the satisfaction and profits obtained from growing 
them. Superfection was used in achieving these results. After a second 
year's trial we are more convinced than ever that Superfection is the 
best everbearing variety we have ever grown. 
During the many years in which everbearers have been grown, the 
chief drawback has been lack of productiveness. Superfection goes a 
long way toward eliminating that weakness. It is most productive of late 
summer and fall berries — the out-of-season ones which are so desirable 
and so valuable. Mrs. R. G. Wyld of Monroe County, New York, in a 
letter dated April 29, 1950, reflects accurately our own experience with 
Superfection. "Just a word of appreciation to you for the fine Superfection 
strawberry plants you sent us earlier this year. We have just begun 
fruiting the bed of Allen's Superfection and find the yield and growth 
of the plants almost phenomenal for an everbearer. We find the Super- 
fection hardly distinguishable from our own Gem in size, shape and 
taste, although possibly more tart. On the first picking the yield was five 
times as great in quarts per plant, Superfection over Gem. We use your 
catalog much as a Bible on varieties with which we are not familiar." 
Superfection is supposed to be an improved Gem, and as Mrs. Wyld 
says it is very similar to Gem in all respects except yield. The berries are 
light in color, with a shiny skin which makes them very attractive in the 
package. They hold their light color with very little darkening. Where 
tried commercially the berries should be well received by consumers. 
In any attempt to grow everbearers seriously, all the leading varieties 
should be tested. However, if you must limit your plantings to one ever- 
bearer, we must recommend that you plant Superfection unless you have 
already grown one of the other kinds and found it entirely satisfactory. 
Price list, page 31. 
STREAMLINER 
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From the year of its introduction, Streamliner has had a lot to live up 
to and to live down. We doubt if any variety has ever been more extrava- 
gently ballyhoo-ed than Streamliner for the first three or four years. 
Streamliner is a good everbearing variety. Quart for quart, average 
Streamliner berries would probably be of better quality and larger than 
any one of the four leading everbearers described on these pages. It is 
fair as a spring cropper, better than Gem but much less desirable than 
Mastodon for that purpose. In our experience the main draw back to Streamliner has been lack of productive- 
ness. Under good everbearing conditions where total yields were much better, Streamliner could easily surpass 
some of the other varieties because of the excellence of the fruit that is produced. With us it ranks fourth among 
the best four. Its possibilities, however, make it rate a trial wherever everbearers are grown seriously. Price list, 
page 31. 
