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EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES 
The amazing increase in the popularity of Everbearers 
is due to their appeal as a delightful and useful home 
garden crop and to their showing as a money crop! 
They are a treat! Some of the varieties have a high dessert quality and are 
good to eat right off the vines. Others are just tart enough to need a little sugar to 
bring out their full flavor. 
Out of season—-but here they are. Berries in August, September, October, Novem- 
ber. Berries in the garden—tfresh berries on the table—strawberry shortcake, berries 
to surprise your friends and share with them. Big lucious berries when they are not 
supposed to be here. That's what has appealed to so many. 
You don’t have to wait. No other fruit crop can touch them for speedy action. 
Just imagine setting plants in March or April—and harvesting a crop from August to 
November of the same year. They start bearing only a few weeks after the plants are set. 
Easy to grow. See next page for details, but remember here that any good 
garden or farm soil that will grow spring berries or other garden crops successfully 
will produce Everbearing strawberries satisfactorily. 
A good cash crop! Here’s how it started. A few plants did well in a garden. 
More were set the following year. These yielded enough for a surplus. The berries 
were so easily sold at such good prices that larger plantings were made to grow berries 
for local market. Now many fall berries are shipped even to wholesale markets. In 
marketing we have found pint baskets more suitable for Everbearers than quarts. We 
caution growers not to jump into Everbearers blindly as a business. Try a few hundred, 
or even a few dozen, first. If these do well it is logical to expand. 
The spring crop. This gives the grower a second chance. If the expected sum- 
mer and fall crop does not come up to expectations (and fall crops are not as sure as 
spring crops) it isn’t as bad as it might be. There’s a spring crop coming along just as 
if you had planted regular spring varieties in the first place. Mastodon and Green 
Mountain are the best spring croppers among the Everbearers. 
