1911. 
Ruralisms 
Everbearing Strawberries. 
The everbearing strawberry is no 
longer new, but we are still hearing 
much about it. A number of men are 
enthusiastically engaged in testing seed¬ 
lings from the original stock, and are 
finding a number that possess in a more 
or less degree the qualities sought for. 
The mother of all the everbearing 
strain was the Pan-American, found by 
Samuel Cooper, of New York, and ap¬ 
parently one of those queer bud varia¬ 
tions that nature occasionally gives 
birth to. Concurring testimony agrees 
. that this was the first genuine ever- 
bearer that possessed any practical value 
and was prepotent to transmit its fruit¬ 
fulness to its seedlings. 
Great hopes were at first raised by 
the introduction of the Pan-American, 
but expectations seems to have been 
generally disappointed. During 1910, 
however, several seedlings were sent 
out for trial that seemed to have none 
of the deficiencies of the Pan-American, 
such as shyness in making runners. 
Claims are now being made for these 
• that seem to me to be clearly extra¬ 
vagant and calculated to mislead and 
disappoint. For example a well-known 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
siderably short of Spring crops. It will 
make runners quite liberally if well fer¬ 
tilized. A characteristic of it and its 
class is the precocity of the runners 
which frequently blossom and bear fruit 
while still dependent on the mother 
plant. Such a phenomenon I never 
witnessed among Spring sorts. 
I am not satisfied how well worth 
while it is to allow no blossoms nor 
fruit before September. So far I have 
seen no great difference. It is a task 
comparable to cutting off runners to 
pick off all buds, for they constantly 
keep forming. In a comparison of 
berries I have not found the Fall pro¬ 
duct to be as large and as juicy as 
that of Spring, nor in the same abund¬ 
ance, but it is perhaps sweeter because 
drier. The great obstacle in the way 
of making the Fall bearers profitable in 
this country is the heat and drought, 
which are quite regular visitors in 
August and September, and occasionally 
a drought will continue till November. 
It is plainly impossible to produce good 
berries during the fierce heat of the 
dog days, and when heat and drought 
extend on to October, it is obvious that 
there is a very brief season left for 
fruitage, for killing frost usually arrived 
by the end of that month. 
Irrigation strikes one as a prime re¬ 
quisite for success with the Fall bear¬ 
ers, and where it could be installed at 
not too great an expense it might prove 
profitable. Some cheap system of shad¬ 
ing would greatly supplement and con¬ 
tribute to success, but here we are ap¬ 
proaching greenhouse conditions. 
To sum up, I should say that the 
everbearers were a promising field for 
the specialist but not for the ordinary 
growers. The Autumn, the first pro¬ 
duct . of the Pan-American, possesses 
peculiar traits. It is disposed to grow 
in hill form and produces an immense 
stool of roots and foliage. In the Spring 
a large plant will send out as many as 
20 to 30 fruit stalks and pile a ring of 
berries around it and berries, too, of 
the finest flavor, color and shape. It 
was not the product of any cross but 
simply a variation from uncrossed seed 
of its parent. The seedlings that are 
now being put on the market produce 
runners in abundance and are thus an 
improvement on the Pan-American. It 
seems obvious that the hill system will 
always prove the best for the Fall 
bearer. The Pan-American is shown 
on page 1067, Fig. 430, while Fig. 431 
shows a runner of this variety. 
L. R. JOHNSON. 
Cape Girardeau Co., Mo. 
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BERRY. Fig. 431. 
Western correspondent publishes the 
statement that “this new class begins to 
bear early in May and its fruiting sea¬ 
son is from that time till December. 
Now this does not mean just an oc¬ 
casional berry, but a heavy crop right 
straight through. It has put such a 
thing as a fruit failure in the future 
out of the question. The time is near 
at hand when they will entirely dis¬ 
place the ordinary varieties.” A prom¬ 
inent Eastern grower holds up $1,000 
as the income from one acre during the 
Fall months, and guarantees the new 
kinds to produce more in the Fall than 
any Spring-bearing variety will in June. 
My opinion is that such results are 
just as visionary for the ordinary 
grower as a crop of 50,000 quarts per 
acre in the Spring, which has, it ap¬ 
pears, been approximated by the last 
quoted authority. My experience with 
the everbearers here in Missouri and 
under the same conditions that Spring 
bearers are subject to, is that they are 
erratic in bearing, and even at their 
best entirely dependent on favorable 
weather, which means an absence of 
excessive heat and plenty of moisture. 
In short, they demand Spring condi¬ 
tions of temperature and moisture just 
as do common kinds. One thing can 
be said with emphasis, and that is that 
the everbearers are wonderfully prolific 
as Spring bearers and in that respect 
are equalled by very few if indeed any 
of the old sorts. I see no reason why 
they should not become popular as 
profitable market varieties for Spring 
in the case of the later seedlings, which 
make the usual number of runners. 
Then, too, the quality of some is first- 
class, as for example the Autumn. I 
hope some enthusiast will try to en¬ 
graft the prolificacy of the new class 
upon some of the standard kinds, such 
as the Gandy. There have been times 
when the Pan-American did fairly well 
as a Fall bearer, hut at that it fell con¬ 
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