THE W. F. ALLEN CO. 



SALISBURY, MD. 



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The Real Champion of the Everbearers 



spring fruiting variety. One grower says that Mastodon is as far ahead of Cham- 

 pion as Champion is ahead of the many poorer Everbearers which have been on 

 the market during the last few years. 



All the above is taken from descriptions of the variety by Michigan growers. 

 With us, Mastodon has made a fairly good plant growth, somewhat better than 

 Progressive and Champion usually make, but not as good as our Champion have 

 made this year. The season here was very dry, making it hard for an Everbearing 

 variety especially to be at its best. However, it produced a fair amount of good, 

 big berries which were very attractive in appearance and fairly good in quality. 

 It produced more than Superb, Peerless, Perfection and berries of that type have 

 produced for us. 



But as compared with Champion, this season Champion has produced twice 

 as many quarts of berries as the Mastodon, per plant, and they are, in our opinion, 

 considerably better in quality than Mastodon. Perhaps another year that is not 

 quite so dry, the Mastodon may show up better as compared with Champion. At 

 present we consider it the most promising of that type of Everbearers which pro- 

 duce a moderate quantity of large berries rather than a heavy crop of medium 

 sized berries. We have only a small stock and the price is as follows: 25 plants, 

 $2.00; 50 plants, $3.50; 100 plants, $5.00. 



