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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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BIG JOE PATHFINDER Big Joe, Joe and Joe Johnson are all names that have been given to this fine old variety. Big Joe makes a strong, vigorous plant growth. The individual plants are quite large and usually do not need spacing. The plants are moderately productive and under favorable conditions may be very productive. The ber- ries are large and of very fine quality. A bril- liant red flesh color, prominent red to yellow seeds and a big green cap combine to make a very showy and attractive berry. Big Joe ber- ries are fairly firm and in this shipping section of Maryland they have for years sold well on local auction markets, outselling Catskill much of the time. Reports from growers on Big Joe are usually very good or very bad. Under conditions which suit it, Big Joe is a very fine midseason berry— next to Catskill in all around value. The weak- ness of Big Joe is that it isn't always a heavy producer. It is quite susceptible to frost injury. A heavy frost or light freeze may kill the crop. A medium or light frost may '"nip"' the blossoms just enough to make a lot of misshapen berries with hard, knotty green ends. But keep Big Joe away from frost and it will give really re- markable results. If you are a Big Joe grower, be careful of mixed plants. We are positive that our stock is straight, but there are dozens of farmers in this section who have F>ig Joe thoroughly mixed with Lupton. As both are good varieties here and nearly the same season, they don't try very hard to get them straight. We have seen so nuich of this particular mixture that we have been extra careful on these varieties and can supply you from a stock that is straight. Price list, page 35. Culver A New York State introduction. Does better here than any of the other New York State varie- ties except Catskill. The plants are very vigor- ous and healthy and the berries are large, beau- tiful red color with bright green caps. The berries are fairly tii-m. considerably darker in r than the Clermont, and red to the center. ^Vorth trying. Pilce list, page o'*. In one of the early tests at the New Haven Connecticut Experiment Station, Dr. D. F. Jones reported yields at the rate of 15,000 quarts per acre from Pathfinder. "Pathfinder was the outstanding variety of the 1939 tests," he says, "and in three years in Connecticut, yields of Pathfinder have always been equal to or larger than Premier." And in 1940 Path- finder even outyielded Catskill at the same station. Pathfinder (N. J. 25) was originated by Prof. J. Harold Clark. It proved its value in New .Tersey in extensive tests with commercial grow- ers in that state before being named and re- leased for general introduction. The outstanding thing about Pathfinder is its tremendous productiveness. If we were asked to name the four most productive varieties of strawberries without regard to any other factors they would be Premiei'. Catskill. Dresden and Pathfinder, with no attempt to rank these four except to group them at the top. The heavy yields of Pathfinder are made pos- sible by an miusually healthy and vigorous plant growth—plenty of new plants are made—large strong ones. The berries are uniform in shape, almost round as shown in the picture. The caps are small but attractive in the north, but become dry and brown in hot dry seasons further South. In the North the berries are a very attractive light red and ripen evenly all over. In Maryland they do not ripen evenly, many berries exposed to the sun become quite dark on the exposed side before the ground side colors at all. With us the berries are quite soft and rather poor in quality. As with Premier, however, when planted further Xortb the herries im- prove both in quality and firmness. In sections where tlie new red stele disease lias become established growers may find an- other reason foi- setting I'athlinder, It is miusually resistant to red stele. >Vhile it cannot be recommended for the Southern states. Pathfinder should certainly be tried out by Northern growers who have a fairly heavy fertile soil, a nearby market, and who want maximum production. Price list, page 80. Massey A new midseason variety from North Carolina (OlSi. Plants very vigorous,. Ber- ries very high quality, large size, light red color nd quite tirni. Moderately productive.
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Pathfinder Berries; 36

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