STRAWBERRY SPECIALIST 
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CATSKILL 
Catskili (Per.) Midseason. The Catskill is a 
new variety from the New York Experiment Station 
at Geneva, N. Y. A midseason berry, ripens about 
a week after Howard 17. Awarded a medal by the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Boston for its 
large size and handsome appearance. A cross of 
Marshall and Howard 17. The plants are large, very 
vigorous and yield very heavy crops. The berries 
are very large, firm, bright red in color, glossy and 
attractive and good in quality. The Catskill on rich 
land makes too many plants and should not be al¬ 
lowed to set too many, as we find the largest and 
finest berries are always where plants are fairly 
wide apart. The Catskill keeps good size to the last 
picking and to be at its best should have fairly 
heavy and rich land. Anyone growing for market 
cannot go wrong in planting Howard 17 for early 
and Catskill for midseason to late. 
The Catskill berries are produced on strong 
stems that keep the berries up off the ground. They 
dry off after heavy rain, and you get very few rotten 
berries. Not quite as heavy a cropper as the Howard. 
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Official Certificate No. 55 Boston, July 10, 1939 
To whom it may concern: 
This is to certify that I have this fifth day of July com¬ 
pleted the inspection of the strawberry stock of George 
Rennie grown at Andover, State of Massachusetts, and find 
it to be apparently free from all injurious insects and 
diseases which might be transferred on nursery stock from 
the nursery to the orchard or garden. 
This certificate good until July 1, 1940. 
Inspected by J. A. Kimball (Signed) R. H. Allen, Director. 
