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Our Most Popular Varieties
SURECROP
MULTIPLE RESISTANCE TO RED STELE— FINE FLAVOR
VERY HEAVY PLANT PRODUCER
Excellent Size . . . Good Yields . . . High Prices
SURECROP is a really fine new strawberry variety
wherever grown, from Pennsj'Ivania and New York to
southern Virginia and westward to Ohio.
SURECROP is a midseason berry ripening about with
Fairland and Temple. The berries are a light, bright
red which turns to a deep rich color. Seeds are a nice
bright yellow set even with the surface. SURECROP
berries are firm, with a tough glossy skin which makes
them ideal for distant markets. They have also been
recommended for freezing. Size holds well throughout
the season, with the average being larger than Stele-
master.
A very vigorous plant maker and producer, rivaling
such varieties as Pocahontas and Robinson as the best
bed makers of all strawberry varieties. Coupled with
STELEMASTER as a fine early berry, SURECROP
as a midseason berrv will deliver a MONEY-MAKIXG,
RED STELE RESISTANCE PUNCH for growers
everywhere.
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MIDWAY
New . . . V^idely Tested ... Red Stele Resistant
Merits Trial in All Areas
Midway is a cross of Dixieland and Temple that has
done well in test plots from Massachusetts to Virginia
and westward. It should be tested as a virus free, red
stele resistant replacement for Temple and Fairland,
neither of which has virus free stock available.
Midway ripens in midseason, about with Temple. The
berries are medium to large size, have a uniform deep
red color with a glossj' surface, firm skin and yellow
seeds. The flesh is firm. Berries are irregular conic
shape but have good dessert quahty and have stood up
well in the frozen pack.
Plants of Midway are vigorous, highly productive, and
resistant to the common race of red stele. The leaves
are somewhat susceptible to leaf scorch and leaf spot.
Growers report 1964 crops of Midway were excellent
in yield, color, size. Buyers paid high prices for fruit
because it carried long distances with a minimum of loss.
POCAHONTAS
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FRESH MARKET . . . CANNED . . .
FROZEN PACK
Outstanding . . . Wonderful . . . My Best Money
Maker . . . These are the words used by many of our
customers to describe the way they feel about this
great berry. Since its release by the U.S.D.A., Pocahontas
has climbed to the top of the ladder as a commercial
favorite. Time after time it has outyielded all other
kinds from the Carolinas to New York and as far west
as Ohio and Arkansas. Its extra high vigor gives Poca-
hontas good picking beds even under adverse conditions.
Yields of Pocahontas often are more than 10,000
quarts of large, beautiful, high quahty berries. They
have brought high profits on fresh markets everywhere.
Pocahontas has been accepted by the processors as an
outstanding berry for canning and freezing.
The berries are a bright, glossy red, firm, somewhat
conic in shape, and not as tart as Blakemore. Poca-
hontas ripens about a week later than Blakemore.
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