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ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES— 1927 



Chesapeake — the best late berry 



Late Varieties 



CHESAPEAKE 



We believe Chesapeake to be the best fancy late berry ever introduced, and 

 it is the only worthy running mate for Premier that we know of. Chesapeake will 

 outship and outsell any other strawberry grown. It has many good points, and we 

 are going to enumerate them: 



1 . Size. The berries are large in size and hold up their size well to the end of 

 the season. In this respect, it is the best berry we ever saw, even beating Premier 

 in this particular. This past season, which was very dry and therefore hard on late 

 berries which were grown on high land, we had only two varieties which equalled 

 Chesapeake in size. One was Cooper and the other Burgess, neither of which pro- 

 duced as large a crop as Chesapeake. 



2. Quality. Chesapeake is delicious in flavor. Only a few of the very best 

 varieties like Wm. Belt, McAlpin and Big Late, equal Chesapeake in quality. 



3. Firmness. The berries are firm enough to stand shipment to distant mar- 

 kets. In fact, they will ship better than any large berry we have ever grown. On 

 our local auction markets, solid carloads of Chesapeake will often bring $2.00 or 

 $3.00 per crate of 32 quarts more than any other variety except Gandy, which 

 sells with Chesapeake. 



4. Appearance. The berries are handsome in appearance because of their 

 large size, beautiful, rich, red color, uniform shape and bright green cap. 



