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Mimeo HO -15 July 1963 profitable Fruit Growing through better production methods what's new in fruit varieties • soil management • spraying and dusting • fruit handling • fertilization • pruning and thinning • storage • marketing Strawberry Varieties for Indiana EARLY SEASON VARIETIES Earlidawn: Earliest of the commercial varieties, usually ripening about 5 days ahead of Blakemore and Premier. Frost hardiness about equal to Premier. Fruit large, bright red, tart flavor and rates high for freezing. Plants vigorous, but do not make many runners. Plants very susceptible to verticillium wilt. Premier (Howard 17): Widely recognized standard variety in Indiana for many years. Especially valuable because of its frost hardiness and earliness of bearing. Fruit soft and tends to be small in late pickings. This variety being replaced by Earlidawn in commercial plantings. Blakemore: Old standard variety in southern Indiana. Fruit too small to be an acceptable variety for commercial plantings. Being replaced by Pocahontas. Vermillion: An early red stele resistant variety. Appears to be excellent for home gardens. Plants resistant to leaf spot, leaf scorch and verticillium wilt. Fruit moderately firm, medium size, good quality and yields well. MID-SEASON VARIETIES Midway: Released by the USDA in 1960. Plants vigorous and very productive. Fruit large, glossy, dark red and firm. This variety, which is resistant to red stele, has performed well in Purdue trials and appears well adapted to Indiana conditions. Pocahontas: An outstanding variety widely adapted throughout Indiana. Fruit moderately firm, bright red, well-shaped and good for freezing. Consistently rated as one of the most productive varieties tested by Purdue. Plants susceptible to leaf spot, and fungicide sprays should be applied, especially when the planting is to be carried over for a second year. Dixieland: Rated high in experimental plantings in the past and ranked a close second to Pocahontas in yields. Fruit very firm and dark red. Plants susceptible to leaf spot to the same degree as Pocahontas. However, this variety is often troubled by "June yellows. " New leaves become pale and streaked with yellow in the spring; affected plants are weak, often unproductive and may die prematurely. No control for yellows is known, and this variety is no longer suggested. Surecrop: Ripens along with Pocahontas. Fruit medium sized, bright red, very attractive and firm. Plants extremely vigorous, produce many runners and are resistant to all known races of red stele PURDUE UNIVERSITY Agricultural Extension Service • Lafayette, Indiana Department of Horticulture
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Purdue Identification Number | UA14-13-mimeoHO015 |
Title | Extension Mimeo HO, no. 015 (Jul. 1963) |
Title of Issue | Profitable fruit growing through better production methods: strawberry varieties for Indiana |
Date of Original | 1963 |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Mimeo HO (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States – Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Date Digitized | 09/08/2016 |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
URI | UA14-13-mimeoHO015.tif |
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Title | Page 001 |
Genre | Periodical |
Collection Title | Extension Mimeo HO (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service) |
Rights Statement | Copyright Purdue University. All rights reserved. |
Coverage | United States – Indiana |
Type | text |
Format | JP2 |
Language | eng |
Transcript | Mimeo HO -15 July 1963 profitable Fruit Growing through better production methods what's new in fruit varieties • soil management • spraying and dusting • fruit handling • fertilization • pruning and thinning • storage • marketing Strawberry Varieties for Indiana EARLY SEASON VARIETIES Earlidawn: Earliest of the commercial varieties, usually ripening about 5 days ahead of Blakemore and Premier. Frost hardiness about equal to Premier. Fruit large, bright red, tart flavor and rates high for freezing. Plants vigorous, but do not make many runners. Plants very susceptible to verticillium wilt. Premier (Howard 17): Widely recognized standard variety in Indiana for many years. Especially valuable because of its frost hardiness and earliness of bearing. Fruit soft and tends to be small in late pickings. This variety being replaced by Earlidawn in commercial plantings. Blakemore: Old standard variety in southern Indiana. Fruit too small to be an acceptable variety for commercial plantings. Being replaced by Pocahontas. Vermillion: An early red stele resistant variety. Appears to be excellent for home gardens. Plants resistant to leaf spot, leaf scorch and verticillium wilt. Fruit moderately firm, medium size, good quality and yields well. MID-SEASON VARIETIES Midway: Released by the USDA in 1960. Plants vigorous and very productive. Fruit large, glossy, dark red and firm. This variety, which is resistant to red stele, has performed well in Purdue trials and appears well adapted to Indiana conditions. Pocahontas: An outstanding variety widely adapted throughout Indiana. Fruit moderately firm, bright red, well-shaped and good for freezing. Consistently rated as one of the most productive varieties tested by Purdue. Plants susceptible to leaf spot, and fungicide sprays should be applied, especially when the planting is to be carried over for a second year. Dixieland: Rated high in experimental plantings in the past and ranked a close second to Pocahontas in yields. Fruit very firm and dark red. Plants susceptible to leaf spot to the same degree as Pocahontas. However, this variety is often troubled by "June yellows. " New leaves become pale and streaked with yellow in the spring; affected plants are weak, often unproductive and may die prematurely. No control for yellows is known, and this variety is no longer suggested. Surecrop: Ripens along with Pocahontas. Fruit medium sized, bright red, very attractive and firm. Plants extremely vigorous, produce many runners and are resistant to all known races of red stele PURDUE UNIVERSITY Agricultural Extension Service • Lafayette, Indiana Department of Horticulture |
Repository | Purdue University Libraries |
Digitization Information | Original scanned at 400 ppi on a BookEye 3 scanner using Opus software. Display images generated in Contentdm as JP2000s; file format for archival copy is uncompressed TIF format. |
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