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Title: Allen's book of berries for 1939
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_23 (find matches)
Year: 1939 (1930s)
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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A fine cluster of Mastodon berries
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Everbearing Strawberries A Real Prize in the Family Garden BIG LUSCIOUS strawberries can be had all through late summer and fall until freezing weather. This idea of having strawberries out of the regular season has become so popular that thousands now grow them regularly. It is no longer an experiment. Have some for yourself. They start bearing only a few weeks after plants are set. Plants set in March or April start bearing in July and August. This is quicker than most vegetable crops are harvested and much quicker than any other fruit crop. A fine crop the following spring is produced by most Everbearing varieties. When conditions are favorable a third crop—the second fall crop—is made within eighteen months after plants are set. Better varieties have made Everbearers a money crop. More growers every year are finding them profitable. Gem and Mastodon are the best, with Green Mountain and Wayzata well liked in Northern States. In the South, Everbearers are suggested for home gardens only; but in the Middle and Northern states they are worth trying commercially. Where conditions are right they will pay. Even if local conditions are unsuitable or weather conditions unfavorable for the fall crop, the spring crop is pretty good insurance against loss. Selling the berries is easy. Roadside markets provide a good retail outlet, wholesale dealers like them. As this is written (November 10, 1938) our own shipments of Gem are bringing 25c per pint in Baltimore and Philadelphia. Fine Results from Gem in Minnesota Beltrami Co., Minn. Nov. 9th, 1938. I was very well pleased with the plants I got from you last spring. Two days after I set them out we had a sleet storm followed by three inches of snow and a hard freeze. I thought my plants would be all gone. However all of the Gem lived and most of the Mastodon. The Gem also had more berries than the Mastodon by far, so it looks like the Gem is the best Everbearer for this part of the countrv. Your plants have proved to be O. K—Mr. E. B. Fay. Gem Excellent in Maine Cumberland Co., Maine. Sept. 5, 1938, We have had an abnormally wet season. I set around 3,250 plants and, as usual with Gem, we weathered the gale. I have already picked 1,000 pints and should have almost two months to go yet. One year I picked to mid-Xovember. I have secured a minimum of 20c per pint wholesale and 25c retail and am usually booked ahead for the next picking. I look for better than 2,000 pints from this block this first season. I never have to hunt for a market. My roadside markets (2) took all I got in August and the best market in town takes all of them now. Expect to set around 15,000 next year and I can assure you they won't be anything but Gem.—Mr. Bassett P. Perkins. 28

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