HEWITT’S Mountain (ftourn PLANTS 
All our plants arc grown on virgin mountain soil, re¬ 
cently cleared of a heavy growth of oak and chaparrel 
that has been depositing leaf mould for generations. 
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 Bernardino mountains, where 
we have plenty of freezing weather and snow. The grow¬ 
ing season here for berry plants is about eight months. 
This is six weeks to two months longer than the average 
plant growing season and makes our plants exceptionally 
large, strong, and vigorous, so that our everbearing varieties 
are ready to start right in fruiting as soon as they get 
established. 
For the past eighteen years we have been growing 
everbearing strawberries for a special trade and have tried 
about every variety introduced during this time. We are 
listing only the varieties that have been successful commer¬ 
cially with us or arc especially adapted to home garden 
use such as Champion, Wayzata and Rockhill. 
Since its introduction in 1934 Gem has so far outclassed 
all other varieties as a profit maker that we are now plant¬ 
ing mostly Gem. And judging from the orders received 
for plants last year and from reports generally Gem is 
taking the lead everywhere. 
EVERBEARERS IN CALIFORNIA 
In this climate the strawberry is almost a perfect Ever- 
bearing fruit. This is particularly true of the newer 
varieties of strawberry, aptly and truthfully called Ever- 
bearing, in the sense that they set new blossoms and fruit 
continuously over a pe-iod of several months. Throughout 
most of the United States there are the commonly called 
Standard or Spring-bearing and Everbearing varieties of 
strawberries. The Standard or Spring-bearing varieties in 
most localities fruit only two to four weeks in May and 
June, twelve to fourteen months after setting in March, 
April, and May of the preceeding year. Then you wait 
another 12 months for the next crop. 
Although there is less distinction here in California be¬ 
tween the Standard and Everbearing varieties than else¬ 
where, there is a very real and important difference here. 
It is this: The true Everbearing varieties set in Febmary 
and March begin fruiting the May and June following, 
about three months from planting. With the New Gem, 98 
per cent of the plants set will bear a crop of berries in 
three or four months from planting. 
