Everbearing Varieties 



Facts and Possibilities 



Berries For Home Use. Think of it! Plenty 

 of luscious strawberries from your own gar- 

 den all through late summer and fall until 

 freezing weather. This is easily possible. 

 Plants can be set in 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 re- 

 sults. Wherever there is space available for a 

 garden (and it does not take much), a few 

 Everbearing berries should be grown. A maxi- 

 mum 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 Ever- 

 bearing 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 plant- 

 ing 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 road- 

 side market, or ship to the city market. We 

 know of one case near here where a grower 

 sold his Mastodon crop for more than $600.00 

 per acre, shipping to the city market. If the 

 conditions are favorable, Everbearing straw- 

 berries are a good bet as a money or cash 

 crop. If it works out there is an additional 

 advantage in the quickness of the returns. You 

 set plants in March or April and harvest the 

 crop the same summer and fall. 



Playing Safe With a Cash Crop. In start- 

 ing 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 eorae 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. 

 The yield in our test plot (see page 10) showed 

 Mastodon bearing almost as many berries as 

 the very best of the midseason varieties. Here 

 is a chance to try out Everbearers as a money 

 crop and still have something to fall back on 

 in case they do not prove out under your 

 conditions. 



No Special Culture. Everbearing strawber- 

 ries require no special attention as to prepara- 

 tion of land, fertilization, setting and cultiva- 

 tion 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 unfavor- 

 able with the extreme heat and drought it is 

 best to keep them cut a little longer. 



Hill System. Years of observation have con- 

 vinced 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 than those which make runners. The 

 blossoms have a better chance to become pol- 

 lenated 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 2.V2. feet 

 apart. 



Yield. A crop of one quart during the sum- 

 mer and fall for each plant set is not unusual, 

 although above the average. The better the 

 conditions under which plants are set and 

 grown, and the better, stronger plants you 

 start out with, the more nearly you can ap- 

 proach this yield. 



AIJ * L Introduced and highly recom- 

 MiaNCn me nded by a New York State 

 grower. We have tried it two years and find 

 it to be no better than Mastodon in any re- 

 spect. It is about as productive, but is a much 

 less vigorous grower, and the foliage will not 

 stand up as well as Mastodon. The berries are 

 fair in quality, of good appearance, and rea- 

 sonably firm. We have a small stock of plants 

 for those who want to try it. Price list, page 31. 



Champion (Progressive) J\ 



The best 

 )f the 



Everbearers in quality. It is also very pro- 

 ductive. Not recommended for trial as a cash 

 crop, and no good at all as a spring fruiting 

 variety. Champion, or Progressive, was the 

 first really good Everbearer and the variety 

 largely responsible for putting Everbearers 

 "on the map." The plant growth is rather 

 weak as compared with Mastodon. Price list, 

 page 31. 



Si in ah rinnf As an Everbearing sort 

 Upei VJldMl ranks next to Masto- 

 don. The plant growth is strong and vigor- 

 ous, and quite productive but not quite equal 

 to Mastodon either in vigor or productiveness. 

 Berries are large, of good quality and excel- 

 lent appearance, fully equalling Mastodon in 

 these respects. Super Giant is well worth try- 

 ing either in the home garden or as a commer- 

 cial sort. Price list, page 31. 



Ln.-L-u ^fi-it-n A variet y that has 

 Utrvy JUIKt: been on the market 



for several years, but we have not grown it 

 regularly. This year our plants of Lucky 

 Strike proved to be fairly heavy bearers, and 

 the berries were good in quality and of good 

 appearance. Like the Aldrich it is not a very 

 vigorous grower. Our opinion of it is that it 

 is well worth trying but not of outstanding 

 merit. In our test plot it proved of very little 

 value as a spring fruiter. In this respect it 

 cannot be compared with Mastodon. Price 

 list, page 31. 



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