One of the reasons for this great interest in Sparkle is its out- 
standing freezing qualities. In a freezing test at the New York State 
Experiment Station involving 300 varieties of strawberries, Sparkle 
topped them all for quality. Sparkle is being widely planted for both 
home and commercial freezing. 
Sparkle, however, is not just a top freezing berry. It is excellent 
for fresh use either as a home garden or a commercial berry. The 
bright red shining berries truly “Sparkle” in the basket and have an 
irresistable eye appeal to the consumer. In addition to eye appeal, 
Sparkle has the quality and fiavor to bring buyers back for more. The 
berries are medium to large in size, smooth and uniform. They are 
firm in texture and hold up well. Yields are high. 
Sparkle is as outstanding in its plant characteristics as in its 
fruit. The plants are vigorous, healthy and prolific. The leaves are 
a beautiful dark green with no trace of the leaf troubles that afflict 
many varieties. Visitors to our farm remark on the outstanding vigor 
and growth of the Sparkle beds. We have grown Sparkle under 
many unfavorable conditions where other varieties have failed to put 
out a normal number of plants, but have never yet failed to get a 
good row. Even in 1947, when our area was plagued with daily rains 
all spring so that we could not set our plants until June and when 
we had severe drouth conditions later in the summer, Sparkle came 
thru with a good stand of plants. All other varieties except Robin- 
son, which was also good, set less than 50% of a stand of plants. 
If you are already a Sparkle booster, we need say no more. If 
not, you will surely want to try Sparkle this year. It is an excellent 
mid-season to late variety for home or commercial use. 
* MIDLAND — A New Heavy Yielder 
Midland, a new variety from..Maryland, impressed us with the 
size, quantity and beauty of the berries and by their fine distinctive 
fiavor. In our section they were one of the earliest berries to ripen and 
continued to bear large, firm, bright red berries over a long picking 
season. 
The plants are large and healthy and produced in moderate num- 
bers. 
Recommended as an excellent freezing variety. 
Make a trial planting of Midland and see its many excellent qual- 
ities for yourself. 
- FATIRPEAK — A High Quality Late Berry 
Fairpeake is a cross between Fairfax and Chesapeake and com- 
bines many of the best qualities of both. It is a large handsome firm 
high quality late berry. It is not a prolific plant maker but is better 
than Chesapeake in that respect. The plants are robust and healthy. 
For the home garden Fairpeake will probably excell Robinson as 
a late berry because of its top notch quality. In commercial plantings 
Robinson is probably the better berry because of its tremendous yields. 
» RED STAR — The Latest of All 
Red Star was developed by the U. S. D. A. recently and has been 
advertised as the best late variety. The plants are very large but 
make only a moderate number of new plants. Red Star sets such a 
very heavy crop of berries that it needs a plentiful supply of moisture 
to mature them to good size. The berries are very large but with us 
they tend to grow small and somewhat knotty if conditions become 
hot and dry. Red Star is bright red, firm and somewhat rough and 
irregular in shape. Quality is good. We recommend that you give 
Red Star a trial. 
