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Title: Allen's book of berries for 1941
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_25 (find matches)
Year: 1941 (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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Dresden. 1940 crop 20 per cent higher than any other variety m Connecticut DRESDEN New records are being made! Dresden is certainly a berry for tlie North and it is breaking all former records for productiveness. Mr. George L. Slate, the originator, gave us Catskill a few years ago, and now he comes up with Dresden. Premier is one of the parents of both varieties. i Both seem to have taken the great producing ability of Premier and added to it. At Mt. Carmel, Conn., in 1940, Dr. Jones records Dresden as producing 20% more than any It other variety and his list included Premier, Catskill and Pathfinder. At Warrens, Wise, in 1940, Mr. H. H. Harris' test plot of Dresden produced 12% more quarts !i than Premier, 30% more than Catskill. We can't forget the sight we saw at Mr. George Lord's place at Oswego, New York, in 19l?9. No n records were available but we saw a prospect of more strawberries on a whole field than we have ever seen before anywhere, anytime. The crops of Dresden in sight must have been 15,000 quarts '\s wc I have seen it in Northern States, there is nothing wrong with the foliage of Dresden. The berries are medium to large in size and somewhat irregular in shape as shown in tb<; liicture. They are light in color and quite attractive in the package. The quality is rather poor as grown in the South, but at Amherst, Mass., Oswego. New York, and in other Northern sections ' it was good, though not high. The berries are quite soft as grown here in Maryland but firiri in Northern fields. We understand that the growers in Western New York had little difficulty I iu getting Dresden to New York City markets in good condition. In all sections from Pennsylvania north where great volume of nice looking, medium sized I berries is more important than high quality, Dresden is suggested for trial without In^sitation. 'i We have a large stock of fine Dresden plants. Price list, page 35. I Eleanor Roosevelt This variety (N. C. 337) was introduced two years ago by the North Carolina Ex- periment Station. In the Eastern part of that state where it has been grown mostly, it is said to be only moderately productive. How- ever, with us in 1940 it set a very heavy crop but could not mature it on account of the very dry season. The plant growth is very vigorous and robust. Blossoms are large with plenty of pollen. Berries will run very large under favorable conditions. They are very long and pointed with a very large bright green cap. The berri^es are quite firm and of excellent quality. It should be grown on rich moist soil and tried in all the Southern states. Aberdeen Aberdeen will justify a good sales talk provided its limitations are given. When grown under proper conditions few varie- ties make a more vigorous plant growth. The berries are large, light colored and very attrac- tive, but are quite soft and must be marketed promptly. It is good only in the North and must have a rather heavy fertile soil. At its best it is one of the most productive of all varieties. Aberdeen has had much attention in the last year or two because of its resistance to the new^ red stele disease. On this account those inter- ested in breeding disease-resistant varieties are using Aberdeen as one of the parents in nearly all their crosses. It may be that growers not too far South will find Aberdeen worth growing on their heavier soils wherever red stele has become a serious problem. Price list, page 35. 17

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