DAVID KNIGHT & SON, SAWYER, MICHIGAN 
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DORSETT and 
FAIRFAX 
You have heard much of these two, and 
they will probably supplant most early va¬ 
rieties we are now growing, as they have 
been proven successful over a wide area 
and produce the kind of fruit that meets 
with highest prices in all markets. Both 
are of scientific origin by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, being 
seedlings of Premier and Royal Sov¬ 
ereign, the latter an English variety 
long known for its high dessert qual¬ 
ities. 
Dorsett is somewhat more produc¬ 
tive than Fairfax, but they are both 
heavy producers and the berries aver¬ 
age very large, uniformly larger 
than Premier. Dorsett berries are 
medium light in color while Fairfax 
are medium dark, both are very firm 
making them splendid shipping varieties. In quality these two berries set a new standard. 
Some like Dorsett better, some Fairfax, but both are superior to most any other sort and 
daily bring higher prices in market on this account together with their size and beautiful 
appearance. 
Both Dorsett and Fairfax are practically immune to disease, make very vigorous plant 
growth and maintain their vigor and health of foliage during the entire fruiting season. 
Don’t fail to set Dorsett and Fairfax this year, for they are the coming market berries. 
Dorsett 
Strawberries. 
GRAND CHAMPION 
In the spring of 1932, while in Southern Indiana, I heard some big stories of a new Strawberry 
grown there called Grand Champion—stories too big to believe, of course, and I wasn’t much 
interested. But a few days later I had the opportunity of seeing a crate of these new berries and 
was so surprised at the size, quality and beauty of the fruit that I immediately looked up the owner 
to find out more about it. I learned he had found a single plant of this chance seedling growing 
in an out-of-the-way spot in 1924. Berries were ripe at that time and they were so remarkable 
that he dug up the plant and from it grew thirty new plants. These thirty plants were set out 
and the following spring he picked 105 quarts of berries and had 300 plants for resetting. The 
acreage was increased until 1928, when he had a half acre from which he picked 250 twenty-four- 
quart crates of extra fancy fruit. The berries commence to ripen a little later than Premier and 
continue for from thirty-five to forty days, an unusually long season. The first year I visited the 
patch he had about two acres of this variety and I never saw such an enormous setting of all the 
way from blossoms to ripe berries. One could hardly believe their own eyes-—and such a crop 
could not be produced were it not for the extremely heavy foliage and strong, healthy, tall stems. 
You never saw such berries as I saw that spring-—unusually large, no core and few seeds, rich 
red color, splendid flavor and produced in almost unbelievable quantities. The owner sells them 
every year to nearby stores and hotels at prices above any other varieties. I visited the patch again 
last spring and was disappointed to find the berries were not as good as the year before—just as 
many but more mis-shapen ones. The owner explained this as due to unfavorable weather con¬ 
ditions at blooming time and as this had not happened before during the eight years he had been 
fruiting them I believe it is nothing to hold against the variety. 
With another nurseryman here, I purchased a quantity of Grand Champion plants which were set 
last spring and made a fine growth. One look across a patch and you can pick our Grand Cham¬ 
pion. as they stand “head and shoulders” above all other varieties. 
We want to keep most of our plants for resetting, but are offering them in limited quantities, 
and urge you to order some of them this spring, Fr if they do as well for you as I saw them grown 
in Southern Indiana, then you will grow more berries, fancier berries and over a longer fruiting 
season than you have ever grown before—or that you could produce with any other variety. 
A. R. KNIGHT 
