Proven Berry Plants r r 
KNOTT’S BERRY PLACE / / Trees and Vines 
ries, but who wants to get the largest 
possible crop the same year the plants 
are set out. Everbearers produce more 
the first season than other varieties, but 
in our mild climate the fruiting season 
is so very long that they wear out 
quickly. Their long fruiting season 
makes them require more fertilizer than 
other varieties and since they bear most 
of the crop during our hot weather they 
require more water. 
Champion “K”—(Not to be confused 
with Champion Everbearing.) This is a 
very large berry that originated as a 
sport in a field of Klondyke. The fruit 
looks like Klondyke, but is larger and 
sweeter and not quite as firm. This 
berry starts ripening a little later in the 
spring than Klondyke and never knows 
when to quit bearing. Where the water 
supply and fertility of the soil is kept 
up we have watched them start bearing 
in the spring and bear straight through 
until October first, and not only did they 
bear over this long season, but the ber¬ 
ries were large marketable fruit during 
the whole time. 
This is a semi-everbearing variety and 
these are the main differences between 
the Champion “K” and the regular ever¬ 
bearers. The regular everbearer produces 
its main crop the same year it is planted 
and very often they bear themselves so 
nearly to death the first summer that 
they are not worth saving over for an¬ 
other year. The Champion “K” bears 
only a light crop the first fall, and pro¬ 
duces its main crops the second and 
third seasons, as other spring bearing 
varieties do. Nearly all of the regular 
everbearers make very few new plants, 
so must be set out in your rows just 
about as thick as you want them, while 
the Champion “K” can be set out wide 
apart and allowed to make runners to 
fill out the rows the first summer, if you 
wish. The Champion “K” is a much finer 
and better looking berry than most of 
the everbearers. The supply of plants 
will be very limited this year. 
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. 
THE ONE BEST RHUBARB 
We planted this three acre field of Cherry rhubarb in February, 1932. This 
photograph was taken October 14th, just eight months later. The men have just 
finished cutting and packing a carload of rhubarb (990 boxes) from a little less 
than half the patch. The shipper’s advance was 30c per box, or $297.00. 
Cherry Giant Rhubarb —Ten years ago 
we got our start of Cherry Rhubarb 
after losing money several years straight 
with other varieties. It was new then 
and we paid $80.00 per hundred for our 
plants (you can buy a thousand for less 
money now), but it has proved a good 
investment, for we have made money 
with our Cherry Rhubarb. We have in¬ 
creased our planting regularly until of 
late years we have had some plants to 
sell. If you are going to plant rhubarb, 
by all means plant Cherry. This fine 
rhubarb grows throughout the entire 
year and except for a short time in the 
warmest part of the summer the stems 
are a beautiful cherry red their entire 
length. It is a little less acid and 
better flavored than other sorts and 
even if it were not better, its beau¬ 
tiful red color would sell it. The stems 
are very large, but so tender that they 
do not require peeling when cooked. It is 
a very heavy yielder; four plants, if well 
cared for, is ample to supply an ordi¬ 
nary family with all the rhubarb they 
can use every week in the year. We 
often pick fifteen pounds of the most 
beautiful red rhubarb from a single 
plant at one time and in a few weeks 
it is ready to pick again. Plants set 
out in the spring are ready to start 
picking by September. Commercial grow¬ 
ers are finding that the market is de¬ 
manding this red rhubarb more and more 
each year. It is getting so that the 
common sorts will hardly sell at any 
price. It cannot be grown from seed, 
but has to be propagated by subdividing 
the plants, which makes it more costly 
than some of the common varieties. It 
is sure worth the difference, though, be¬ 
cause after once getting a start you can 
always increase your planting by sub¬ 
dividing, thus always having an in¬ 
creasing number of this superior rhu¬ 
barb. When a man devotes high-priced 
land and expensive labor to growing a 
crop it certainly pays to only grow the 
very best and something that the mar¬ 
ket wants. For the market gardener or 
the man with an acre or two of land 
who is trying to produce something to 
sell all the year around we certainly 
recommend Cherry Giant. One hundred 
plants will set four rows 100 feet long 
and will produce an astonishing amount 
of the finest red stems, and will produce 
them straight through the winter in the 
warmer sections. For best results rhu¬ 
barb requires plenty of moisture and 
either very rich land or liberal fertiliza¬ 
tion. Plant four feet apart in rows six 
or seven feet across. 
Prices prepaid—Each 25c, 5 for $1.00, 
10 for $2.00, 25 for $3.50, 50 for $6.00, 
100 for $9.00, 500 for $40.00, 1000 for 
$75.00. 
Rhubarb plants are heavy so we can 
make a very liberal discount for plants 
f. o. b. here. Write for quantity prices. 
