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MIDWAY 



Midway, a cross of Dixieland and Temple, is a new midseason variety released 

 for introduction by the U.S.D.A. in 1960. Midway plant growth is robust and healthy. 

 The plants are extremely productive, producing berries which average medium to 

 large in size and maintaining good size throughout the picking season. The berries 

 have a uniform deep red color with a glossy surface, firm skin and yellow seeds. 

 The flesh is firm and the shape is irregular conic to blunt conic. Berries have good 

 dessert quality and have been satisfactory in frozen packs. Midway seems plenty 

 good to use under many conditions and resistance to the common race of red stele 

 widens its usefulness. 



Ohio reports for the 1960-61 season rate Midway as showing real promise with a yield of 

 13,358 quarts per acre; reports from Michigan growers show real enthusiasm and heavy planting 

 of this new variety. 



Under Maryland conditions with a very dry picking season in 1962, Midway did not hold up 

 very well. This would seem to confirm Beltsville, Maryland, results that Midway does better on 

 a silt loam soil than on a "light sandy soil. In addition, new plantings of Midway did not survive 

 the hot, dry growing season as well as you would expect of a variety with its apparent vigor. 

 Also Midway is susceptible to verticilium wilt and should not be grown after crops such as 

 tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant or peppers. 



Many reports on Midway in 1962 have been erratic which seems to indicate that it cannot 

 stand heat and drought as well as other standard varieties. Best indications remain that Midway 

 should be planted in Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, southern New England, Michigan, 

 Indiana and Ohio. It is worthy of trial in this area. Price list page 32. 



Temple 



Big Joe 



First of the good red stele resistant vari- 

 eties. It is not immune to all strains but has 

 sufficient resistance so that profitable crops 

 of berries can be grown on red stele soils. 

 Normally Temple makes a vigorous plant 

 growth, quite productive, berries medium to 

 large in size, moderately firm and of excellent 

 quality. Not rated high as a freezing berry 

 but as a home garden berry or moderate dis- 

 tant shipping berry it has done well in the 

 lower-lying soils of southern Delaware and 

 eastern Maryland. Price list page 32. 



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Big Joe is one of our oldest varieties, 

 not virus free but a vigorous grower anyway. 

 Plants are moderately productive, and the 

 berries average large in size. Berries are 

 fairly firm, and a bright red color with an 

 attractive green cap makes them very showy 

 and easy to sell. Big Joe is a fairly good 

 shipper. It is somewhat susceptible to late 

 frosts so selection of frosty sites should be 

 avoided. Generally best results have been 

 obtained in the middle states. If you know 

 and like Big Joe we have beautiful plants 

 for you. Price list page 32. 



