Blakemore. More acres grown than any other variety 
“It covers Dixie like the dew,” says the Atlanta Journal, a famous Southern 
newspaper. The Blakemore strawberry does just that! Unknown a few years 
ago, Blakemore today covers more acres of land than any other strawberry 
in existence, most of it in Dixie. Blakemore is the best early shipping berry 
the Southern States have ever had. It does well as far north as Maryland, 
Southern New Jersey and the Ohio Talley. Even though it has been success¬ 
ful in a few places, it is not recommended for planting farther north. 
It is the most robust grower and persistent 
plant maker ever known in the sections where 
vigorous growing varieties like Missionary and 
Klondyke have been supreme. 
Blakemore will stand more abuse and neglect 
in growing, picking and shipping than any other 
variety ever known, and still show a nice profit 
to the grower. 
Buyers and shippers like Blakemore because 
it is the best of all varieties in avoiding “bad 
condition” reports from their commission men. 
The berries are really solid and retain their 
light, attractive color even after they get quite 
ripe, thus often getting credit for being in 
even better condition than they are. 
“Cold pack” men who put up large quantities 
of berries in barrels for use in making com¬ 
mercial jams, jellies, preserves, etc. prefer 
Blakemore and in some places will not take 
any other variety. In fact, it was named for 
Marcus Blakemore, a former president of The 
American Preservers’ Association. 
In quality the berries are quite tart, which 
is probably why they are so popular with the 
cold-pack men. As fresh fruit they must have 
sugar added to be good. 
Blakemore berries are medium to large in 
size where the plants have been kept thinned— 
but they make so many plants they must be 
held in check or the plants will be too thick 
and the berries smaller. 
Yellows resistant strains —The tendency to 
sport to yellow strains which are barren or 
very low in productiveness, has been the chief 
criticism of Blakemore. Also the spotted ap¬ 
pearance of the fields badly affected with yel¬ 
lows has been a source of annoyance to the 
better growers who take pride in their berry 
fields. 
Strains of Blakemore found to be resistant 
to this trouble are now available at very low 
prices. We are offering only these new strains 
and we have very excellent stocks of them. 
Previous to 1940 these new strains, recom¬ 
mended by the Dept, of Agriculture, had shown 
no yellows at all. During the growing season 
of 1940, however, traces of yellows appeared 
in these same stocks. Not enough to be a 
problem, but still not 100% free. Our plant 
inspectors tell us that all growers are finding- 
traces of yellows in these so-called yellows-free 
strains. They should therefore be sold as 
yellows-resistant rather than entirely yellows- 
free. 
With our disease resistant plants, yellows 
need no longer be a limiting factor in Blake¬ 
more production. The size, vigor and root and 
crown development of our Blakemore plants 
assure you a fine start in growing large crops 
of these beautiful, firm shipping berries. Price 
list of plants, page 35. 
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