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Fairfax plants for 1941. None better anywhere! 



FAIRFAX 



"My trade won't take other yarieties after they try Fairfax, so I had to order 

 all Fairfax this year". So writes Mr. S. W. Colton of Kane County, Illinois. And 

 that is not unusual! Except for the problem of stretehinff out the season, many 

 growers would go ALL FAIEFAXII 



Enthusiasm for Fairfax is greater than for any other rariety we have ever 

 known. It begins because the berries are so good — the best to eat of all straw- 

 berries. The enthusiasm continues and grows because the highest quality is 

 backed by so many other line things. 



From the yery beginning there has been no doubt that Fairfax would take 

 first place as a home garden berry, for roadside markets or for local trade. In 

 fact for any market where the consumer comes in direct contact with the grower. 

 As Fairfax gets quite dark on holding for seyeral days, it was thought that this 

 might hurt Fairfax as a shipping l)erry. It did at first, but people are learning 

 that these dark berries will hold up. That Fairfax has a delicious flayor that can 

 be had in no other berries. Fairfax is gaining fayor eyen as a shipping berry. 



The berries are beauties! When first ready 

 to pick, they have a rich, medium red color, 

 resembling Chesapeake at their best. They have 

 fairly prominent golden yellow seeds which help 

 protect the berries and add to their showiness. 

 After several days Fairfax berries turn quite 

 dark, almost purple, which may become a sort 

 of trademark. It is important at each picking 

 to get all the berries that are ready to pick. A 

 main disadvantage of the dark color is that 

 berries missed at one picking will still be firm, 

 but dark, at the next. These berries when mixed 

 with the lighter berries which are just ripe may 

 give an uneven or mottled appearance. 



In firmness, as well as quality. Fairfax stands 

 at the top. If picked carefully when first ripe, 

 we believe Fairfax will keep longer than any 

 other leading variety; not even excepting Blake- 

 more, the great Southern Shipping berry. 



Extra large size of the first berries is another 

 thing for which Fairfax is notable. The later 

 berries on the clusters are not quite as large, 



but it has been found that rich soil or heavy 

 manuring is quite effective in sizing all of the 

 Fairfax crop to a good marketable size. 



Plant growth of Fairfax is vigorous and 

 healthy. It is similar to Premier but the leaves 

 are generally a little larger, more cupped, and 

 a deeper green color. Plenty of plants are made 

 for a good fruiting bed in most cases and ou 

 very rich land some restriction of runners may 

 be helpful after a well spaced row has been 

 formed. 



Fairfax is a heavy cropper. It is not quite 

 aii heavy as Premier and Catskill as a rule, but 

 crops of 5.000 to S.OOO quarts per acre are not 

 unusual. We have obtained as many as 10.000 

 quarts per acre on a small plot. 



As with Dorsett. Fairfax gets its wonderful 

 •luality from its Royal Sovereign parent. From 

 Premier, the other parent. Fairfax gets health 

 and vigor of plant growth, productiveness and a 

 large amount of hardiness. 



