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ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES— 1924 



Senator Dunlap. Medium size, vigorous, and productive, easy to grow. 



Midseason Varieties 



Abington. An old standard most popular in Massachusetts and other parts of 

 New England. Berries large, good qulaity. Blossoms perfect. Price list page 35. 



BIG JOE (JOE JOHNSON) (JOE) 



A money maker for the man who has a market for large, high-quality, good look- 

 ing berries. Big Joe is a vigorous grower and very productive. A large bright green 

 cap on the berries makes them very handsome and show up well in the package. This 

 variety is especially valuable where there is a local or nearby market, but here in Mary- 

 land even tho Big Joe is not an extra firm shipping berry it does bring the price and tops 

 the market at its season. The berries are so large and so pretty the buyers just can't 

 help bidding on them. Market gardeners who retail their berries or haul them into 

 city or town markets or for those who sell at the farm and roadside markets, Big Joe 

 should be grown as the mid-season variety. It is a strong pollenizer, making it valu- 

 able to plant with Haverland, Paul Jones, Big Late, Sample and other imperfect flower- 

 ing varieties of its season. Price list page 35. 



Delicious. We fruited this variety in 1923 for the first time. The season was 

 very dry and our plant beds were very thick. This, might have been the reason for 

 the poor showing of Delicious. It certinly makes plenty of plants, has healthy foliage 

 and sets a plenty of berries, but under our conditions this year it produced a very shy 

 crop. Premier right along side of it produced several times as many berries that were 

 much better looking than the Delicious. However, we received a letter from a neighbor 

 of the originator who praised this variety very highly as the best one he had ever seen. 



