. Allen's 1945 book of berries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. GROWING EVERBEARERS WHY? HOW? «J) Everbearing strawberries make a delightful and K useful crop for the home garden. They have mf' become very popular in recent years. ^^^) You don't have to wait very long. No other fruit I^K crop can touch Everbearing strawberries for quick ^Ht returns. Plants are set in March or April. Berries are ripening from August to November of the same year. fW\^ Strawberries provide one of the best of
. Allen's 1945 book of berries. Nurseries (Horticulture) Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Nursery stock Maryland Salisbury Catalogs; Strawberries Maryland Salisbury Catalogs. GROWING EVERBEARERS WHY? HOW? «J) Everbearing strawberries make a delightful and K useful crop for the home garden. They have mf' become very popular in recent years. ^^^) You don't have to wait very long. No other fruit I^K crop can touch Everbearing strawberries for quick ^Ht returns. Plants are set in March or April. Berries are ripening from August to November of the same year. fW\^ Strawberries provide one of the best of all sources of Vitamin C (which cannot be stored in the body). Everbearing varieties make possible a continuing and pleasing source of this vitamin all through late summer and fall. 0 Although they have been grown for many years, they still have a novelty appeal. Lots of people ' still get a real kick out of having nice fresh strawberries from their own vines, so far out of the regular season. @ They have a good record as a money crop. Growers who had fairly heavy yields of berries in small garden plots found the surplus so easy to sell at good prices that they increased their plantings. Now many fall berries are shipped profitably even to wholesale markets. ® Some everbearing varieties make a very good regular spring crop. This gives growers crop insurance. If the expected summer and fall crop does not come up to expectations (and fall crops are not as sure as spring crops), there is a good spring crop coming along anyway, j Mastodon and Green Mountain are the best spring ! croppers among the Everbearers. All the Everbearers have cycles of fniiting. None of them bear every day from midsummer to freezing weather. In Maryland. Gem and Gemzata stand the heat better and are by far the most productive in August and early September. Masto- I don is at its best a little later and Green Mountain is the latest to reach its best production. Commercial growers therefore may want sever
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