Today, September 18th, 



I have been looking over my plant beds carefully and to tell the truth 

 the sight of them is a better stimulant for "a tired mind or body" "for a 

 case of the blues" or even a "case of indigestion" than any doctor can pre- 

 scribe. Now don't sa3' that this isn't true for it is, and any one of my cus- 

 tomers who can come and see for themselves and don't agree with me fully 

 and truly I will present them with a hundred plants of my celebrated money 

 maker the NEW HOME Strawberry. In one piece there are 420 rows of plants 

 nearly three hundred yards long and every row from TWO to THREE FEET 

 ACROSS, another patch of 10 acres are nearly as good and other smaller 

 patches are equally as fine. Friends kindly excuse me for being pioud of this 

 the finest crop of plants 1 have ever grown. My trade has grown very rapidly 

 and it is especially gratifying that I can supply my customers (who are my 

 friends) the coming season with plants from what is probably the finest straw- 

 berry bed in America consisting of NINETY varieties, and then there 

 are m3' Dewberry plants, no one grows better. I have LUCRETIA, Austin's 

 or Mayes and the Premo, for three years I have not had enough dewberry 

 plants to supply my trade. I may not this year but I can supply over 

 300,000 before I throw up my hands and hollow ''QUIT" and THEY ARE 

 NICE. 



In addition to growing millions of plants I have for several years been 

 growing many acres of truck crops for the large Eastern Markets such as 

 Cantaloupes, Tomatoes, Cucumbers etc, for instance; for eight years I have 

 grown 50 acres of cantaloupes alone each year. Several times I have failed 

 to get good seed true to name, this has led me to enter the seed business and 

 in doing so I shall use every precaution to supply only the best in vitality 

 and purity, and I hope all those using seeds will appreciate my efforts to sup- 

 ply them with only the best and give me at least a trial order. Many of the 

 saeds I offer are grown on my farm and I know there are none better. Those 

 I do not grow myself are grown for me by expert growers in different parts 

 of the country where the particular species grows to the greatest degree of 

 perfection therefore producing seed with the greatest degree of vitality. I 

 WANT YOUR ORDER FOR STRAWBERRY PLANTS. DEWBERRY 

 PLANTS AND SEEDS. May I have it? Yours faithfully. 



W. K. ALLEN. 



My Spring Catalogue will be the largest I have ever sent out and 

 contains hundreds of descriptions. It will be sent to all who receive this 

 without asking, about first of January aud to all others who request it by 

 postal or otherwise. 



