10 ALLEN’S BOOK OF BERRIES—192Z2 
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starting Right 
Don’t handicap your efforts by using plants of poor or uncer- 
tain quality. For 85 years we have been supplying the highest 
grade strawberry plants to growers all over the country. We be- 
lieve in our plants and if we can get you started, you will be- 
lieve in them. Our old customers do. Read the testimonials. 
1. Young Beds. All of our plants are dug from young beds. 
We never have dug and never expect to dig plants from old beds 
te fill our orders. 
2. Root-system. Our plants are grown in a light, sandy loam 
soil. In this type of soil any plant can develop its root-system 
to the fullest degree. And, having a light soil, we can dig plants 
without breaking off any of the great bunch of roots. With 
plants grown in heavier soils, the roots cannot penetrate the 
earth and make the root-system they do here; and, even if they 
eould, it would not avail in giving fine plants, as plants are not 
removed from heavy clay soils without breaking off many of the 
fibrous roots, the kind necessary to start plant growth. We 
repeat: The root-system of our strawberry plants is never bet- 
tered, seldom equaled. 
3. Sturdiness. Our growing season is moderately long, just 
long enough to secure maximum development of both roots and 
erowns. Constant hoeing and cultivation and the tons of manure 
we apply help keep them healthy and in prime growing condi- 
tion. The large size, good roots, and great vitality of our plants 
are a form of insurance, worth in itself, the cost of the plants. 
You want this kind. 
4. Healthy. Our plants are healthy and vigorous as grown 
in the field. Furthermore, our plants are well cleaned; the dead 
and decaying runners and old leaves around the stems are trimmed 
off, so that it would be almost impossible to transmit diseases 
even if they were present. 
5. Hardiness. Our plants are hardy anywhere in the United 
States or Canada, wherever strawberries are grown. We know 
this because our plants have given and are giving excellent re- 
sults in the most northern berry growing regions. 
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Two of The Best 
Franklin County, Pa., Feb. 10, 1921 
I think that Early Premier and Chesapeake are the two of the 
best strawberries that grow. 
J. D. Welson 
