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Banner Strawberries 
Mastodon Everbearing" — A very large 
everbearing strawberry that is being tre¬ 
mendously advertised in the east. We 
made a planting of Mastodon in March 
1932 from which we started picking 
commercially in June and we picked this 
patch regularly until November first. 
They produced an abundant crop and the 
fruit was large during the entire season. 
This variety starts right in to produce 
fruit the first season, consequently makes 
very few runners and few plants. This 
characterisitc makes the plants expen¬ 
sive, but it saves the grower much time 
in pulling runners which is especially de¬ 
sirable in home garden planting. 
In order to make this berry, or any of 
the other everbearing varieties, come 
along and produce a good crop the first 
season you must push them right from 
the start with plenty of water and fer¬ 
tilizer and you should keep all of the 
blossoms picked off until the first of 
June. As soon as your everbearing plants 
have started to grow well, make a fur¬ 
row as close as you can get on each side 
of the row without disturbing the plants, 
and in these furrows drill or scatter a 
good fertilizer, such as fish meal, tank¬ 
age, blood, or a good mixed fertiliber, 
at the rate of about five pounds in each 
furrow to the hundred feet of row. Mix 
the fertilizer with the dirt so that it will 
not float and fill the furrows up with 
water and then when they are dry enough 
draw in the dirt. Repeat this in six or 
eight weeks and then let them start 
bearing in June and you should get ber¬ 
ries the rest of the summer, but you 
must keep them well irrigated, for they 
must have lots of water if they are to 
bear continuously through the hot 
weather. It is much easier to grow the 
spring bearing varieties than it is ever- 
bearing kinds in California and our 
spring bearing kinds bear about four 
months in California (from early spring 
to the middle of the summer). 
Prices—25, 75c; 50, $1.40; 100, $2.50; 
300, $6.00; 500, $8.00; 1,000, $14.00. 
New Oregon—Banner—Oregon Plum— 
The same berry under different names. 
From the standpoint of quality this is 
the finest berry grown in California to¬ 
day. We especially recommend them to 
commercial growers in Central and 
Northern California and to home garden¬ 
ers with rather heavy soil in Southern 
California. In the cooler sections this 
berry is almost everbearing. It is a fine 
variety for growers who sell their fruit at 
the roadside because the customer never 
forgets the fine quality and flavor and 
always comes back for more. It is one 
of the very best home garden varieties 
in the south and a popular commercial 
variety in the north. It is not well 
adapted to our very lightest soils, espe¬ 
cially in the south. It is particularly 
well adapted to those districts in Cali¬ 
fornia which have cold spells in winter, 
for it needs a completely dormant period 
in the winter for best results. This 
makes it a particularly good variety for 
low cold spots and for growers in our 
mountain valleys where there is snow 
every winter. 
Prices—Twenty-five, 75c; 100, $2.00; 
300, $4.00; 500, $6.00; 1,000, $9.00. 
Gem Everbearing — While on a trip 
through the berry growing districts of 
Oregon this fall (1934) we saw a trial 
planting of a new everbearing variety 
known as the Gem. To our knowledge 
this is the first season they have been 
tried in the West. We were very much 
impressed with the berry and thought it 
very superior to any everbearing straw¬ 
berry that we had seen before. If it will 
do in California as it was doing in Ore¬ 
gon this fall it will be a very fine addi¬ 
tion to our strawberry varieties. We have 
contracted for what plants we can get 
and are going to give it a trial here and 
would like to see it tried at a number of 
other places in California, for it is the 
first entirely satisfactory everbearing 
strawberry that we have ever seen. If 
you would like to try the Gem we will 
divide our plants with you. 
Prices Prepaid — 25 for 90c, 50 for 
$1.50, 100 for $2.75, 300 for $7.50. 
Dorset and Fairfax — These are two 
new vareities of strawberries developed 
by the Department of Agriculture which 
are very promising. They are very pro¬ 
ductive, and the fruit averages very 
large and the crop comes early. The 
quality is very good. By quality we mean 
that the berry has good flavor, good ap¬ 
pearance, and good keeping qualities. 
They are both good early berries and 
have not been tried enough in Califor¬ 
nia for us to say which is going to be 
best adapted to our conditions. There is 
some difference in flavor between the 
two varieties and considerable difference 
in color. The Dorsett is probably a lit¬ 
tle more productive and the fruit is a 
little lighter in color, while the Fairfax 
is quite dark red. Growers who fruited 
small plantings of these varieties in 
1934 praise them highly. 
Prices Prepaid—25 for 75c, 50 for $1.25, 
100 for $2.00~, 300 for $5.00, 500 for $8.00, 
1000 for $14.00. 
EVERBEARING VARIETIES 
A few words about everbearing straw¬ 
berries. They do not fruit through the 
entire year. They are called everbearing 
because they bear during the summer 
and fall after other varieties are gone. 
They are good to prolong the strawberry 
season and are good for the grower who 
cannot wait until next year for his ber- 
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