vV. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



ABINGION.— Tliis is a cluincv 

 seedling that 



originated in lSiK> I'v l^sur Blancli 

 aid. cf Abington. Mass.. and was iu- 

 tioduci'd by hiui in l!Mi.">. It makc< 

 pleni.v of ijlants. is a slronsr. viiror 

 ous Slower. \\itU rich, dark green 

 leaves. It has a pei feet blossom and 

 is quite large. twenty-live Ik rries 

 often tilling a quart. It won second 

 priz.' at the ilassaciuisetts Horticul- 

 tural Show on June -1. l!)o4. The 

 fruit slock-: are strong and stand 

 erect from the grounrt-; the blos-som 

 is pi rfect and well lilled with pollen. 

 It ripens uith the Cubach, averaging 

 fully as large and holds out well 

 throughout the entire season. I would 

 not hesitate to plant it in preference 

 to Buliach and recommi nd it to my 

 customers, in color it is bright red. 

 with tirra Ilesh and good Uavor. With 

 me it is moderately productive, but 

 Mr. Blanchard claims to have picked 

 !>,Ui»u guans p;r acre. It will not do 

 that here and neither will many other 

 k:nds. It is a much better grower 

 than BuLach and the fruit is of bet- 

 ter quality : in fact, it is an excellent 

 variety to plant with Bubach to po- 

 lenize it. We have tlattering reports 

 concern. ng tb.'s variety from differ- 

 ent sections of the country, and I 

 consider it one of the best of the 

 large mid-season varieties. 



HUMMER. — This is well repre 

 sented in the illus 

 traiinn. The origin is not known. I 

 obtained this variety from Mr. John 

 Kolvaard. in Michigan, who writes 

 me about the berrr as follows : "W. 

 F. Allen. Dear Sir — (»n my gro-,;nds 

 is a new strawberry that is a hum- 

 mer. Indersiaud me. 1 am not its 

 originator. It has been grown for sev- 

 eral years by a man who lives about 

 ten miUs from here. He always re- 

 fused to sell plants, even though as 

 much as S2.(»» each were offered him 

 for them, but finally, through mis- 

 take, he sold .some of the plants for 

 Sharpless. After finding it out ho 

 tried to get them back, but failed. We 

 growers ha\e not lieen able to co^i- ^ 

 pete with this ben.- in the Battle Creek mark 

 one of its merchants had its exclusive sale and ship- 



- . Ill , to Kalamazoo. Jackson, etc. 



riie iirigiial owri>M- has sold out and moved West. I 

 know of but one party besides myself who has this 

 variety : he is an old man from whom I got my plants. 

 I do wt bell re the variety has l)een introduced. It is 

 my optnion tha.t it is an English terry. The origina- 

 tor being oiit of the field and out of busini'ss. I fi^lt at 

 liberty to let you have some of the plants." I pro- 

 t ured plants from this party at once, and from his de- 

 ^rriiition I called it the Hummer and offered it to the 

 ]mblic four years ago for the rirst time. It is a very 

 ~trimg, health.v plant, somewhat resembling New 

 York. These large, vigorous plants load up with big, 

 luscious Ixrries. Anyone who buys plants of this va- 

 riety cannot help but feel that they have something 

 valuable when they see the large, stalky plants they 

 make. One customer writes ; "If you remember, 1 

 (■ought a number of varieties of strawl)erries from 

 you in the spring of liidt!; among them were the Hum- 

 mer. These plr.nts fruited this season, and I want to 

 ^ay that the Hummer lieats anything I ever saw or 

 I.eard of. I think you will have a great many orders 

 foi- them from th's sectiim." We have had many other 

 similar reports, and from all that 1 can learn this va- 

 riety has been doing good work. A good, safe one to 

 idaut. especially for home market or the home garden. 



X YOVR PI,.\.VTS T.\KE THE I,EAD. I 

 -t SIREI.V KXOW WHERE TO GET 



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■,V Ouernsey Co.. Ohio. April 2t>, 1909. 



♦ W. F. Ai.i.EX. Salisbury. Md. 

 ^ I)<ar Sir — Plants arrived in good time; 



♦.♦ were ahead of any that I have bought for 



^ y" ars. It is the 1irs-t time that I ever re- 



$ ceived plants fresh dug. and did not know 



V where I conld get fresh plants tintil your 



X plants arri>ed. I can truly say that you 



^ take the lead in plant growing. I wish to 



X thank you for the quality" of plants and man- 



Js» ner you have handled my order. I will ^ 



4 surely know where to get the best now. x 



§; Very truly. E. E. LYNN. % 





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