EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 



Everbearing berries are grown because they are so good! Because they come out of the 

 regular season ! ! Because they come so quickly after planting. Because they are so easy to grow. 

 Because they are proving to be a gootl cash crop in many places. Because there is a regular spring 

 crop coming on after old man winter halts the fall picking. 



The amazing increase in tlie popularity of Everbearers has been due to their appeal as a 

 delightful and useful home garden crop and to their showing as a money crop. 



They are good! Some of the varieties have a high dessert quality and are good to eat right 

 off the vines. Others are just tart enough to need a little sugar to bring out their full flavor. 

 But having them out of season is the big thing. Berries in September — October — November— Berries 

 in the garden — fresh berries on the table — strawberry shortcake, berries to surprise your friends 

 and share with them. These are the things which first g^t people interested in Everbearers. 



They come so quickly. No other fruit crop can touch them for speedy action. .Just imagine 

 setting plants in March or April — and harvesting a crop from August to November of the same 

 year. They start bearing only a few weeks after the plants are set. 



Everbearers are easy to grow. See next page for details, but remember here that any good 

 garden or farm soil that will grow spring berries or other garden crops successfully will produce 

 Everbearing strawberries satisfactorily. 



A good cash crop! Here's how it started. A few plants did well in a garden. More were 

 set the following year. These yielded enough for a surplus. The berries were so easily sold at 

 such good prices that larger plantings were made to grow berries for local market. Now many 

 fall berries are shipped even to wholesale markets. Our own last shipment in the fall (1940) 

 was in November. They were mostly Green Mountain, shipped to Baltimore and they sold for 

 20 cents per pint. (In marketing we have found pint baskets more suitable for Everbearers than 

 quarts.) But we caution growers not to jump into Everbearers blindly as a business. Try a 

 few hundred, or even a few dozen first. If these do well it should be logical to expand. 



The spring crop. This gives the grower a second chance. If the expected summer and fall 

 crop does not come up to expectations (and fall crops are not as sure as spring crops) it isn't 

 as bad as it might be. There's a spring crop coming along just as if you had planted regular 

 spring varieties in the first place. Mastodon and Green Mountain are the best spring croppers 

 among the Everbearers. 



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