Making the Most of the Everbearers 



Berries for Home Use. Would you like plenty of luscious strawberries from your own garden 

 all through late summer and fall until freezing weather? This is easily possible. Plants can be 

 set iu early spring. There are no special methods necessary. Get good plants and follow a few 

 simple directions and you will be surprised and delighted with the results. Wherever there is space 

 available for a garden (and it does not take much), a few Everbearing berries should be grown. 

 A. maximum of pleasure and profit will result from a minimum of expense and effort. 



Everbearers as a Cash Crop. We have never recommended the general planting of everbearing 

 strawberries as a money crop. We have known for years that under favorable conditions many 

 growers are actually making good profits from Everbearers. The things essential to this success in 

 a commercial way are good springy land that will hold moisture well throughout the summer, and 

 a ready market at good prices. Of course, good planting stock and good care are essential also. 

 Successful growers report to us that they sell to local groceries and hotel trade ; to individual families 

 at retail, and the local roadside market or ship to the city market. If the conditions are favorable, 

 Everbearing strawberries are a good bet as a money or cash crop. If it works out, there is an addi- 

 tional advantage in the quickness of the returns. You set plants in March or April and harvest the 

 crop the same summer and fall. 



Guarding Against Loss. In starting any new venture there is an element of risk. Perhaps you 

 have thought seriously of trying Everbearers as a money crop but have hesitated on account of the 

 risk involved, even though your conditions might seem favorable. One factor has come to light which 

 makes the risk very much less. It has been demonstrated that the Mastodon variety, entirely apart 

 from its value as an Everbearer, is a most excellent spring fruiting variety. It bears a heavy crop 

 coming in about midseason with Big Joe. The berries are large, handsome in appearance, and good 

 in quality. They show up well in the package and stand shipment in good shape. This being true, 

 you can try out the late summer and fall crop of Mastodon as a profit maker. If they do not prove 

 profitable under your conditions, there is still a fine crop of spring berries from the Mastodon to 

 fall back on. 



No Special Culture. Everbearing strawberries require no special attention as to preparation of 

 land, fertilization, setting and cultivation of the plants. The only difference is that the blossoms 

 should be picked off until about the middle of July. If the growing season has been favorable and 

 the plants are strong and robust you can safely leave the blossoms a little earlier. If conditions 

 have been unfavorable with the extreme heat and drought it is best to keep them cut a little longer. 



Hill System. Years of observation have convinced us that you will get more and better berries 

 from your Everbearing plants if all or nearly all runners are kept cut off. Big, strong, individual 

 plants always seem to have more berries tha% those which make runners. The blossoms have a 

 I >etter chance to become pollenated and produce large, perfect berries and the effort of the plants is 

 concentrated on fruit production rather than making runners. Set plants 15 inches apart in rows 

 2 to iV-i feet apart. 



Yield. A crop of one quart during the summer and fall for each plant set is not unusual, although 

 above the average. The better the conditions under which the plants are set and grown, and the 

 better, stronger plants you start out with, the more nearly you can approach this yield. 



AlHrirll A new one from New York not F.lipkv Strike Under favorable con- 

 ^LlllllCll as g0Qd with us ag Mastodon ■L.Ul.JV^ OUlKe d . t . onS) th . s var . ety 



It is about as productive, but is a much less has done well as an Everbearer. It is about equal 

 vigorous grower, and the foliage will not stand to Mastodon in productiveness and in quality 

 up as well as Mastodon. Ihe berries are fair (lf the berries Th . ; 



in qualitv, ot good appearance, and reasonably ™ . . . ,. ... " "" Lua 



Arm. We have a small stock of plants for those Cham P 10n > bu t slightly under Mastodon. In 

 who want to try it. Price list, page 35. plant growth it is not as vigorous as Mastodon. 



Reports indicate that it has not done as well 

 generally as either Mastodon or Champion. 

 Price list, page 35. 

 bearers in quality. Very productive, but berries 



average smaller in size than Mastodon. No good O f~\ • 



for the spring crop. Imperial, introduced in ollDCr IjlBIlt llant growth 1S 

 Michigan last year, is very similar in plant strong and vigorous, 



growth, and in size, appearance and quality of and QUlte Productive but not quite equal to 

 the fruit. Plant growth of Champion is not as Mastodon in either vigor or productiveness, 

 strong as Mastodon generally, although it does Berries are large, of good quality, and good in 

 better in the South. We repeat, the quality of appearance. Fully equal to Mastodon in this 

 Champion is very fine. Price list, page 35. respect. It is worth trying. Price list, page 35. 



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