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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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Fairfax plants for 1941. None better anywhere! FAIRFAX "My trade won't take other yarieties after they try Fairfax, so I had to order all Fairfax this year". So writes Mr. S. W. Colton of Kane County, Illinois. And that is not unusual! Except for the problem of stretehinff out the season, many growers would go ALL FAIEFAXII Enthusiasm for Fairfax is greater than for any other rariety we have ever known. It begins because the berries are so good—the best to eat of all straw- berries. The enthusiasm continues and grows because the highest quality is backed by so many other line things. From the yery beginning there has been no doubt that Fairfax would take first place as a home garden berry, for roadside markets or for local trade. In fact for any market where the consumer comes in direct contact with the grower. As Fairfax gets quite dark on holding for seyeral days, it was thought that this might hurt Fairfax as a shipping l)erry. It did at first, but people are learning that these dark berries will hold up. That Fairfax has a delicious flayor that can be had in no other berries. Fairfax is gaining fayor eyen as a shipping berry. The berries are beauties! When first ready to pick, they have a rich, medium red color, resembling Chesapeake at their best. They have fairly prominent golden yellow seeds which help protect the berries and add to their showiness. After several days Fairfax berries turn quite dark, almost purple, which may become a sort of trademark. It is important at each picking to get all the berries that are ready to pick. A main disadvantage of the dark color is that berries missed at one picking will still be firm, but dark, at the next. These berries when mixed with the lighter berries which are just ripe may give an uneven or mottled appearance. In firmness, as well as quality. Fairfax stands at the top. If picked carefully when first ripe, we believe Fairfax will keep longer than any other leading variety; not even excepting Blake- more, the great Southern Shipping berry. Extra large size of the first berries is another thing for which Fairfax is notable. The later berries on the clusters are not quite as large, but it has been found that rich soil or heavy manuring is quite effective in sizing all of the Fairfax crop to a good marketable size. Plant growth of Fairfax is vigorous and healthy. It is similar to Premier but the leaves are generally a little larger, more cupped, and a deeper green color. Plenty of plants are made for a good fruiting bed in most cases and ou very rich land some restriction of runners may be helpful after a well spaced row has been formed. Fairfax is a heavy cropper. It is not quite aii heavy as Premier and Catskill as a rule, but crops of 5.000 to S.OOO quarts per acre are not unusual. We have obtained as many as 10.000 quarts per acre on a small plot. As with Dorsett. Fairfax gets its wonderful •luality from its Royal Sovereign parent. From Premier, the other parent. Fairfax gets health and vigor of plant growth, productiveness and a large amount of hardiness.

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