and the latest Very Good Strawberry 
With Redstar you can have fancy berries to use 
or sell ten days after other berries are gone. This fact 
is the most valuable single attribute of Redstar—to 
extend the season for fancy fruit. Almost equally 
important is the fact that you are sure to get a crop. 
Redstar blooms so late that it is never killed 
by late frost. 
The first berries are very large and wedge 
shaped. Later berries are mostly round-conic. 
Redstar berries are very fine in quality. They 
have an attractive bright red color which darkens 
very little on holding. Where a good bed is made 
Redstar is extremely productive and the berries 
average large in size, firm enough for shipping and 
attractive enough to sell well. Because it is so late Red- 
star should be grown where ample moisture is available 
at fruiting time, either from naturally moist soil or irrigation. 
Until 1956 no virus free Redstar were available. Stocks had 
become so weakened that it was almost impossible to get a good fruiting 
row. Virus free plants are now available and it is easy to get a wonderful - 
fruiting row with big, healthy, beautiful foilage. (See picture.) 
Redstar has had another weakness—fasciation. In this several fruiting 
stems apparently merge forming a broad flat stem and the berries broaden and 
twist, making them very undesirable. Our new virus free stocks show far less 
of this than the old strains. : 
If you are a commercial grower you can stretch your season and handle a far 
greater volume of berries with a given amount of help. If you are a home gardener you 
can stretch the season and feed your family wonderful desserts many days after other 
berries have called it a season. This new virus free Redstar stock will not disappoint you. 
The severe drought last summer reduced our yields of redstar so they cannot be offered 
in large quantities, but the plants we have are very large, vigorous and healthy. Please do not 
wait too late if you want this variety. Price list page 32. 
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Red Rich produces the largest plant of all the everbearers. The foliage is most beautiful. The large, 
healthy, dark green leaves make them fully worthy of being used for decorative purposes. Red Rich makes 
far less plants than Superfection even under the best of conditions. As a spring cropper we have not found 
Red Rich of much value. The berries are good, in fact supreme in quality, but the plants are not highly 
productive and the berries, while they: resemble Fairfax, in general are duller, rougher and not at all 
attractive. 
Some reports rate Red Rich as outstanding among 
all the everbearers in all-around value. Our 
experience puts it well ahead of all others in 
delicious dessert quality, but we have not found it 
to be as productive as Superfection and good 
strains of Gem. Our stock comes direct from the 
introducer. Price list page 32. 
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red rich : 
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