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Title: Allen's 1954 book of berries
Identifier: allens1954bookof19alle (find matches)
Year: 1954 (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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10 FAIRFAX If you've never eaten Fairfax you've never had the best! Well grown Fairfax berries provide a taste-treat. Fairfax is fine in many ways but the superb quality and dark color of the berries have made it the best roadside market or home garden berry of all. Wherever the consumer is near the producer Fairfax growers can sell at top prices all the Fairfax berries they can produce. "I want those large dark berries, they are so good," is a comment frequently heard. Fairfax plants make a beautiful healthy foliage, so pretty that Fairfax is often used in border plantings where beauty of the foliage is important. The very large blossoms add to the beauty of the plant growth, Fairfax plants are very productive, although not quite as heavy bearers as Premier. The first Fairfax berries are usually very broad, and later berries more nearly round. They are a bright red when they first ripen but after holding for several days turn a deep dark red, and finally almost purple before they start to decay. This fact makes Fairfax somewhat unpopular as a large scale commercial berry. The bright red newly ripened berries mixed with the nearly purple dark berries missed at the previous picking, give Fairfax a mottled appearance which is not attractive. When handled properly Fairfax berries are beautiful in appearance, making one think of highly polished mahogany. Fairfax berries ripen in the latitude of Mary- land two or three days after Premier. When grown farther north Fairfax becomes later comparatively, so that in New York state it is a midseason to late variety. Fairfax is adapted to about the same region as Premier. In this region it can be the most delightful spot in any home garden or small commercial planting. Price list page 31. Winnebago Co., Ills., Feb. 5, 1953. "Please do not sub- stitute lor Fairfax plants ordered. We have had your Fairfax for years and last year, a poor strawberry year here, we had a wonderful crop and our customers thought they were the finest flavored berries they had ever eaten. Have orders for all our berries from old customers for next year." Ben H. Blackmex Venango Co., Penna., April 14, 1953. "I have bought Allen's plants many times in previous years and have recom- mended them to several friends. About three or four years ago I picked 980 quarts from 500 Fairfax plants. For my part I'll stick to Fairfax for flavor that no other berry can touch." C. V. BuKchfield Fairfax, finest quality
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