Hewitt’s Quality Plants 
Hewitt’s Mountain Grown Strawberry plants are 
all grown on virgin mountain soil just cleared of 
a heavy growth of oak and chaparral that has 
been depositing leaf mold for centuries. This 
fertile soil and the overhead sprinkler system of 
irrigation now used entirely, insures strong, 
healthy plants that cannot be surpassed for 
quality anywhere in the United States. 
Our ranch and nursery is at an elevation of 
3,500 feet, on the north slope of the San Bernar¬ 
dino mountains, where we have plenty of freezing 
weather and snow. The growing season here for 
berry plants is about eight months. This is six 
weeks to two months longer than the average 
plant growing section and makes our plants ex¬ 
ceptionally large, strong, and vigorous, so that 
our everbearing varieties are ready to start right 
in fruiting as soon as they get established. 
We have been specializing in everbearing straw¬ 
berries for fifteen years and have tried about 
every variety introduced during this time. For 
several years we have grown everbearers com¬ 
mercially for a special trade and are listing only 
those varieties that have been money makers 
for us. 
Last year Champion (Progressive) were almost 
a failure and Mastodon were only fair but Lucky 
Strike in the same patch produced the best spring 
crop we have ever had and Gem, the finest fall 
crop from spring set plants that we have ever 
seen. In addition to plenty of runners, every 
mother plant and many of the runner plants, 
produced great clusters of extra fancy berries as 
the photograph taken in October shows. 
FACTS ABOUT EVERBEARERS 
They do bear a good profitable crop of berries 
the first year. A net profit of $300.00 to $400.00 
per acre the first season within eight months 
from setting can be made on Gem and Lucky 
Strike in almost any California climate. Mastodon 
is not as dependable as a fall producer the first 
year. Plants set in February and March begin 
bearing in June and July and bear continuously 
until November and December. No other crop 
can be relied on to return so quick and so large 
a profit as Everbearing Strawberries. 
In addition to this crop the first fall we get 
a good spring crop and often another full crop 
in July and August and a lighter fourth crop in 
