^ ^r IMPORTANT ^ & 



ORDERS should be sent in jnst as early as pos- expect to pay an additional 25 cents for the barrel, 



sible— it is better for you as well as t he nurseryman, and if we buy two pounds of sugar for 10 cents we 



__,,.. ■ dc not expect to pay two cents more for wrapping 



TIME OE SHIPMENT— from the time you receive / *V , ,, . 



1 _. , . * . . it up, and if such charges were made we would not 



this catalogue to May 1st. Our heaviest shipments _f 



mJ a ' . „ go back to that grocer. N ot so much that we would 



are made in March and first half of April. . ., , , , 



aie iuuuc iu r- care f or tne amoun t f two cents for wrapping the 



GUARANTEE. — I guarantee plants ordered by sugar or the twenty- five cc-n;s for the barrel, but 

 mail or express to reach customers in good condi- we would not stand for the principla of paying the 

 tion when promptly taken from express office and price quoted for an article and then having a lot of 

 opeued at once. additional extra charges tacked on and why should 



AT PURCHASER'S RISK.-Plants ordered to be we? The principle is the same when we are charged 

 shipped bv freight after March 20th will be at pur. for the package m winch our plants are packed, 

 chaser's risk. Express is always safest Ourprice includes the packing and the package. 



TRUE TO NAME.- While I use every precaution . TWENTY-FiVE'S.-All plants are tied twenty-five 

 to have all stock true to name, and am sure that I in a bundle - 



am as successful in doing this as any one in the PAYMENT.— Iov iriably cash in advance, 

 business. I will not beheld responsible for any sum remit by Money Order, Registered Letter or 

 greater than the cost of the stock, should any prove Draft . Postage stamps for fractional part of a dol- 

 otherwise than as represented. i ar acce pted; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 cents pre- 



PACKING.— I make no charge for boxing or pack- ferred. Foreign customers will please send Money 

 ing at rates quoted in this catalogue. Even-thing Order on Salisbury, Md. 



is delivered f. o. b. trains at rates named. We do DO YOU KNOW of two or three persons who buy 

 not charge one price for the plants and then extor- plants and seeds and want the best of everything? 

 tion on our customers by charging them a big price If so, they are the people that I should like very 

 on old boxes and barrels. In buying plants I have much to get acquainted with. Their names and 

 had verv satisfactory prices quoted, and when the address on a postal or enclosed with your order ad- 

 biil came there was quite a nice little profit charged dressed to W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., would serve 

 up for packi g boxes, etc. When we go to our as an introduction. Will you attend to it? Now 

 grocer and buy a barrel of flour for $5.00 we do not please don't forget. 



Three Hundred Dollars 



For Three Dozen Strawberry Plants 



I will give a new $1 00.00 bank note to any man, to it in productiveness, size, firmness and vigor of 



woman or child who will send me 12 plants of any plant, or for any variety that equals the Virginia 



new unintroduced variety of strawberries, named or in the above named qualities and is a single day 



unnamed, that is as early as VIRGINIA and superior earlier. 



AIM ADDITIONAL ORRER 

 I will give a new $100.00 bank note to any per- productiveness, quality, size and color of fruit. 

 son sending me 12 plants of any new unintroduced healthfulness and vigor of plant, or for any variety 

 variety of strawberries, named or unnamed, that is equaling the Chesapeake in these respects and is 

 as late as the CHESAPEAKE and superior to it in later in ripening. 



STILLANOTHER ORRER 



I will give a new $100.00 bank note to any per- variety of strawberries, named or unnamed, that 

 son sending me 12 plants of any new unintroduced is superior to the GOOD LUCK, all merits considered. 



THE CONDITIONS 

 Any person can compete for either or all three of tiality will be shown, either in location given plants 

 the prizes, but can compete for only one of the pi izes or in the awarding of prizes. The prizes will be 

 with the same variety. When sending the plants awarded and paid after fruiting in June, 1908, and 

 be sure to write your name and address plainly on all plants not capturing a prize will be destroyed 

 the outside of the package, so that I may be sure absolutely unless I have instructions in writing to 

 who it is from. State on postal which prize or the contrary from the sender. All plants should be 

 prizes you wish to compete for. Make all corre- sent as early as possible after March 1st, by mail or 

 spondence short and write plainly. All plants sent express, prepaid and packed in moss. Send 12 good 

 will be given the same show and positively no par- plants of each variety entered and no more. 



ADDRESS 

 PLAINLY 



; W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 



