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



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STEVENS' LATE CHAMPION.— 

 A very promising late variety of 

 the Gandy type, but is said to be 

 more productive. I had a few 

 rows left last year after filling 

 my plant orders, but owing to 

 the late freeze, which killed al- 

 most everything here in the 

 strawberry line, 1 could not tell 

 very much about it. I got a few 

 berries that were very nice, and 

 it leads me to believe that this 

 variety is all right. I heard so 

 many great things said about 

 this 'berry at the New Jersey 

 State Horticultural Society that 

 I planted much more of it than 

 I would otherwise have done. It 

 is said to yield large crops of 

 large. beautiful, good berries that 

 ship well very late in the season, 

 after most of the other varieties 

 have ripened and gone. It is 

 evidently a descendant of the 

 grand old Gandy, but is a much 

 better grower It is, undoubted- 

 ly, a valuable late variety. We 

 had a big demand for plants of 

 this kind last year, and so far as 

 I have heard, everybody seemed 

 to be pleased with it. We have 

 onlv a moderate supply of this, 

 this season, owing to the fact 

 that it was planted after a peach 

 nursery. I did not realize what 

 this meant until it was too late 

 to remedy it. Last season this 

 was t he strongest grower we had. 

 I have about 100.000 plants this 

 vear where I should have had 

 300.000 had I planted them else- 

 where; what I have are very nice. 



UNCLE JIM.— Makes a strong, 

 healthy growth of v«ry large fo- 

 liage, similar to New York. It 

 is said to be a chance seedling 

 found near an old fruiting patch by Mr. Jim Dornan 

 in Michigan some six years ago. Fifteen to twenty- 

 five, if grown under favorable conditions, will usually 

 fill a quart. This is an excellent berry for growers 

 who want a fancy large berry for home use. I would 

 hardly advise it for shipping purposes. 



WM. BELT.— Wm. Belt is a standard for quality the 

 country over. There are few lovers of strawberries 

 that would not cross a plot of manv varieties and pick 

 out the Wm. Belt as the best. This variety is some- 

 what subject to rust, and for this reason for a time 

 was not popular, but its superior quality and large 

 size has made many friends for it. 

 especially the amateur growers, who 

 have an appreciative fancy market, 

 or for the home table. The demand 

 for this variety was so great 2 years 

 ago that I sold every plant and 

 bought out seven other growers to 

 get plants enough to fill all my or- 

 ders. I have been on the lookout 

 ever since and now have a large stock 

 of nice plants. I know of nothing 

 that will approach it in quality, of 

 its season, except the Chesapeake. 



CLYDE. — Immensely productive; 

 fruit as large as Bubach, and would 

 ie one of the most po?)u!::r variet ies 

 >ut for the fact that its folia e usu- 

 \ ally gives away about fruiting lime, 

 and is not sufficient to protect its 

 immense crop of fruit. Owing to 

 this fact, many growers use a dress- 

 ing of nitrate of soda in the spring 

 to force vine growth, and when this 

 is done it is a very desirable sort. 

 This is a very popular variety in 

 some sections of the Middle West. 



