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Your Own Plants or Allen’s Plants 
When considering whether to use plants from your own fruiting bed or buy 
plants, here are some things to keep in mind: 
1. The trouble and expense of digging and cleaning your own plants, especially 
where you are inexperienced at this kind of work and the soil is heavy and hard. 
2. The money you would receive for the berries produced by the plants you 
dig, including the second crop where they are kept over. 
3. The invigorating effects that often come from a change of soil and climate. 
This factor is more important than is generally realized. See page 31, under 
Champion. 
4. The convenience of having plants right at hand when you want them. 
5. The other things you might do in the rush of spring work during the time 
it takes to dig the plants. 
6. That you can set our plants (in the North) before (or while) digging your 
own and th:s get more of the beneficial results of early setting. 
7. Th> fact that plants well cleaned, with evenly bunched, straightened roots 
make setting easier, quicker and better. 
8. Unless you have a soil suited to growing plants, Allen’s Plants are better 
plants than your own and will give you better results. Read the following un- 
solicited comment from two of our customers: 
MR. C. M. FULTON, of Clearfield County, Penna., says: “The plants I bought 
from you in 1926 were fine. I never saw such large strawberries as we marketed last 
year. They were the talk of the town. I could get my own plants, but I am ordering 
them from you because of the fine root system of your plants. I believe the increase 
will pay for the plants, as my land is not mellow enough to develop such root system. 
Thanks for fine plants and good count.” 
MR. JOHN M. RUDISILL, of York County, Penna., says: ‘“‘I have planted the 
3100 plants I received from you, and it looks as if I will have a good stand. I had 
intended to plant 500 Wm. Belt of my own, but when I went to get the plants upi after 
I had planted the ones I received from you, and then starting on some of my own, I 
decided the difference was too much, for the price I can buy plants from you.” 
Index 
Pages Pages 
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How Many Berries and How Much Other Extra Early Varieties............ 22 
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All From a Strawberry Garden.......... 7 @hesapeake | 2 aici eine eet foe sei 220 
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Your Money’s Worth............++.s+e00- 14 Everbearing Strawberries....:............ 31 
One of Our Most Valuable Assets...... 15 AS paragis mlKootseea- nce cicre seer ence se 32 
Best Varieties to Plant for Profit....... 17 Price: tLAstwcleaastescecele so iner acta aoe ae 35 
Dependability in Facts and Plants 
Dona Ana County, New Mexico, Jan. 18, 1928.—Please ship the enclosed order as 
'soon as possible. It is refreshing to get hold of a catalogue like yours, with reasonable 
descriptions instead of hot air and bombast.—C. E. LOCKE. 
Somerset County, Maine, Sept. 8, 1928.—I have bought plants from you before coming 
to Skowhegan. Your plants always are O.K. What do you think of Big Joe and Par- 
son’s Beauty I may order some next spring. When I want the honest facts about a 
variety I have never tried out, I always hunt up The W. F. Allen Company’s Book of 
Berries.—G. E. McGOWAN. : 
McKean County, Penna., March 19, 1928—This is my first experience with any im- 
perfect flowered sort, and I bank on your judgment and dependability. That is one 
thing among many others I have learned of the Allens—they are absolutely dependable 
—and I have impressed that fact upon quite a few people when questioned where I get 
my plants. No stretching the truth to make a sale with them.—RICHARD E. KLINGER. 
