THE PLANSBURGH & POTTER CO. CATALOGUE 
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were just as bright and firm as when received. 
Later, September IS. 1905, Mr. Allen says: New Home has again proven to be the 
greatest money maker on my farm. I shipped it the past season by the car load, and it 
always sold for more money than any other variety on the market. It produces big 
crops. It is easy to pick. Its color is brilliant scarlet and does not fade or turn dark 
after picking. It keeps longer than any other variety. It sells for more money be¬ 
cause it will keep and hold its color longer than any other variety on the market. 
P n Ampriran (Perfect.) This is simply a sport from the Bismarck 
I all /American strawberry by bud variation that originated in New York 
while no doubt it is entirely distinct it resembles that variety in berry very 
closely, but it makes so few plants, “some plants not producing a single runner, 
and others very few,” that we get sold out quickly even at the price and hardly 
save but few for each season to reset. But it is a sure enough everbearer, and 
the greatest novelty in strawberries ever introduced. For years we have been 
testing every so-called everbearer that we could hear of, but have never found 
one that could bo depended upon to produce berries in the summer and fall in 
any quantity, unless the regular season had been cut short by frost or drouth, 
followed by extreme favorable conditions later in the season until the advent of 
the Pan American. 
We have now fruited Pan American three years, and each season we have 
been continually picking off blossoms and green and ripe berries throughout the 
summer and fall to induce them to make a few more plants if possible, but the 
fruiting habit is so strong that nothing short of the ground frozen hard will 
stop it. They keep on building up new crowns and throwing out fruit stems to 
the last, but very few new plants. 
We do not want to drop this variety from our collection. Neither do we 
want to recommend it. It is a novelty, the only everbearing strawberry that we 
know. How much of value there may be in it under glass for berries in the 
winter, or for out door growing in the West and South Coast States we do not 
know. 
Stevens Late Champion, 
heard a good deal in praise of this new berry 
and from its healthy vigorous plant growth we are inclined to think, it will 
prove up what is claimed for it. It is a splendid grower with long runners and 
tall dark green foliage. The originator says: 
Very large, fine flavored, bright color, good shipper, a fine bed maker, a heavy ylelder, 
fine foliage ranging from twelve to fourteen inches high, with a good fruit stem. 
This berry averaged 7,556 quarts per acre in 1902, netting $666.96 per acre; selling as 
high as 22 cents per quart in New York market last season. It has been tested on all 
kinds of soil, and will grow successfully where any strawberry will grow. It will 
stand a drouth better than any other berry in this section. 
Its name, '‘Champion,’’ was given it by a lot of berry growers, some saying it would 
■challenge the world. 
It ripens later than the Gandy, and lasts until the fourth of July any season. It 
has never shown any sign of rust. The cap, which is double, has always kept green 
until the last of the season. 
W. S. Todd, of Delaware, says: Stevens’ Late Champion originated in New 
Jersey and is largely planted there, and a good many were planted in other sec¬ 
tions last spring. I am sure it is a good variety. A friend of mine who grows 
25 acres of Gandy every year went to New Jersey last season especially to see 
it in fruiting and says it is larger and more productive than Gandy, and that 
he will plant several acres of it in the spring. 
rnmmnnwpaltM Perfect,) Plants received in 1903 from Win. H. Monroe, 
VyOIIlIIlOIlWcallll 0 f Massachusetts, the introducer, who says: 
Commonwealth is the outcome of a desire to lengthen the strawberry season. This 
has been accomplished. In the Commonwealth we have a berry that is as large as the 
largest, as productive as any of the largest, as fine flavored, as solid and as d^.rk col¬ 
ored as any. It is smooth (similar to Jucunda in shape) and very juicy. It has a 
strong staminate blossom. It is late. On the 18th of July, 1902. as good berries were 
picked as during its season, and in quality,, Marshall, Glen Mary and McKinley side by 
side with it being gone. The last berries were picked July 22. The plant is a good 
strong grower, hardy, shows no sign of rust, a good plant maker. The Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, always ready to recognize special merit, awarded Commonwealth 
first prize in competition July 5, 1902, and July 11, 1903. 
J. J. H. Gregory, the well known seedsman, says: 
I saw Commonwealth on the grounds of the originator, Mr. Wm. H. Monroe, and a 
grand sight it was. The berry is tremendously large, symmetrical in shape, with a rich, 
glossy, deep red color, nearly as dark as the Marshall. It is a great cropper, and ap¬ 
pears hard fleshed and firm. One of its most valuable characteristic is its lateness in 
ripening, for when I was there, July 2d, the large bed which had bushels of growing 
fruit had to be searched quite carefully to find a quart of ripe berries. 
