early in the season. The earlier new 
plants to set, themselves, begin to de- 
velop other plants and to shoot up fruit 
bearing stems which begin bearing dur- 
ing the season. The plants produce 
enormous yields of fruit that are uni- 
formly large in size throughout the 
bearing season. 
Foliage-Disease Resistance 
The foliage is heavy and of a velvety 
green color resembling the foliage of the 
Wayzata but tending to be fuller, more 
rugged and is, apparently, little affected 

Single Plant of “Red Glo” Loaded 
with Fruit in October 
by mildew, leaf discoloration or other 
common plant diseases to which most 
other varieties of strawberries are sub- 
ject. On account of the robust charac- 
teristics of the plant and foliage, Hager- 
strom’s “Red Glo” Strawberry is re- 
markably disease resistat. 
The Fruit-Color-Quality-Flavor 
The fruit is rather wedge shaped re- 
resembling the Fairfax and having its 
color and substance as well as most of 
the good qualities of the Wayzata. It isa 
deep dark red in color, red to the core, 
large in size, firm in texture, making it 
a good shipping variety; of superior 
quality and flavor but lacking the heavy 
aroma peculiar to Wayzata. It is a fine 
canning and preserving variety and on 
account of its deep red color is espe- 
cially adapted to freezing. 
The June Crop 
The June crop of fruit from Hager- 
strom’s “Red Glo” Everbearing Straw- 
berry is later than that of most of the 
popular June bearing varieties grown in 
this locality and this characteristic of 
the plant lengthens the season of sup- 
ply of the June berry crop where it is 
grown with other varieties. 
Fall Crop—Acre Yield 
Mr. Hagerstrom kept a careful record 
of the fall production of fruit from one 
acre of his new plants from August 1 to 
October 23, 1949 and has reported a total 
yield of 4,000 quarts of berries which he 
sold at an average price of 50c per quart 
at wholesale. In addition to this yield 
the plants produced a June crop of fruit 
greater per plant than that of any June 
bearing variety of strawberries which 
he had growing in his fields. 
A single plant of Hagerstrom’s “Red 
Glo” Strawberry will often produce as 
much as half a pint of fruit at a single 
picking. It will pay for itself in fruit 
the same season planted. 
Although we had been advised of the 
existence of the newly originated ever- 
bearer in the fall of 1948 by Mr. George 
Nelson, a state nursery inspector who 
inspected our premises, and had become 
interested in it, we had not visited Mr. 
Hagerstrom’s field of one and one-half 
acres of these plants until October 16, 
1949 when we made a special trip for 
investigation. 
The fall weather had been mild and 
the plants in the field still were in per- 
fect bearing condition. On October 15 
the field had been closely picked, and 
the berries marketed, yet the plants 
hung full of partially ripe and green 
berries of uniformly large size that 
made an unforgetable impression. Just 
before we arrived at his place Mr. Hag- 
erstrom had picked a case of berries for 
a customer that were the finest that I 
have ever seen. Remember, this was 
October 16. 
We picked a box of ripe berries from 
the field to take with us to test their 
keeping qualities and still, on the 19th, 
under normal living room conditions 
and temperature, most of the berries 
were in good condition. 
We are completely sold on the merits 
of Hagerstrom’s new everbearing straw- 
berry and stake our reputation of 35 
years in the strawberry business to pro- 
mote its sale to, and cultivation by, the 
home gardener or the commercial grow- 
er. We were the first to purchase prop- 
agating stock from the originators of the 
Wayzata and again we are the first to 
purchase propagating stock of Hager- 
strom’s “Red Glo” Everbearing Straw- 
berry and have purchased the exclusive 
potting rights for the U.S.A. to pot these 
plants and to reproduce and to offer 
them to our customers. You can make 
no mistake in getting started with this 
new everbearing strawberry in your 
locality, either for a home garden berry 
or for commercial production. It has a 
future unsurpassed by any strawberry 
yet introduced. 
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