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ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES— 1923 



If manure is not used, a high grade commercial fertilizer can be used to start the 

 young plants off. Apply this broadcast before the plants are set, or as a top dressing 

 afterward. Never put it in a furrow under the plants unless in very moist ground. If 

 stable manure is not used, a top dressing of fertilizer in the early spring will be very 

 beneficial to the fruiting beds. For young plants iust set or for fruiting beds any fer- 

 tilizer containing 2-5% available ammonia and 5-10% available phosphoric acid should 

 be satisfactory. We use a 5-8-5 fertilizer for top dressing in Spring. 



Perfect and Imperfect Varieties. Perfect flowering varieties planted alone will 

 mature a crop of perfect fruit. Imperfect flowering varieties should have perfect va- 

 rieties planted with them, at least one row for every five or six. When two varieties 

 are used in equal amounts, they are often alternated three or four rows of each. In 

 our price-list, perfect flowering varieties are followed by "per" — 'imperfect varieties 

 by "imp." 



Mulching. A mulch is applied for one or all of three reasons; First, to protect 

 the plants from freezing and thawing of the soil in winter; second, to keep the soil cool 

 and moist during the season when fruit is being produced; third, to keep the berries 

 from being spattered with dirt by rain during fruiting season. 



The mulch should be applied in the fall. In the spring when plants begin to start 

 this is raked to the center of the rows and there serves the purpose of retarding the 

 growth of weeds and grass, keeping the ground loose and moist and the fruit clean 

 Use coarse manure, marsh grass, rye straw or similar material. 



Number of Plants Required to Set an 



. Acre of 



Ground at a Given Distance 





Rows 24 ins. apart, plants 12 inches in row, 21,780 



" 30 



12 



17,424 



" 36 



12 



14,520 



" 42 



12 " 



12,446 



" 48 



" 12 " 



10,890 



" 24 



«< 15 <« 



17,424 



" 30 



" 15 " 



13,939 



" 36 



" 15 " 



11,616 



" 42 



" 15 " 



9,956 



" 48 



" 15 " 



8,712 



24 



" 18 " 



14,520 



" 30 



" 18 " 



11,616 



" 36 



" 18 " 



9,680 



" 42 



M 18 " 



8,297 



" 48 



" 18 " 



7,260 



" 24 



" 24 " 



10,890 



" 30 



« 24 " 



8,712 



" 36 



" 24 " 



7,260 



" 42 



" 24 " 



6,223 



" 48 



" 24 " 



5,445 



" 24 



" 30 " 



8,712 



" 30 



" 30 " 



6,969 



" 36 



" 30 " 



5,808 



" 42 



" 30 " 



4,978 



" 48 



30 



4,356 



A Useful Table. 





Rows 18 ins. apart give 9,800 yards of row 



per acre 



" 24 



" 7,530 " 



i t 



" 30 



" 5,880 " 



<< 



" 33 



" 5,323 " 



<< 



" 36 



" 4,900 *' 



<< 



" 42 



" 4,200 " 



<< 



" 48 



" 3,675 " 



« 



" 54 



" 3,267 " 



<« 



" 60 



" 2,940 " 



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Polk Co., Florida. 

 March 14, 1922. 



I have bought plants of you at 

 times for more than twenty years, 

 and have never been disappointed. 

 Oscar W. Barrett. 



Hope You Will Be With Us Many 

 Years to Come. 



Adams Co., Ohio, 

 February 7, 1922. 



I have been buying plants from 

 you for fifteen years and must say 

 I have always got good plants. I 

 bought Progressive from you five 

 years ago and picked ripe berries 

 that were covered by straw on Christ- 

 mas Day. 



John H. Grierson. 



Finest He Ever Saw. 



I received plants and must say they are the finest I ever saw 

 Vig now. 



Our Best Advertising Medium 

 is Our Friends and Customers. 



Chesterfield Co., Va. 

 December 3, 1921. 



With very much pleasure I am 

 writing to you gentlemen informing 

 you my plants arrived in very fine 

 shape and must say they were the 

 finest I and my neighbors ever saw. 

 I set them out the same morning 

 they arrived and some of my neigh- 

 bors were over to get some of my 

 plants from my old patch, which I 

 told them that I would not take any 

 chances on, that I had ordered from 

 you gentlemen, and I let them have 

 your book of berries, and they are 

 going to order from you all by see- 

 ing the nice lot you sent me. 



H. M. Clark. 



Henrico Co., Va., March 23, 1922. 

 and extra good count. They are grow- 

 R. C. Burnette. 



