Where Will Dorsett and Fairfax Make Good? 



Dorsett and Fairfax have proved their superiority to Premier and all other early varieties in 

 southern New Jersey, Delaware, eastern Maryland, and the District of Columbia, Will they main- 

 tain this leadership in other sections? To get a "preview" of the answer to this question we wrote 

 in August, 1933, to a number of our customers in various states who had bought plants in March 

 and April. 1933. We asked their opinion of Dorsett and Fairfax based on their results so far, on 

 the growth of the plants and the quality of the berries in case they had let a few berries mature on 

 the young plants. Here are some of the answers to that inquiry: 



NEW YORK 



Putnam Co.. X. Y.. June ISth, 1933. — The Fairfax 

 and Dorsett strawberry plants I bought of you this 

 spring are all alive and doing tine. I let two plants of 

 each variety bear a little fruit. The berries were of 

 good size, perfect in form, and in eating quality the 

 best I ever tasted, no exceptions. — Mr. F. G. McColluni. 



MARYLAND 



Worcester Co.. Md.. May 31st, 1933. — Reporting on 

 the Fairfax berry. I think it is superb. Being only an 

 amateur, I am concerned chiefly with quality, but from 

 present prospects will have quantity as well. It is 

 quite the best berrv vet produced and has a champagne 

 flavor.— Mr. W. 11. Ocker. 



INDIANA 



Clarke Co., Ind., Sept. 3d, 1933. — The Dorsett and 

 Fairfax were both the most prolific plant makers that 

 I have ever grown. I have now (Sept. 2d) more than 

 a picking row. Fruited a few of the plants. The 

 Dorsett was extra firm, a tough skin, good size, fine 

 quality. The Fairfax was as large but not quite so 

 firm. They were the heaviest bloomers of all. They 

 look like a gold mine to me. — Mr. Zack Xicholson. 



ILLINOIS 



Marion Co.. 111., Sept. 3d. 1933. — The Dorsett and 

 Fairfax plants have done remarkably well this year 

 considering the adverse weather conditions. The qual- 

 ity of the berries is very good. I left about a dozen 

 plants to fruit of each variety. I never tasted such 

 sweet berries of any variety. They sure look like a 

 real berry, and I want to set all I can this next spring. 

 — Mr. A. R. Kins.-y. 



KENTUCKY 



Kenton Co., Ky„ Sept. 2d. 1933. — Tours of August 

 28th to hand, contents noted. In reply will say the 

 Dorsett and Fairfax plants I got of you last spring 

 nearly all lived and I have a fine patch of both. I left 

 about half a dozen plants to hear. I have been raising 

 the Dunlap. They were far superior to the Dunlap. — 

 -Mr. J. Z. Bristow. 



MASSACHUSETTS 



Plymouth Co.. Mass., Sept. 2d, 1933. — Xot one of the 

 Dorsett and Fairfax plants died. They made wonderful 

 growth. I never had any plants do any better. They 

 are perfectly healthy, with no signs of any disease on 

 them. The Howard 17 adjoining them did not do so 

 well. I am looking forward to next year's setting, 

 thinking I will set a lot of Dorsett and" Fairfax. — Mr. 

 Alfred Lynde. 



MICHIGAN 



Emmett Co., Mich., Sept. 2d. 1933. — In my forty or 

 more years' experience in growing the strawberry, and 

 among the many varieties I have experimented with, I 



do not recall having a variety, the habit and manner 

 of growth of the plants came as near to our conception 

 and desire of what was satisfactory as these two 

 varieties are manifesting. — Mr. M. N. Edgerton. 



Hillsdale Co., Mich., Sept. 1st, 1933. — In regard to 

 the Fairfax and Dorsett plants, we wish to say that 

 they are the greenest, healthiest, and the most" vigor- 

 ous growers we ever had, living better than 99 per cent. 

 We were very successful in developing some fine stems 

 of fruit. The berries are of the finest dessert quality, 

 solid enough to make two of the best long distance 

 shippers. Fairfax quality approaches perfection. Dor- 

 sett is a close second. So certain are we that Fairfax 

 and Dorsett are to become leaders in Michigan that we 

 are giving Fairfax first and Dorsett second place in 

 varieties we will set next spring. — Mr. Wm. H. Abbott. 



OHIO 



Belmont Co., Ohio. Sept. 5th, 1933. — Am very well 

 pleased with the Dorsett and Fairfax strawberry 

 plants which I purchased last spring. I can give no 

 report on the merits of the berries as I pinched all the 

 blossoms off. The plants, however, which I set in the 

 same patch with Premier, Big Joe, and Chesapeake, all 

 grew and at the present time are the best in appear- 

 ance of any I have. Both varieties at the present time 

 have made a good matted row about 18 inches wide, 

 whicli is considerably better than the Premier or Big 

 Joe. — Mr. K. M. Shepherd. 



PENNSYLVANIA 



McLean Co., Pa.. Aug. 29th. 1933. — Regarding the 

 Dorsett. We are unable to judge the quality of the 

 berries themselves, as we cut off all the blossoms, but 

 as to the plant, well, of all the d ! fferent sorts tried 

 over a more than twenty-year period, they give greater 

 promise today than anything we have ever seen. Out 

 of the few thousand plants of four varieties you sent 

 me last spring they are unquestionably beyond com- 

 parison. — Mr. Richard E. Klinger. 



Adams Co., Pa.. Aug. 30th, 1933. — In regard to the 

 Dorsett and Fairfax plants I got last spring. I have 

 never had as fine a stand of plants in thp six years that 

 I have grown berries as 1 have with the Dorsett and 

 Fairfax. I surely do like the flavor of them also. — Mr. 

 Charles W. Bretzman. 



VIRGINIA 



Charles City Co., Va., Sept. 1st, 1933. — In replv to 

 your recent letter, permit me to state that the Dorsett 

 and Fairfax plants which I purchased from vou last 

 spring have done better than any other variety. The 

 plants practically all lived, and "thev have made won- 

 derful fruiting beds. I left the blossoms on a few 

 plants of each variety, and the fruit from the two 

 varieties mentioned above far surpasses that of any 

 other kind. Please send me your new Berrv Book as 

 spon as it comes out, as I am very anxious to read how 

 the Dorsett and Fairfax did for vou this year. — Mr 

 D. G. C. Garrison. 



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