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REGISTERED 



Growing strawberries for best results with your own efforts is off to a good 

 start by using Allen's Winning Plants. These are registered and are grown under 

 the following rigid schedule. As a berry grower you cannot afford to do all of 

 these things but you should insist that your plant grower does them for you. You 

 can realize most of the benefits from this program by renewing your planting 

 stock every year or two. 



Here are the things we must do to qualify for the registered label which 

 means so much to you as a grower: 



1. Planting stocks from virus-free sources must be used. 



2. Virus-free stock must be kept virus free. This requires 12 to 14 dustings to kill 

 the aphis which is the carrier of the virus organism. 



3. This superior stock must be grown in fields isolated from varieties where virus- 

 free plants are not yet available and from other fields of ordinary plants in the 

 community. 



4. Provide a screen house from which constantly a basic stock of indexed virus- 

 free plants may come. 



5. Soil fumigation to control or eliminate root nematodes. Nemagon is the mate- 

 rial used, as that has been found to be the most effective fumigant to date for 

 nematode control. Our plant fields are all fumigated twice during the growing 

 season. 



6. The use of abundant plant food. We use about 1800 pounds per acre to keep 

 them growing at their best. 



7. A minor element mixture is added to the fertilizer to avoid the possibility of 

 any weakness resulting from any minor element deficiency. 



8. Aldrin is added to the fertilizer to kill ants, cutworms, grubworms, etc., which 

 might kill or weaken the plants. 



9. Constant inspection to make sure that planting stock is free from red stele and 

 that the soil in which they are to be planted is also clean. 



10. With ALLEN'S PLANTS you get all the above plus the benefit of our special- 

 ization and experience. We grow no other nursery product and we have been 

 growing and shipping fine strawberry plants for 80 years. We believe this means 

 much to you as a grower. 



Sunflower Co., Miss., Jon. 14, 1964. 'Thank you for the great v/ork which you have done with 

 strawberries. We have used your plants for more than thirty years and have always found 

 them to be excellent." Mrs. H. S. Stansel. 



