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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
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The Neverfail Everbearing Strawberry 
By L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y. 
and sweetness than the Superb and you know when you are eating 
them that you are eating real strawberries. 
On Oct 10th, 1919, we made a test of the comparative productive¬ 
ness of Neverfail and the Minnesota No. 1017, which variety has 
always stood high with us in the line of productiveness. We had 
the two varieties growing side by side under practically the same 
conditions. On this day, the same length of rows of Neverfail pick¬ 
ed just double the number of quarts that the Minnesota No. 1017 
did and the fruit of the Neverfail is much finer and better in ap¬ 
pearance than the Minnesota No. 1017. The basket of berries 
shown full life size in the illustration on this page, was picked and 
photographed Oct. 27th, 1919. It will be noted that exactly 16 ber¬ 
ries top a quart basket. 
We own and control all the available plants of the Neverfail 
strawberry. We have been handling strawberry plants for 37 years 
and believe we know when we have a good thing. Now is the time 
to stock up with the Neverfail strawberry plants. They surely will 
be great sellers like the Superb and Progressive have been. No one 
ever lost a cent by investing in our introductions, they are all suc¬ 
cesses. We were the first to recommend the fall or everbearing 
strawberries. We point with pride to these and numerous other 
strawberry varieties we have introduced; to the Plum Parmer, 
Idaho and Royal Purple raspberries and at present, to the new ever- 
bearing red raspberry “Erskine Park.” Write for prices Oui 
beautifully illustrated catalogue tells all about these and our J ull 
line of nursery plants. 
Address L. J. Farmer, Pulaski, N. Y. —Adv. 
This new everlasting strawberry is a seedling of the Bubaeh straw¬ 
berry hand pollentaed with pollen from the famous Superb ever- 
bearing strawberry and was originated by D. J. Miller of Ohio who 
is the originator of the King Edward strawberry and other varie¬ 
ties and who also claims to be the originator of the Plum Farm¬ 
er raspberry. It was produced in a lot of 500 seedlings in 1912 
and was the only one of the 500 that was retained. The orig¬ 
inator discarded all the other seedlings and also the Superb 
for this new No. 200, which has since been named the “Never¬ 
fail.” 
My attention was first attracted to the new seedling by 
the receipt of a letter from Matthew Crawford of Cuyahoga Falls, 
Ohio, who has long been known as the most reliable of strawberry 
growers. Mr. Crawford advised me to investigate the merits of th6 
new seedling of Mr. Miller’s, saying it was the best fall or ever- 
bearing strawberry that he had ever tested. In a later letter Mr. 
Crawford wrote me that after testing the new seedling No. 200 of 
Miller’s he had no use for any other everbearing strawberry. 
In the spring of 1918, I induced Mr. Miller to send me a dozen 
plants of his seedling to test. I set them out in early May along¬ 
side of Americus Superb, Minnesota No. 1017 and others and gave 
them good average care. They yielded heavily all throughout the 
latter part of the summer and fall and when winter closed in, there 
were still many large berries on the plants. They seemed so much 
better and more productive than the other everbearing kinds that 
they could be put in a class by themselves. 
During the fall and early winter of 1918, I had much correspond¬ 
ence with Mr. Miller, with the result that I purchased the entire 
stock of the new seedling, which was finally named the “Neverfail” 
by Mr. Miller. 
In the spring of 1919 these plants were dug up and shipped to me 
by Mr Miller. We had quite a trade in them among growers and 
what plants remained, were finally set out in the field during the 
month of June. They made a good growth and have increased nice- 
lv so we think that from the 6000 plants originally set, we have 
about 40000 new 
plants. These plants 
bore heavily all dur- 
the latter part of 
summer and fall, 
to the time that 
ground froze sol- 
about Dec. 1st. 
This variety fruits 
on the young runner 
plants quite freely 
as well as the old oi 
parent plant. Another 
peculiarity about it 
is that it bears heav- 
ily when the plant 
makes many new 
runners and young 
The plant 
in the illus- 
had twelve 
ripe berries on it at 
the time it was pho¬ 
tographed, as well as 
many green berries 
and blossoms, and i 
dug this plant out 
from a solid matted 
row of plants'in the 
thickest part of a 
wide row. 
mg 
the 
up 
the 
id, 
plants. 
shown 
tration 
The berries of the 
Neverfail are of the 
Superb class like the 
plants. It is larp 
and attractive like 
the Superb but pos¬ 
sibly not quite so 
glossy and beautiful 
as that variety, but 
the fruit will pass 
for the Superb. Any 
one who has grown 
the Superb as long 
as I have, knows 
that its two great 
weaknesses, are lack 
of productiveness m 
platted rows in the 
fall of the first year 
and lack of charac¬ 
ter to its flavor. The 
Neverfail is full y 
four times as pro¬ 
ductive under same 
conditions as Superb 
with us and Mr. 
Miller makes the 
claim that it is three 
times ais produdtive 
with him. In charac¬ 
ter of flavor, the 
Neverfail is equal to 
most of the varieties 
of strawberries as 
usually grown. It 
has much more acid 
One quart basket of the new Neverfail everbearing strawberry, photographed exactly natural size, 
Oct. 27th, 1919. 
