A New Standard of Excellence 



Even Premier is Destined to Share its Honors 



It is our belief that Fairfax and Dorsett are destined to supercede even Premier in a great 

 many of the areas where Premier is now being grown. We may be wrong, but our opinion is 

 based on the results of these varieties in this trial plot, and examination of the varieties several 

 times in other places and under other conditions. Our old customers will know that we have 

 not introduced and boosted a new variety for many years. We have offered the new ones and 

 quoted the opinions of the growers and given our own opinion. We have waited for years before 

 finding a new variety that we felt we could really get behind. Not since Premier was introduced 

 have we had one until now, when we have a double measure. Both Fairfax and Dorsett deserve 

 all the boosting we can give them. We believe that a new standard of excellence has, in fact, 

 been raised. Look over the figures in these tables again and you will get some indication of 

 why we believe all of this. Read about them on pages 14-16. They are really worth while. 



Old Varieties Under New Names 



Chesapeake as Late Berry. This is the sec- 

 ond time we have checked up on this variety, 

 the plants in both years coming from the intro- 

 ducers of Lateberry, which was introduced a 

 few years ago by a Michigan firm. It is un- 

 doubtedly the same as Chesapeake which we 

 introduced in 1907, and which still stands as 

 the Aristocrat of all late strawberries. 



Lupton as Town King. Lupton has been 

 sold as Town King for several years by a 

 Maryland grower. We have felt for some time 

 that the two varieties w r ere identical. In this 

 plot, however, we set two rows of Lupton from 

 our own stock and one row of Town King 

 obtained from the introducers of Town King. 

 The two varieties again proved to be identical 

 and the records in the accompanying table are 

 taken from all three rows. 



Ridgely as Jupiter. It appears certain that 

 Jupiter is identical with the Ridgely which 

 has been grown near Ridgely, Maryland, for 

 many years. The Jupiter in our test plot 

 came from the introducer of Jupiter and the 

 Ridgely from a Delaware grower who has been 

 selling Ridgely for a long time. In our test 

 plot the Jupiter proved to be almost an abso- 

 lute failure. The berries, and to a large extent 

 the plants, were affected by dry weather as 

 much or more than any variety in the test. 

 There are two points of special merit; the ber- 



ries are of a bright attractive color and they 

 are very firm, but it seems necessary to have 

 low springy land to grow the Ridgely or Jupi- 

 ter successfully. 



Orem as Frost King. We obtained some 

 plants of Frost King from a Michigan grower 

 for this test plot and at fruiting time found it 

 to be identical with Orem which we have been 

 growing for many years. 



Big Joe as New Hope. We, ourselves, offered 

 New Hope in 1932 only. We saw it fruiting 

 near Willards, Maryland, under conditions 

 much different from those under which we were 

 used to seeing Big Joe. We suggested that it 

 might be Big Joe but the grower insisted that 

 it was something entirely different and that it 

 was the best money maker he had, being just 

 as profitable as Chesapeake. Such a berry was 

 well worth offering and we were completely 

 fooled as to its real identity. We have, how- 

 ever, gone through our books and returned to 

 every purchaser of New Hope the difference 

 between the amount he paid us for New Hope 

 and our list price for the same quantity of 

 Big Joe. We want our customers to feel not 

 only that they can get good plants at a fair 

 price from us, but that they can try out our 

 new offerings whenever made without feeling 

 that they may be paying an extra price for 

 plants of an old variety under a new name. 



Not So Good 



There are three varieties which in 1932, and previously, were extensively advertised and highly 

 recommended by leading plant growers. We feel that our customers have a right to know our 

 honest opinion about all new varieties. When a new variety is of exceptional merit, like the 

 Premier, we expect to boost it, as we did do, regardless of whom the introducer might be. 

 When our results are not promising we expect to report the facts. 



Harvest King. This variety was introduced 

 and has been boosted by a leading responsible 

 plant grower of Michigan for several years. 

 For this reason we have felt that under some 

 conditions it must have some merit, but after 

 three years trial we have found Harvest King 

 to be so absolutely worthless that we cannot 

 help but feel that even under conditions where 

 it might be fairly good, other varieties would 

 be vastly better. We, therefore, did not plant 

 any Harvest King this year except in our trial 

 plot where we wanted to check up once more 

 on our previous unsatisfactory results from it. 

 It is certainly no good with us. 



Washington. This variety makes a vigorous, 

 healthy plant growth. This growth starts out 

 in the spring and remains vigorous and healthy 

 looking until just after blooming time. For 



two years in succession with us, and this year 

 on a solid block of one acre in addition to our 

 trial plot, the foliage commenced to fail soon 

 after blossoming time, and was in very poor 

 condition by the time the fruit started to ripen. 

 There was a large crop of berries set and many 

 of them got to be of fairly large size. The 

 foliage being so poor and the berries exposed 

 to the sun, made sun scald an important fac- 

 tor. Looking down the row one would get the 

 impression that there was a fairly good crop 

 of nice berries. When we went to pick them 

 it was hard to find a berry that was good. 

 When a perfect berry was found it was very 

 good in quality and gave some indication of 

 why the introducer called it "the Honey Sweet 

 Strawberry." From the reputation of the 

 introducer of this variety we know it must 



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