W. F. ALLEN’S 
OOM PAUL. —The fruit is large. the larger 
berries being sometimes a little 
flattened. The berries are dark red all the way 
through, firm and good quality. I see no reason why 
this variety has not been planted more largely. I 
have fruited the Oom Paul for several years and 
consider it a good variety either for home uss or 
market, as it is firm enough to ship well. 
PARSONS’ BEAUTY.—Parson’s Beauty ortgi- 
nated in this county 
near Parsonsburg. It is very productive, medinm 
large and of good quality. Anyone who has a near 
market, where the fruit can be hanled in or picked 
one day and sold the next morning, I would recom- 
mend this variety. Some claim that it will ship 
well, but I have never found that I conld reeem- 
mend this as a berry that wonld ship a long distance 
and give good results. It makes a luxuriant growth 
of dark green, vigorous plants, which bear an im- 
mense crop of medium to large berries. 
BHNNSYLVANIA DUTCHMAN.—This is 
another 
variety that is enough like New York to be its own 
brother. The birry comes to me from tha Keystone 
State from one of my customers. who writes me thua: 
“T have a new berry that has no name and eleven 
or twelve will fill a quart. In the Harrisburg market 
they have been bringing 25 cents per box when the 
rest were only & cents. They have perfect hlossems 
and are firm No one has them except one party 
and myself, and he will not s*ll any plants. T will 
supply vou with some if you wish to buy them and I 
will sell them to you and no one else.” T henght tho 
plants and was well pleased with them. The plants 
were very large, as larwe ss any I bave ever seen, bit. 
as stated ahove, the light green, healthy foliage and 
the fruit is very much like New York. 
—Introduced hy the late John 
WCOCLVERTON.. 
Little, of Ontario, Cansda. 1 
have frvited this variety for a number of yrars. It 
will sneceed on almost any soil, but will do better 
on a sandy loam. where the soil is not ten dry The 
plants make a good growth, has a nerfect hlosaom, 
which makes it an excellent noVenizing variety. It 
is no nneammon thing ‘o see blnems and rine herries 
on this variety at the same time. A good, reliable 
standard variety. 
CATALOGUE, SALISBURY, 
MD. 
BUBACH. —I wil! speak 
of this va- 
riety by first asking how 
nyany of the older cus- 
tomers is there that does 
not remember Bubach or, 
as it used to be called, 
Bubach No. 5, and I want 
to ask further how many 
of the older customers {8. 
there that have seen many 
if any, better berries than 
the Bubach was when ft 
was first put on the mar- 
ket, and right here I wast 
to say that I have a very 
fine strain of this grand 
old variety that I think ts 
just about as good as the 
Bubach was in its earlier 
days. I have heard some 
complaints, and especially 
from nurserymen, that 
they could not get it to 
bed up, and yet our Bu- 
bach plant beds are just. 
about two feet across, 
with as fine, luxurtant,. 
healthy growth as you 
will find in abmost any 
variety in this seetion. I 
heard a prominent Con- 
necticut nurserymen make 
the remark two or three 
years ugo that he had dis- 
continued growing the Bu- 
bach because it would not 
make the plants and be- 
cause there had ceased to 
be a demand for it. This, 
however, has not been my 
experience, and the strange 
part of it is that I selP 
many thousands of Bt- 
bach plants all aroun@ 
this man and throughout 
his State. It must be that 
his ‘soil is not adapted to 
the variety. ‘The fact is 
we twice su asuch demand for this grand old 
variety that. 1 have kept it among my leaders, and 
only once in ten years have I failed to sell every 
Plant that I had. My present stock will exceeth 
half a million and I doubt very much if there will 
be a plant left. “The Bubach were by far the 
finest berries and brought the best price. In my 
experience of strawberry growing for fifteen years 
have never seen any berry to equal the Bubach” 
is the verdict of one customer, and we have many 
similar ones. We have a very fine stock of Bubach 
plants and will be pleased to have the orders of alk 
customers who admire this variety. 
SARATOGA.— Originated by William Palmer, of 
New York State. It makes a vig- 
orous growth of healthy, vigorous plants, of ve 
dark green foliage. Mr. Palmer describes it thus: 
exhibit»d the Saratoga at the New York State Pair 
in September. 1906 One plant set in May, 1908, 
with ordinary field culture, had twenty-five good her- 
ries and several small ones. A portion of three acres 
was of this varlety, cared for the same as th: balance 
of the field. One picking at the height of the season 
yielded at thy rate of 5,000 quarts per aere. matnring 
the last of the crop with Gandy. It has a perfect 
hlossom and is a cross of the Glen Mary and Sample, 
two of the leading all-around berries in this section. 
The fruit is deep red, a good shipper and medium to 
late in season.” 
OAK’S EARLY.—This is a very 
shipping berry. 
in Somerset County, Md. Some think if hetter than 
Prcelsior It is. to say the least, orobably eqnal to 
that variety, equally as early, equally as vigorous in 
growth, 
equally as productive and equally as sanr. 
eM oe feo feito holed ole Moke eles de ett ste ole ae 
* THE BEST THAT C*® BE HAD AT ANY 
PRICE. 
early. firm 
It originated 
Washington Co., Okla. 
Mr. W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 
Dear Sir—I want to thank yon and give you sy 
sredit and praise for the hest plants that ean he 
had at any price. Thanking you for vonr hen 
esty end promptness. and wishing yon great 
suecess. I beg to remain, very respectfplly yours, ‘ 
% R. J. NARORS 
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