Hagerstrom’s New Patented re fa D (> fi C rt Everbearing Strawberry 
(Formerly named “Red Glo’) 
A new berry of unusual merit des- 
tined for a great future both as a com- 
mercial berry and a plant for general 
purposes in the home garden. It has 
arrested the attention of Horticulturists 
and Nurserymen throughout the coun- 
try and is highly recommended by 
those who have observed its perform- 
ance in the field. 
Recommended by our Minnesota 
State Department of Horticulture to be 
an outstanding everbearing variety 
with June bearing potentialities equal 
to the best of the June bearing varieties. Also recom- 
mended by the Departments of Horticulture of other 
states which have made tests of its performance. 
HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION 
Hagerstrom’s New, Patented “Red Rich” Everbear- 
ing Strawberry is a brand new origination in ever- 
bearing strawberries developed by an enterprising 
young horticulturist on the home farm at Enfield, near 
St. Cloud, Minn. 
The Hagerstrom is a cross of Wayzata by Fairfax, 
the product of fifteen years of patient endeavor and 
trials with over 15,000 seedlings and innumerable 
crosses with different varieties, and is so outstanding 
and so superior to all other varieties of everbearing 
strawberries that it will supersed them as sufficient 
plants become available to the strawberry growing 
public for home garden or commercial purposes. 
“RED RICH” is hardy. 
It reproduces freely. 
The plant is vigorous and extremely hardy and re- 
sistant to severe weather conditions where they have 
been grown, well up in the northern part of Minnesota. 
The plants multiply freely, each parent plant setting 
three, to as many as ten or more new plants, starting 
the reproductive process early in the season. We have 
observed as many as 32 new plants produced from a 
single mother plant. However, plants set late in the 
season will produce few if any new plants. The earlier 
new plants to set, themselves, begin to develop other 
plants and to shoot up fruit bearing stems whicn begin 
bearing during the season. The plants produce enor- 
mous yields of fruit that are uniformly 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 
by mildew, leaf discoloration or other common plant 
diseases to which most other varieties of strawberries 
are subject. On account of the robust characteristics 
of the plant and foliage, Hagerstrom’s “Red Rich” 
Strawberry is remarkably disease resistant. 
The Fruit-Color-Quality-Flavor 
The fruit is rather wedge shaped resembling the 
Fairfax and having its color and substance as well as 
most of the good qualities of the Wayzata. It is a 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 with an inviting heavy aroma. It 
Case of “Red Rich” Berries 
Picked Nov. 1, 1950 
Plant Patent No. 993 
is a fine canning and preserving variety 
and on account of its deep red color is 
especially adapted to freezing. 
The June Crop 
The June crop of fruit from Hager- 
strom’s “Red Rich” 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 
supply of the June berry crop where it 
is grown with other varieties. In mat- 
ted rows the June crop of RED RICH is greater than 
that of any June bearing variety. 
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. 
This past season, which was very dry, from one 
acre of RED RICH planted in May, without irrigation, 
we harvested 6,500 pints of fruit from August first to 
November first. In addition nearly 500 pints were 
used for table, preserving and freezing for home use. 
A single plant of Hagerstrom’s “Red Rich” Straw- 
berry 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. The per plant yield of RED 
RICH is greater than that of any other strawberry. 
We Liked “Red Rich” Immediately 
Although we had been advised of the existence of 
the newly originated everbearer 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 perfect 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. Hagerstrom 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 condi- 
tion. 
We Have Exclusive “Potting” Rights 
We are one of the five interested parties in the own- 
ership and promotion of Hagerstrom’s “Red Rich” 
Everbearing Strawberry and are completely sold on 
