Title: Allen's book of berries for 1940
Identifier: allensbookofberr19alle_24 (find matches)
Year: 1940 (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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DORSETT Greatest Yield-Highest Price-IVIost Profit per Acre DORSETT has given us these things more often than any other early variety. At its best Dorsett is as productive as Premier, and the berries are larger, firmer, more beautiful and far better in quality than Premier. That is indeed high praise for any variety, and Dorsett is worthy of it. Dorsett tastes better than any other variety except Fairfax. The berries are beautiful—a bright, rich red which remains fairly light even after the berries get quite ripe. Dorsett ranks high as a shipping berry where berries are kept reasonably well picked. Dorsett has as parents Royal Sovereign, from which it gets its hig^li quality, and Premier, the source of its productiveness and liealtliy foliage. Dorsett's only serious fault is its inability to consistently set big crops of fruit under adverse conditions. Sometimes this happens when Dor- sett runner plants become too thickly set in the row. Other times because late frosts or freezes catch them in blooming time and they just can't take it like Premier. The remedies are to take advantage of the unusual vigor of Dor- sett by training runners until a very wide well spaced row (4 to 8 plants per square foot) is formed and then to cut off the surplus. This will give a maximum yield per acre. Also sites known to be subject to late frosts should be avoided. Where Dorsett will behave, no variety could be finer. It might well be called the middle states early berry. Although there are many good reports on Dorsett from states as far south as Georgia, Dorsett's best territory is from the latitude of North Carolina and Tennessee to southern New England and New York. With overhead irrigation or specially favored sites to ward off late frost injury, Dorsett makes wonder- fully fine crops " 'way up north." Dorsett is so good that no grower can afford to pass it by without finding out if he can grow it at its best. It's a dandy when it's right. Our fields are well supplied with tiptop Dor- sett plants and we hope to have your orders. Price list, page 35. "People buy my Dorsett and Catskill as fast as we get them picked."—Mr. Ambrose Schneider, St. Charles Co., Mo. •'My Dorsett berries were the talk of the whole town. Everybody was asking about the big, beautiful berries that had such a delicious flavor. We had quantities of them of which it took only 25 to- fill a quart basket. My only regret is that I ^oi^ didn't set 5,000 instead of 500."—Mrs. ^% E. G. Walrath, Oneida Co.. N. Y, Dorsett berries like these ways sell well
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