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



25 Collossus, 25 Early Ozark, 25 Florella, 25 Glen 

 Mary, 25 Haverland, 25 Highland, 25 Howard, 25 

 Hummer, 25 Meteor, 25 New York, 25 New 

 Home, 25 Oom Paul, 25 St. Louis, 25 Sample, 

 25 Dunlap, 25 Three W's, 25 Virginia, 25 Wm. 

 Belt. Twenty-five each of 25 varieties. The 

 Cream of the list, amounting to $18.95, all for 

 $15.00. 



COLLECTION "R"— Try them all. Twelve 

 plants, each of the 88 varieties listed, amounting 

 at our dozen rate postpaid to $31.65, all for $20.00. 



COLLECTION "S— Experiment Station 

 special, consisting of 25 plants, each of the 88 

 varieties of strawberry plants listed, amounting 

 at catalogue price to $39.85, all for $30.00. 



COLLECTION "T"— The "Family DeHght" 

 Home Garden Collection of Small Fruits. This 

 collection of small fruits, planted and given a 



reasonable amount of care, will bring more real 

 enjoyment and health to your family than you 

 could possibly bring them with a like amount 

 any other way. 100 St. Louis, 100 Dunlap, 100 

 New York, 100 Glen Mary and 100 Chesapeake 

 Strawberry plants, 50 Austin and 50 Lucretia 

 Dewberry plants, 50 Rathbun, 50 Eldorado Black- 

 berry plants, 50 King and 50 Cuthbert Red Rasp- 

 berrv- plants. 50 Palmer and 50 Cumberland Black 

 Raspberry plants, 25 Wilder and 25 Fays Pro- 

 lific Currants, 12 Houghton and 12 Downing 

 Gooseberries, 2 Moore's Early, 2 Eaton, 2 

 Niagara. 2 Diamond, 2 Wyoming Red and 2 

 Vergennes Grape Vines; also 100 Giant Argen- 

 lenil Asparagus and 12 Rhubarb Roots, all the 

 above for $15.00. 



*®'Order all collections by letters as Collection 

 "A," Collection "B," etc. 



DEWBERRY PLANTS. 



AUSTIN'S IMPROVED (MAYES) 



The dewberry is constantly growing in favor, and 

 Is today, next to the strawberry, the most popular of 

 all the small fruits. The vines trail on the ground 

 similar to sweet potato vines. In size and quality it 

 is the equal of any blackberry, and greatly exceeds 

 them in productiveness. The plant is perfectly hardy, 

 and commences ripening its fruit immediately after 

 late strawberries. By planting the latest varieties of 

 strawberries and the earliest varieties of dewberries, 

 such as Austin's, there need not be a single day's gap 

 between the two. The dewberry is sweet and luscious, 

 with few seeds and no hard core. The fruit has be- 

 come very popular in all marki>ts where known, and 

 more and more are being grown every year and nearly 

 always market at paying prices. If let trail on the 

 ground they should be well mulched to keep the im- 

 mense load of fruit from being spoiled by falling on 

 the ground, and the vines should be cut back to two or 

 three feet in length. The best way, however, is to 

 stake them. Our plan of cultivation is to plant in 

 rows each way two and one-half feet one way by five 

 feet the other, making about 3,500 plants per acre. 

 Cultivate both ways until plants get long and trouble- 

 some, and then cultivate only the wide way and turn 

 vines to keep cultivator from tearing them off ; or, 

 better yet, use sweeps on your cultivator. These will 

 run five or six inches under the vines and cut up the 

 grass without disturbing them. Leave vines lay on 

 the ground untill all danger of winter cold is over and 

 then, very early in the spring, before buds put out, 



stakes should be driven between each alternate hill the 

 two and one-half foot way. The stakes should be two 

 and one-half feet to three feet above ground and one 

 hill from each way should be tied to the top of the 

 stake, using binder twine for tying. If timl)er Is 

 scarce, the stakes can be used at longer intervals by 

 fixing a wire along on the stake to lay the vines over, 

 the same as grapes. When grown as above directed, 

 the plot or field in bloom is prettier than you can 

 imagine, and will bear an immense load of attractive 

 and delicious fruit. 



AUSTIN'S IMPROVED (MAYES).— An early 



dewberry of excellent quality. It produces large 

 crops, but the berries lack firmness for long shipment, 

 hence valuable chiefly for home use or local market. 

 If, however, they are kept picked up close as soon as 

 ripe and not allowed to stand too long on the vines, 

 they may be sbippod a reasonable distance. I ship 

 them to Baltimore and Philadelphia, a distance of 

 about 125 miles, but seldom try to ship them farther. ' 

 Prices will usually compare very favorably with other 

 varieties, as you get extra early fruit, which Is In 

 better demand. The berries are large, short and tblcfc. 

 Canes vigorous, hard and productive ; ripens with me 

 a week earlier than Lucretia, and for this reason Is 

 valuable to grow in connection with that variety. I 

 always plant about one-third of my field in Austin's. 

 It js very hardy and seldom fails to give a good crop. 



