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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 growii 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 do 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 mxOterial 

 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. This 

 is costly but well worthwhile for users of strawberry plants. 



6. The use of abundant plant food. We use about 1500 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. Chlorodane 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 specializa- 

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

 and shipping fine strawberry plants for 77 years. We believe this means much to 

 you as a grower. 



McKean Co. Pa. March 15, 196L 'Til have 

 to admit that I have shopped around during 

 my years of raising strawberries, but your 

 plants being tops in all ways, you now have 

 me for a steady customer. I've never known 

 plants that could surpass the ones you grow. 

 Next year my order will be between twelve 

 and fifteen thousand plants." 

 J^ - -^^^ tllil, /- lUlllll-L —CARL E. OHM AN, JR. 



