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Everbearins Varieties of Strawberries 



FOR PLEASURE AND PROFIT 



There should always be some of these varieties planted in the home garden. 

 Think of it! Plenty of delicious fresh strawberries right from your own garden and 

 you can have strawberry shortcake or ice cream and all the other strawberry desserts 

 all through the summer and fall. This is easily possible, no special methods are 

 needed. Get good plants and follow a few simple directions (see pages 6 and 7) and 

 you will be surprised and delighted with the results. A few everbearing plants 

 should be grown wherever there is an available space for a garden, and it does not take 

 much, a few rows beside your driveway or a little corner in your back yard will be fine. 



We have many customers who have grown everbearing strawberries in a com- 

 mercial way for years and they have made quite a success of it. The things essential 

 to success in a commercial way is good springy land that will hold moisture well 

 throughout the summer, keeping the plants well hoed and cultivated, and having a 

 good market. 



Successful growers have told us they find a ready market at fancy prices at 

 hotels, local groceries, and they have always been ready sellers at roadside stands. 

 They are a good advertisement as many cars will stop when they see the berries and 

 quite often buy other fruit and vegetables also. 



Since the introduction of Mastodon many of our growers have received large 

 profits by shipping to the wholesale markets as the commission houses always have a 

 ready market for these large fancy berries. If conditions are favorable everbearers 

 are a good investment as a quick money crop, for you can set the plants in March or 

 April and harvest the berries during the summer and fall. 



Be sure to include some everbearers in your order for if you plant a few rows 

 along with your standard varieties they may pay, or more than pay the expenses on 

 your whole patch. In this way you can have a larger acreage with a smaller outlay 

 of cash. 



Mastodon has done away with a lot of the risk in raising everbearers, for if 

 conditions are bad or should you be unable to find a good market for the summer and 

 fall berries, they have proven to be an excellent spring fruiting variety, ripening with 

 Big Joe, are fully as attractive and will produce as many quarts per acre in fcheir 

 Spring crop alone. 



We have found that everbearers will do best in the hill system, for summer and fall 

 fruiting. Set plants 15 inches apart in the rows with rows 2 to 2V2 feet apart, and keep 

 all or nearly all the runners cut off, for the big strong individual plant always makes 

 more and larger berries than the plant that produces a lot of runner plants for the 

 efforts of the plant are then concentrated on fruit production. But when a large spring 

 crop is desired we find the matted row best. Keep the blossoms picked off_ until 

 July, this will allow the plants to make an abundant plant growth and if desired a 

 fair fruiting bed will then be started. This is the only difference in caring for ever- 

 bearing varieties or the standard varieties. We also recommend that you plant early. 

 It pays. 



Fine Healthy Plants Plants In No. 1 Condition 



Many Thanks Plants In Fine Order 



Dear Sirs- Attioa Ohio Anril?? IQ^^ Dear Sirs : Red Bank, N. J., April 29 1933. 



"^'^I r'cVived the plant^^VrsterJa^'alf a k''' Many , f-eived my plants in Jne o^der and w,sh to 

 thanks. Yours very truly. Mrs. Joseph Nagel. thank you ^-/^-/-^^l—- Edward Loeser. 



Fine Healthy Plants Better Plants For Less Money 



Dear Sirs: Cambridge. Ohio. May 1, 1933. Dear Sirs: Rebuck. Pa., May 9 1933 

 I received the 1.000 Premier strawberry plants May I state that I am more than pleased with 

 April 24th. They were in fine condition. I set my plants. They reached me in excellent condition 

 them out the same evening and to give them a good and there were very few that did not grow. They 

 start had a nice rain that night. They are all were equal to or better than any plants we received 

 living and they sure were fine, healthy looking from other firms in former years that sold at a con- 

 plants. Very truly yours, Paul Gibson. siderably higher price. Yours truly, Harry D. Moyer. 



