. Allen's catalogue 1909 : choicest strawberry plants and other small fruits, vegetable seeds etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. RED BIRD— 'Hiis ts a valual !e new early markel berry which comes from Mis " isipp It was highlv recommend .1 lo me ;i'id 1 was il duced to set a few plants aboul three years ago. and was sal Isfied from the first that h was a ral table addition to mv list n is one of the he rriesl plants thai I have ever handled. At this writing (December li the rmea are
. Allen's catalogue 1909 : choicest strawberry plants and other small fruits, vegetable seeds etc. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. RED BIRD— 'Hiis ts a valual !e new early markel berry which comes from Mis " isipp It was highlv recommend .1 lo me ;i'id 1 was il duced to set a few plants aboul three years ago. and was sal Isfied from the first that h was a ral table addition to mv list n is one of the he rriesl plants thai I have ever handled. At this writing (December li the rmea are still green and show very Utile indications ol cold ; I paid no special attention to the variety until it came in fruit in May, 1007. There was no extra care given to the variety. bu1 simply held cul- ture I had on" ions row which showed up so well that one customer who saw it bought 50,000 plants on the spot. The same party, by the way. has Just ordered more plants for next spring. The berry is very tart and would not he considered good eating without plenty of sugar, but as a first early snipping berry, so far as I know of, it has no equal. I shall not give"you a long detail description of the Red hut will give von the facts as I have seen them. The fruit will average larger than the Excelsior, and will hear just twice'as much per acre, and when I say twice as much I mean two quarts where the excelsior will bear one. It is one of the heartiest plants that I have ever grown. It is a pistillate variety and the earliest pis- tillate varietv that has ever been on the market. It would have to be fruited with some varieties like Ex- celsior, Texas, Early Hathaway, or some very early bloomin" varietv. With me ii was just as early as Excelsior, and by the second and third picking it gave me twice as manv berries to the row. If I were set- ting out a large patch of early berries for market and wanted the earliest that I could get, I should
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