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LASSEN and SHASTA STRAWBERRIES 
We are offering some of the finest strawberry 
Raenee we have ever seen, of the Lassen and 
hasta varieties, the most popular commercial 
varieties in California. These are beautiful 
plants with long white roots, growing in a silty 
sandy loam which you know makes for good, clean 
root growth. The mother plants came Aon plants 
which came direct from the University at Davis. 
These plants are growing in virgin soil in an 
1solated location, far from any other berry 
plants, and are kept well watered by overhead 
irrigation. 
The county inspector inspected this field of 
plants on Oct. 22 and could find no cyclamen 
mites, nematodes nor other pests. 
The location is in the same general area 
where the Driscoll] berry farms grow their 
plants, in the northern part of the state but 
not far north in the rain belt which includes 
the far northern part of California and Oregon 
where it rains so much sometimes that it is 1m- 
possible to dig plants for weeks at times. Where 
our plants are growing the rainfall is not so 
heavy and the nature of the soil is such that 
plants can be dug shortly after a rain. 
_A party of Japanese berry farmers from San 
Diego county inspected this field of iar in 
October just after inspecting other fields of 
plants farther north, and pronounced them the 
cleanest and best plants they had seen, after 
examining them minutely with microscopes. 
These plants can be shipped to you as soon as 
your order is dug, or we can place them in cold 
storage in Modesto for three weeks before git 
ping, whichever you prefer. Perhaps you will 
place them in cold storage after you receive 
them. 31 to 32 degrees 1s recommended. 
Plants kept in cold storage for a period of 
three weeks or more before planting have been 
found to make a far better growth and to yield 
much better crops than do BL set out fresh 
dug. 
Lassen is in most favor with commercial grow- 
ers here in the south due to its very high yield 
while Shasta seems to be favored in the north. 
