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Title: Allen's 1953 book of berries
Identifier: allens1953bookof19alle (find matches)
Year: 1953 (1950s)
Authors: Allen Co. (Salisbury, Md. ); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs
Publisher: Salisbury, Md. : Allen Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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16 TEMPLE SPARKLE • FAIRLAND These three varieties have proved life-savers to the strawberry industry in areas where the soil has become badly infested with red stele. Although they are not entirely immune they will usually thrive and produce profitably in red stele infested soils where non-resistant varieties would either die or be weakened into worthlessness. Temple, Sparkle and Fairland are distinctly different varieties but they have many points in common other than red stele resistance. Seasoning of Ripening: All three ripen midseason to late, with Temple and Fairland starting a few days ahead of Sparkle and all ripening over a long season. Plant Growth: All three make a vigorous plant growth with plenty of runners for an adequate fruiting bed. Productiveness: Temple, Sparkle and Fairland are all very heavy yielders, ranking with the very best in this resp)ect if grown under favorable conditions. Adaptation: All three varieties are best adapted to the middle and northern states, with ^ Temple's best area as far south as Maryland and Vir- ginia. Fairland and Sparkle should not be grown generally south of Pennsylvania, central New Jersey and southern Ohio. Temple has made outstanding yields in Maryland, New Jersey, New England and in some of the mid-western states. Sparkle has been a heavy producer in New York, New England, Penn- sylvania and New Jersey where it was originated. Excellent reports of good yields on Fairland come from Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and in two four-year tests in Massachusetts it dutyielded both Premier and Catskill. All three varieties will give you a heavy crop but like all midseason to late kinds they need a moist soil to size and mature the large crops of fruit. Good ior home and market
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CULVER Introduced several years ago by the New York Experiment Sta- tion at Geneva. It has always been a puzzle to us why Culver did not make more of a '*hit" with berry growers generally. Very few varieties that we know make larger, stronger, more beautiful foliage, and very few make larger, brighter, more hand- some berries. Quality is not high but sufficiently good for a com- mercial berry; firm enough for over-night shipment and for local markets; moderately productive. Possibly lack of great productive- ness compared with Premier and Catskill may explain its some- what limited planting. Culver is a real good berry and deserves to be tried more generally. Price list page 31.

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