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MASTODON 
Mastodon is the most popular and widely grown 
Everbearer. It does well in all the northern and 
middle states, also as far south as North Carolina and 
Tennessee on sites of 100 feet or more elevation. 
Mastodon makes a very vigorous healthy plant 
growth, with strong robust individual plants. This 
may partly explain its ability to come through under 
tough conditions. Other varieties may be better or 
poorer under varying conditions, but Mastodon almost 
never lets you down entirely. 
Mr. H. G. McCoy of Chester Co., Pennsylvania on 
January 27, 1944 wrote, "I like the Mastodon so well, 
from the way they behaved through the dry weather 
last summer, that I'd like to have more." 
It bears from late summer until freezing weather. 
The heavy foliage often protects the berries so that 
they continue until long after the first frosts have 
come. 
Mastodon is a fine midseason berry for the spring 
season, entirely apart from its summer and fall crop. 
This makes Mastodon a sale variety to plant. 
The berries from either crop are large, bright red, 
of good quality and firm enough for local or nearby 
markets. Price list, page 23. 
GEM 
While Mastodon is more generally grown, many 
growers even in northern states agree with us that 
Gem is a better everbearer. Here in Maryland it pro- 
duces more late summer and fall berries. 
Gem berries are at least equal to Mastodon in size, 
quality and flavor. They are firmer, brighter, more 
uniform in size and shape, more attractive in ap- 
pearance and sell better on the market than the 
Mastodon. 
Although Gem is much better here for the late 
summer and fall crop, it is nowhere near as good for 
the spring crop as Mastodon. This may account 
largely for the greater general popularity of Mastodon. 
Gem plants are usually not as large and strong as 
Mastodon, but the thin beds this year have let even 
Gem plants get big enough. Set Gem plants early. 
Once started they make lots of new plants and 
berries in abundance. 
July 12. 1944, Hillsboro Co., N. H. The Gem plants 
you sent me this spring are doing fine. I took off 
all the flowers up to July 1st and now I have some 
Gem plants that are a ioot across and have iour 
crowns and eight runners leading from the Mother 
plant. Today I counted nine flower stems on one 
plant. I have a lot of Gem runner plants that are 
flowering and ready to fruit. 
Mr. Ernest Gardner 
Ql^^gl^ Due to the very short supply of Everbearing plants it has. been necessary 
to limit each customer to 100 plants of a variety. Order early as some 
EARLY varieties will surely be sold out before planting season is over. 
Green Mountain ^ ^'^'^ 
bearing variety and 
an equally fine very late regular season kind. It likes 
heavy soils and cool climates. Plant growth is very 
vigorous — ^just as good as Mastodon or Gemzaia. 
Berries are sweet, rather dry, beautiful yellow seeds, 
tough glossy skin, very attractive, good shippers. 
Sell well. 
Good reports from Green Mountain as a fall vanety- 
come from most all northern states — from high alti- 
tudes as far south as western North Carolina. Here's 
one from Connecticut on Green Mountain as a spring 
berry. 
Middlesex Co., Conn., April 12, 1944. Having 
picked and raised strawberries for fifty years or 
more, I find Green Mountain has more good points 
than any berry I ever raised. It has size that holds 
throughout the season, good quality and can be left 
longer on vine without going bad than any berry 
I ever raised. It will produce about 15,000 quarts to 
an acre on plants too thick for other berries to 
carry out. 
Mr. Eari C. Robert 
District of Columbia. June 7, 1944. In the spring 
of '43 I bought 100 everbearing strawberry plants 
from you. The results have been wonderitil. 
Mr. Howard Denby 
^gffizdtd Many excellent reports are coming 
in about Gemzata both as a fall 
bearer and for the spring crop. From what we have 
seen of Gemzata in several years' observation it is 
better than Gem in some ways. It is much more 
vigorous and somewhat more productive of larger 
berries. It equals Gem in quality, but the berries 
are not quite as uniform in shape or as smooth, bright 
and attractive in appearance. However, it is close 
to Gem on all those points and from reports we have, 
far ahead as a spring bearer. Price list, page 23. 
Minnesota 1 166 ^Z^^w ^Z' 
ing about this out- 
standing new Everbecurer for several years, but grew 
it for the first time in 1944. Set under identical con- 
ditions in a very tough, dry year, it made lots 
more plants and berries thaui any other Everbearer 
we have — even more than Gemzata, which was 
second in fruit production. Minnesota 1166 makes 
very healthy, medium size plants. Berries are fairly 
uniform in shape, bright and attractive in appear- 
ance, but only fair in quality. It seems well worth 
trying along with or in place of other leading ever- 
beeirina varieties. Price list, page 23. 
Berks Co., Pa., March 25, 1944. We sent to you ^ 
people for strawberry plants and did they grow! 9 A 
We had strawberries till Christmas. They were the W 
everbearing. Boy. were they big! I will send for 
some more later. 
Mrs. Frank L Neidig 
