20 ALLEN’S Boox oF BERRIES — 1929 
Fine Premier Plants, 
Extra Early Varieties 
PREMIER (Howard 17) 
Premier, the real money maker of all early strawberries, has given more gen- 
eral satisfaction than any variety of strawberries ever introduced. For the home 
garden, for local market, for shipping moderate distances, no other can compare 
with it. Read the following Premier facts: 
1. Soil. Premier deserves good soil and good care, but it will do well on any 
kind of soil and in any climate, outclassing other early berries whether given good 
soil and good care or grown under unfavorable conditions. 
2. Productiveness. The plants are immensely product ve, ripening early 
and bearing through a long season. No variety yields more quarts per acre. This 
is especially important where land is limited and a maximum quantity of fancy 
berries desired. 
3. Growth. Premier makes an abundant plant growth for a good fruiting 
bed, making a plentiful number of nice strong plants rather than great numbers 
of small, weak ones which require extra labor in thinning and hoeing. 
4. Appearance. The berries are beautiful in appearance, having uniform 
shape and a glossy, rich, red color, extending clear through the berry. 
5. Attractiveness. The berries have a bright green cap which stays green 
to the end of the season even in dry weather. This is not oversize, but just right 
to add the proper touch of beauty to the fruit. This added attractiveness makes 
for a larger selling price. 
6. Quality. The berries are delicious in quality, equaled only by the very 
best ones likes Chesapeake, Wm. Belt, McAlpin and Big Late. 
7. Firmness. Premier berries are firm enough to stand shipment to distant 
markets in good condition. We have heard buyers at local shipping stations con- 
demn Premier as being a poor shipper, saying it did not ship like Klondyke, and 
in a few minutes later, when a load of nice Klondyke and another of nice Premier 
drove through the auction market, these same buyers would pay from 25c to $1.C0 
