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



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variety has never been sold, to my knowledge, pre- 

 vious to this spring for less than $4 or $5 per 100. 

 I am now offering them at $5 per 1 ,000 and $20 per 

 5.000. 



NEW HOME. — This variety was introduced by 

 me in the spring of 1!)05. I have been growing the 

 variety for seven or eight years, and have grown it 

 more largely than any other sort, because it paid 

 me better. It is not a new and untried variety, but 

 has been handled in large quantities. I have shipped 

 it in carload lots to Boston market, where it iavari- 

 ably brought a cent or two more per quart than the 

 Gandy and other fancy berries. In the summer of 

 1905, just as I was finishing up my Excelsior and 

 started in with the New Home, I received the fol- 

 lowing letter, which speaks for itself. I will say 

 that in 1905 I had a very large crop, almost all of 

 which sold for 10 to 14 cents per quart : 



Fruit and Produce 



15 fANEUIL HALL MARKET 



['Ctal 



any 24, 1905. 



Mr. ». P. Allen, 



Sallabury, Md. 

 Dear Sir.- As wired, 74 orates of ExoelelorS sold at 7 oejite 3 crate 

 of Hew Homes at, 14 oentfl, 2 orates of your father's at 10 cente. we 

 are glad to aee you get to shipping the new berry, aa we think they 

 will do well eTery day. They were a little green today., but Do doubt 

 this will be lmprOTed upon after a day or two. Our market le In gooc 

 6hape on good stoofc , and we think will oontlnue eo . We oertalnly ho> 

 we ahall be able to ahow you some good prloea on your bast stook- 

 Very truly yours . 



Diet. H. E. K 





and the best keeping and shipping berry grown, 

 Hoffman not excepted; vigorous growth and, unlike 

 Gandy, will produce a large crop on either high or 

 low land. The fruit is so firm and the keeping 

 quality so excellent, it does not require picking 

 oftener than three times a week, when it will usually 

 make 1,000 quarts or more per acre at a single 

 picking during the height of the season. Pickers 

 are always anxious to pick these berries, and I have 

 had good pickers that would pick forty quarts of 

 New Home berries in an hour; some say they can 

 do better than that. 



I have a fine stock of these plants this year, and 

 have put the price as low as other standard varie- 

 ties, and everybody can have a chance at it. 



I was in Connecticut a few weeks ago, and one 

 grower told me that it was an excellent bentV with 

 him, and brought gtwo cents more with him than 

 other fancy berries that he was growing. 



CHELLIE. — This berry has been on the market, 

 now for several years, but for some reason I see lit- 

 tle of it in the catalogues, possibly owing to the fact 

 that it makes very large plants and but few of them. 

 This variety cannot be grown profitably at the price 

 s'usually charged for plants, but with me it is an ex 

 : cellent variety, and produces very fine berries, of 

 good quantity that are extra fancy, larpe, rather 

 pointed and very firm. This is just the kind to 

 suit your customers who want somethirg a little 

 better than anybody else and are willing to pay for 

 them. I think our customers who grow a few and 

 want them very nice would do well to give this 

 berry a trial. 



BISMARCK. — This is a strong grower and very 



Eroduct.ive. It has a perfect blossom and resem- 

 les the Bubach vcrv much in habit and growth. 

 Too well known to need furthei description. 



BOSTON PRIZE.— Very strong, healthy plants 

 with wonderful root growth that prepares it to bear 

 the heaviest crop of fruit. The berries are well 

 formed and well colored. 



The description of the New Home is as follows : BRUNETTE. — Originated by Granville Cowing 



As late and as large as Gandy, fruit a bright red of Indiana and is noted for its fine quality. Fruit 



color that does not lose its lustre and turn dark is medium sized, dark rich red to the center and 



after being picked a long time; uniformly large size, very productive. Nothing finer in quality grown. 



