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J. H. Shivers Plant Farms, Allen, Maryland 
Aroma is a good midseason to late berry 
GANDY. One of the leading late kinds and by some still con¬ 
sidered the best. The only trouble is, that on dry soils or in a very 
dry season it cannot be depended on to bear well. Of extra shipping 
and selling qualities, it is still the leading market berry for late in 
some large berry producing centers. A free plant maker and good 
grower generally, yet sometimes failing in vigor. 
GIBSON (Parsons’ Beauty). Plants very productive, berries very 
good in quality and excellent for canning. I do not recommend it, 
however, except for a moist, swampy soil of fair fertility; but when 
given that, it is one of the greatest berries ever grown, provided the 
season is not too wet at picking time. If there is much rain when they 
are ripening they are sure to rot badly. 
SAMPLE. Ripens in midseason about the same time as Aroma 
and Big Joe, and there is none that holds up better in size to the end 
of the season. Anyone wanting to plant main crop berries would do 
well to include Sample in their list. It is reliable, especially in Penn¬ 
sylvania and the Middle West. Big Joe and Sample make a great pair. 
Plant them together. Blossoms are imperfect, pollenize with Aroma 
or Big Joe. 
