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EARL E. MAY'S I93S CATALOG OF SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
FAIRFAX 
A Royal Strawberry 
More productive than Premier, equally as early but 
the berries average larger and are more fancy. They 
hold up better for shipping. A great money-maker for 
those who wish to plant strawberries for sale. 
The highest possible quality fruit, a uniform deep 
red with a rich flavor and very sweet. It also fruits 
over a longer period of time than the Premier and we feel that 
these two varieties, Fairfax and Dorsett, will eventually re¬ 
place Premier as the earliest market berry. Our stock of this 
variety is limited this year and we wish everyone who wants 
to plant these extra early strains to order early and be assured 
of getting plants. 
PREMIER — EXTRA EARLY 
most the Year Around 
By planting an assortment of varieties including the Ever- 
bearers you can have fresh strawberries from your own 
garden from early spring until freezing weather. Fairfax 
and Dorsett, the two new ones, along with Premier are the 
earliest of all. Then comes Senator Dunlap as your main 
crop variety followed by Blakemore. The everbearing varie¬ 
ties also bear big crops in May and June and give immense 
crops of berries in August, September, October and Novem¬ 
ber. Fresh berries almost the year around. 
Selected Fruiting Strains 
My strawberry plants are selected and propagated from plants 
that have fruited true to name and produced extra quality and 
extra quantity berries. You get this extra quality and extra fruit 
at no additional cost to you. Just order Earl May’s Selected 
Fruiting Strains of Strawberry plants. 
When to Plant 
Plant your berries just as early in the spring as you can after 
frost leaves the ground; that’s the one best time to set them out. 
You can plant them.on low ground; they like light soil. 
You folks in the South can get your strawberry plants early in 
February and in March. We usually are able to take care of 
orders in the Farm Belt up until the first of May. Order early 
so we can ship early. Your strawberry plants will be carefully 
handled and shipped freshly dug this spring. 
For the garden plant in rows 2 feet apart and the plants a 
foot apart in the row. Strawberries do not mix and June bearing 
varieties such as Senator Dunlap and everbearing varieties like 
Mastodon do not mix. These are all perfect flowered varieties and 
do not need any other kind planted with them to produce fruit. 
Shipped Separately 
Strawberries are not shipped with other nursery stock. They 
are sent by themselves in open-end packages carefully packed to 
reach you in first-class condition. 
Premier is the standard early strawberry for the Farm Belt. It never fails 
to produce, a big crop of big berries. It has produced as much as $1000.00 
per acre, often yielding 2 quarts per plant. The berries are large, somewhat 
square shaped and have a dark red color to them. A good keeper and a good 
shipping strawberry. Premier has been considered our best early strawberry 
until Fairfax and Dorsett came along. 
DORSETT — Another Royal Strawberry 
A variety originated by the United States Department of Agriculture. A 
cross of Premier and Royal Sovereign, this royal blood makes it a brighter red 
than Premier, gives it a longer fruiting season and flavor and eating qualities 
even superior to the Premier. 
Actual tests have proven that Dorsett will almost double the yields of 
Premier. 6,640 quarts per acre is the record of Dorsett. It’s a large sized 
berry which ripens a little earlier than the Premier and continues its bearing 
over an extremely long period of time. Order quickly as our supply of this 
new, reliable, heavy fruiting variety is limited. 
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