20 J. H. Shivers Plant Farms, Allen, Maryland 
FAIRPEAKE 
A U.S. Department of Agriculture cross of Fairfax and Chesapeake. It 
is a better plant maker than the Chesapeake. 
The size and firmness of berries equal the Chesapeake. The quality of 
berries are as good as the Fairfax. You will not go wrong in trying a few of 
these plants. 
LUPTON 
The fruit is very firm and extremely handsome, in fact, I do not know of 
any kind in existance today that shows up to better advantage when crated, 
and it is as productive as any kind we have ever grown that was a real fancy 
berry. It is a perfect flowering kind and is suitable for pollenization purposes 
if needed, ripening in midseason. It is not a rampant plant maker, but has 
never failed to make a good bed for us and the plants are heavily rooted and 
full of vigor. I say again, if you want a strictly fancy berry, plant Lupton, 
but we do not advise that it be planted on any but a good, rich soil. I have an 
unusually fine stock of plants for this year and feel sure that those who 
plant these will pick a heavy crop of berries in 1955. In this immediate 
vicinity it has partly supplanted the long time popular Big Joe, chiefly because 
it suffers less frost damage. 
