Enjoy Strawberries From Your 
Own Garden 
A small amount of expense and effort on a 
small garden plot will be well repaid in pleasure 
and profit. Two hundred plants will make a nice 
small garden, 500 a fine large garden. 
Your own strawberry garden will mean not 
only plenty of fresh strawberries for table use 
but also plenty to can and preserve for winter 
use. With the new high quality berries like 
Dorsett, Fairfax, Xarcissa and others you will 
be proud to show them to and share them with 
your friends. 
Not only that, but the surplus is almost always 
salable at a good price. 
With the Everbearing varieties like Gem, Mas- 
todon and others you can have berries through- 
out late summer and fall until after freezing 
weather. 
Read these letters from folks who have had 
strawberries from their own garden to use, to 
share and to sell. 
Big Return from Small Outlay 
Jefferson Co., Ky., February 20th, 1936. — I have 
been growing your plants in a small way for 
several years and have had with them more 
pleasure and profit, considering- the small outlay 
of money and labor required, than with any other 
item in my garden. — Mr. Harry Stewart. 
Very Good for a Greenhorn — or Anyone Else 
Baltimore Co., Md., April 18th, 1936. — In May 
1934 I ordered of your company 100 Southland, 
100 Premier strawberry plants. Last season 
there were 256 quarts of berries picked from the 
two varieties, of which 176 were Premier. Not 
bad for a greenhorn. My patch of Big Joe is 
looking wonderful. Came through the severe 
winter fine. Enjoyed your Berry Book very 
much. Don't forget me next year. — Mr. Jack T. 
Hicks. 
Ready Market for Extra Berries 
Campbell Co., Va., June 11th, 1936. — Plants pur- 
chased from you in Spring 1935 did exceptionally 
well and I found a ready market for the extra 
berries which I could not use. — Mr. W. G. 
Cartlich. 
Allen's Plants or Your Own? 
By using your own you save the cost of plants 
and transportation but you lose in other ways. 
1. The expense of digging and cleaning your 
own plants. With inexperienced help and with 
soil heavy and hard this is quite a task. 
2. Every row you dig decreases your own crop. 
With fair prices expected or thin rows to dig 
from, this loss counts up fast. 
3. The invigorating effects that often come 
from a change of soil and climate. There is often 
a marked gain. 
4. The convenience of having plants right at 
hand when you want them. 
5. The beneficial results of early planting are 
well known. You can take advantage of the first 
"open spell" (in the north) by setting Allen's 
plants instead of digging your own. 
6. Well cleaned plants, with evenly bunched 
straightened roots making setting easier, quicker 
and better. 
7. Allen's plants are growTi for plant purposes 
in a light sandy loam soil. Many fine strawberry 
beds are grown on heavy soil but the plants 
would be short rooted and knotty if dug from 
such soils. There would be less resistance to 
drought and mechanical disturbances. Many of 
our customers find that with Allen's plants they 
get finer stock at a lower cost that will give 
better results than their own. 
A delightful way to finish a meal 
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