ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES— 1926 





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Good plants, correctly labeled, well packed 



Old Friends and New 



To all of you we want to extend our heartiest greetings and express the wish 

 that 1926 may be a year of prosperity and happiness for you. Some of our cus- 

 tomers have been receiving this Book of Berries annually for many years. Others 

 will receive it this year for the first time. But we want you all to know that our 

 policy is to treat all customers in such a way that they will come back and buy 

 from us again. We believe our old customers realize this and the fact that they 

 send us their orders year after year seems to prove it. 



The Plain Truth 



The plain truth is that we have the finest stock of the finest plants to offer 

 you this year that we have had for many a year. The season here has been very 

 short on rainfall, but what little we have had has been very evenly distributed, so 

 that the plants have been "up and coming" all summer and fall. The grade of the 

 plants we ship must be kept up to standard. Sometimes it is necessary to do this 

 by discarding many of the smaller, inferior plants, sometimes it is because there 

 are very few plants in the row so they all develop good crowns and roots but this 

 year the grade is extra high and the plants we ship you will be strong, healthy, 

 well-rooted plants, dug from strong, healthy, well-set beds, such as you want to 

 give you a big, profitable crop of berries. Notice the pictures of the actual patches 

 from which plants will be dug to fill our orders this year. 



On the next three or four pages (if you will read them) you will find that we 

 are trying to persuade you to grow strawberries, and, of course, use Allen's plants 

 to start your beds from. That is true. But we have tried to stick to the plain 

 truth in all the statements there. You will not find statements like these : "An inde- 

 pendent fortune from two acres of strawberries, "or "$1000.00 an acre sure if you'll 

 do it our way." Such statements mean nothing. We do say that if you have some 



