The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1903-10-07
REPORT
ON NEW
BERRIES.
Best Varieties Tested
on Oregon
wa Soil
Thirty Kinds Grown 10 Field
Culture for the Home
Marker. for Shipping
and Canning


Below will be found report on thir
" new varieties OF strawberries grown
on The Journal editors experimental
grounds south of the city. Between
three and four acres are devoted to
thls purpose and the writer's spare
time and enthusiasm is expended on
propagation OF strawberries. Some
OF these varieties have been tested
from three to six years and he has
plants Of all varieties but one for sale;
A Pedlsreed Variety.
No. 1, Joe, st.--Planted in Novom.
ber, II had first blossoms April 20.
and ripe berries May 2s. earliest Of
fifteen varieties. We sold fruit from
IL four weeks and Il proved the most
popular home market berry and lsrge
yielder. Berry round, large average,
red clear through. good nayor, re
quirlng not much sugar and very ap
petlzing The fruit Is borne on stlff
stems that grow longer after FIRST
picking. Plants bore nearly three
cents apiece OF fruit the hrst spring.
from baby crop. Easy to pick and
most quickly prepared for the table.
Second year they made the finest
growth OF any and bore large and
long crop Stood shipping well 70
Portland and were very popular in
the home market Make a beautiful
crate when faced both ways Color
a deep orange red Joe Is a pedigreed
berry, the result OF nine cross-fertill.
zations. The last time II was crossed
with sharpless to give Il vigor OF TO
liage and constitution. and II got IL.
We Picked some of the FIRST and the
last crates for the market from the
Joe.
An English Variety.
No. 2, Lloyds P.-This is a large red
berry. Of high fruit favor, and dep
color all through. Il has beautiful
glossy neck and calyx that gives Il a
luscious appearance. Il Is very early,
q big bearer and holds out as long as
Joe Il becomes perfectly Rocllmat
ed. and Is the greatest home market
berry ever grown for the city market
Il will take In any local market whore
IL ls introduced. and is worthy Of any
growers time trying II ON his soil
Sold first berries from this kind II
was the FIRST OF all 20 bloom, and Is
very delicious for tho table Not a
shipper or Gamer
A Great Bearer.
No. 3, Sample. P.--Of all new va.
rieties tried here this promises best
for shipping and allaround berry.
Il is quite solid red pointed, ripens
slowly but all over. viii stand ripe
on the vines for week, has a good
strawberry favor and natures the
fruit 20 a medium size. II has a bright
clean foliage and a stifi medium length
OF stem that makes Il practically frost
proof
The sample has bright vigorous
foliage and produces an immense
amount OF marketable fruit Il Is me
dium late. coming in az the height OF
the season. but holding on when the
earlier kinds are gone win stand
shipment at least 300 miles.
Greatest Keeper, Shipper and Gamer.
No. 4. Kansas Platter than the
sample, prolific and dark glossy red
of good flavor Has reputation OF
great powers of resisting drouth, and
liable 20 be very valuable ON that ae.
count when Il is recalled that a dry
June cut down the total crop IN the
spring Of 1909 about one-third. Plant
cd IN December Il had lis nrst bios.
Sums May ?.
The second year Il vas a great sur
prise ia bearing quality, as canner,
and greatest Of an as shipper. Sew
erai boxes picked and stood for
week az the warehouse In open boxes.
AZ the end OF that time there we're not
over half OF the berries moldy. aud
none rotten, They decay after long
exposure with a dry mold All who