' PREMIER — The Old Favorite 
No berry is so popular and so widely planted in the northern 
states as Premier. Year after year it retains its popularity as other 
varieties come and go. Premier is a sure-cropper being very frost 
resistant. It is the best extra-early berry producing large crops and 
having a long picking season. 
The berries are medium to large in size and bright red in color. 
Many of the early berries are wedge shaped but the later ones are 
quite uniformly conic. Though not as firm as Fairfax, they are firm 
enough to hold up well for shipping. Quality is good. 
Premier is a vigorous grower making a good stand of healthy 
plants. It is widely adapted to a great variety of soil and climatic 
conditions. It will produce a crop almost anywhere you wish to plant 
it. Whether you are a commercial grower or a home gardener you 
cannot go wrong on Premier for your early berries. 
For assured profits plant Premier. 
- FAIRFAX — The Quality Berry 
Fairfax is truly a great berry surpassing all others we have 
grown in quality and firmness. Every year our sales of Fairfax plants 
have increased. We have increased our plantings yearly and still 
have not always been able to supply the demand in many seasons. 
This is the best gauge of the increasing popularity of this grand berry. 
With us, Fairfax ripens a few days after Premier. The berries 
are large to very large and very firm and meaty holding up well for a 
long time after picking. The berries are bright red when they first 
ripen but turn dark as they stand either on the plant or in the basket 
until they become a dark purple. At first this was considered a fault, 
but, as the public has come to know Fairfax, the dark color has be- 
come an asset. It is the trade mark of quality by which consumers 
can readily identify genuine Fairfax berries and consumers are will- 
ing to pay a premium for the grand flavor and quality of Fairfax. 
Yields are high, at times exceeding Premier with us. The berries are 
smooth, glossy, beautiful and quite uniformly conic shaped. The 
plants grow very large with beautiful dark green healthy foliage. 
Fairfax is not as prolific a plant maker as some varieties but makes a 
good row. It is more susceptible to frost injury than Premier or Cat- 
skill. The fruiting season is exceptionally long. 
Plant Fairfax and enjoy the superb quality of nature’s finest 
strawberry. They are so sweet you can eat them without sugar. Once 
you have tasted them you will understand why we find it hard to re- 
strain our enthusiasm for Fairfax. 
‘CATSKILL — The Best Mid-season Berry 
Probably no berry ever forged ahead so rapidly as Catskill after 
its introduction by the New York State Experiment Station a few 
years ago. In a very short time it became widely planted and known 
as the best mid-season berry in the northern states. Like Premier it 
is widely tolerant of varying soil and climatic conditions. Also, like 
Premier, it is frost resistant bearing enormous crops of berries every 
year. 
The berries are large to very large, bright red and produced in 
abundance. They have a characteristically long neck and are often 
rather rough and irregular in shape. However, this does not seem to 
detract from their appearance when placed in the basket for sale. The 
