Cultivar 298: Arrowhead

Arrowhead is a junebearing garden strawberry. A 1950 Daniels nursery catalog describes it as a newly named University of Minnesota selection, still identified there as Minn. No. 1118. The catalog presents it as hardy and vigorous, with large fruit, good color, excellent flavor, and firm berries suited to shipping. Daniels also treated it as a promising introduction and called it a likely "real comer" among junebearing strawberries. [S1]

The source links Arrowhead to the University of Minnesota, but it does not name an individual breeder, its parentage, or a release year beyond saying it had just been named by 1950. Its earlier selection number, Minn. No. 1118, shows it moved through the Minnesota breeding pipeline before receiving the name Arrowhead. [S1]

The catalog gives a brief but favorable fruit description. Daniels describes the berries as large, well colored, and of excellent flavor. The fruit was marketed for fresh dessert use, freezing, and jam. This suggests a berry with enough quality and substance for both fresh use and kitchen use. Firmness for shipping was a stated selling point. [S1]

The plant is described as vigorous and a good plant maker. This is a useful nursery and field trait in strawberries, where runner production and stand establishment matter. Hardiness is stated directly, though no zone is given. The catalog comes from a northern nursery trade context with strong Minnesota and northwestern adaptation emphasis, which places Arrowhead in a cold climate commercial setting even if the source does not give a formal zone rating. [S1]

Arrowhead is historically interesting because it appears at the point of naming: a numbered Minnesota selection becoming a public cultivar, with the nursery presenting it as one to watch. More detailed records would be needed to document its parentage, later performance, or whether it remained important in breeding or commerce. [S1]

Summary source basis

• S1: Daniels planting guide, 1950

This summary currently draws chiefly from Daniels planting guide, 1950.

Selected source quotations

“ARROWHEAD (Minn. No. 1118)-Amost promising University of Minnesota origination that has just been named.”
— Daniels planting guide, 1950, p27

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Source-story quotations

• ARROWHEAD (Minn. No. 1118)-Amost promising University of Minnesota origination that has just been named.Daniels planting guide, 1950, p27
• ARROWHEAD (Minn. No. 1118)-Amost promising University of Minnesota origination that has just been named.Daniels planting guide, 1950, p27
• ARROWHEAD (Minn. No. 1118)-Amost promising University of Minnesota origination that has just been named.Daniels planting guide, 1950, p27
• ARROWHEAD (Minn. No. 1118)-Amost promising University of Minnesota origination that has just been named.Daniels planting guide, 1950, p27

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