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Title: Allen's book of berries for 1940
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_24 (find matches)
Year: 1940 (1940s)
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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^(^Qtb eatQt6 -^ot^K i^etulrodii y Quick starting is a term usually applied to gasoline and motor cars, but Everbearing straw- berries are the "quick starters" of tbe fruit world. Plants set in April under good conditions may be allowed to start bearing by late July or early August—only a few weeks after plants are set! They are easy to grow. Anyone who has a plot of good garden soil can have delicious Everbearing strawberries all summer and fall until freezing weather. The directions are simple and anyone can do it. Strawberry shortcake with fresh berries from your own garden in SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER —NOVEMBER—Xot bad!! Part of the kick comes in having them out of regular season. These modern everbearing varieties bear a fine crop the following spring, some of them showing up pretty good in comparison to regular spring bearing kinds. It's even claimed that growers who have conditions just right for everbearers get another crop the second summer and fall. Three crops in eighteen months from the same plants! Well, maybe so, but we think the story is good enough when held more nearly to what can be expected on the average. Making money with Everbearers. That's some- thing that is being done, and more growers are doing it every year. Don't make a headlong plunge into the business, but anyone who has had good yields from a few hundred or even a few dozen plants is well justified in increasing their everbearing plantings with a view to mak- ing a profit from them. Selling the berries is easy. Neighbors, local stores, roadside markets, usually take all small growers will produce, but wholesale markets know about Everbearers and have paid us this fall (1939) as much as 50(^ per quart for Mastodon, Gem, Green Mountain and Wayzata. "We suggest pint baskets as more suitable for Everbearers than quarts. Crop msurance is not usually thought of in connection with everbearing strawberries. Never- theless, in case it's too wet or too dry or too something else and the expected summer and fall crop doesn't come up to expectations, it isn't as bad as it might be. There's a spring crop coming along just as if you had planted regular spring varieties in the first place. Mastodon and Green Mountain are the best spring croppers among the Everbearers. Green Mountain Fine looking berries and good siiippers
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