DORSETT 
A Royal Strawberry 
By planting an assortment of these “best” varieties including 
Gem and Mastodon, you can have fresh Strawberries from your 
own garden from early Spring until freezing weather. Lengthen 
your berry season by planting Fairfax, Dorsett and Premier for 
the earliest. Blakemore and Senator Dunlap should be your 
main crop varieties. Gem and Mastodon give you big crops in 
May and June and large yield of berries in August, September, 
October and November. Fresh Strawberries almost the year 
around. 
Selected Fruiting Strains 
My Strawberry plants are selected and propagated from the high¬ 
est yielding plants that have fruited true to name and have pro¬ 
duced extra quality fruit. You get these extra quality and extra 
select fruiting strains at no additional cost to you when you 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 get into 
the ground. That is the one best time to set them out. You can 
plant them on low ground; they like light soil. For garden planting 
set the rows 2 feet apart, plants 1 foot apart in rows. 
You folks in the South can get your Strawberry Plants early in 
February and March. Usually we are able to take care of orders up 
until the first of May. Order early so we can ship early. 
Different kinds of Strawberries do not mix so June bearing varie¬ 
ties, such as Dunlap or Everbearing varieties like Mastodon can be 
planted together. All varieties I offer you are perfect flowered and 
do not need any other kind planted with them to produce fruit. 
Fresh Dug—Shipped Separately 
I send you only fresh dug plants. 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. 
A variety originated by the United States Depart¬ 
ment 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 Pre¬ 
mier. 
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 Premier and continues its bearing over an ex¬ 
tremely long period of time. Order quickly as our supply 
of this new, reliable, heavy fruiting variety is limited. 
RIES 
Imost the Year Around 
Senator 
Dunlap 
PREMIER—EXTRA EARLY 
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 qnd have 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. 
SENATOR DUNLAP 
The old, reliable main crop Strawberry for the Farm Belt. Bears well every 
year, producing largest crops of good size marketable berries. Every home 
gardener, every commercial planter and every experimenter relies on Senator 
Dunlap as a sure producer every year. It’s a great drought resister, too. 
My extra select fruiting strain gives you all the productiveness of the orig¬ 
inal strain plus improved quality of the berpies. The greatest main crop 
berry for the Farm Belt. 
Page 14—Earl E. May Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
