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M'^c¥f\e{(\Y\ Stands out among the Ever- 

 ddlUUUII bearing varieties just as 

 Premier does among the spring bearing kinds. 

 It is rightly called the Supreme Everbearer. 

 Here are some of the reasons for its supe- 

 riority. 



1. Large Size. The berries are larger than 

 any other Everbearing kind. See Front Cover. 



2. Mastodon will bear a heavier crop of 

 large berries than any other Everbearing 

 variety. 



3. The berries are firm enough to ship or 

 haul moderate distances to market. 



4. The berries are handsome in appearance 

 and good in quality. Perhaps not quite as 

 sweet as the Champion but superior in every 

 other respect. 



5. The plants are more vigorous than any 

 other good Everbearing kind. They make 

 foliage enough to protect the berries from the 

 sun in summer and from the frost in late fall. 



Every strawberry garden should have 

 Everbearing strawberries, and part or all of 

 the Everbearers should be Mastodon. You can 

 set plants in March or April and enjoy straw- 

 berries fresh from the vines all summer and 

 fall. 



Money in Everbearers? As a profit-maker 

 we have never pushed any Everbearing vari- 

 ety. If, however, you can make money with 

 any of them. Mastodon is the one. We feel 

 that under certain conditions there are good 

 possibilities for a fair profit. (Read letter of 



R. W. Varrill, Page 7). The ground should be 

 rich and moist and a ready market at good 

 prices should be available. There are two 

 things which make the venture attractive: 

 One is that your returns would come quickly 

 as compared with any other fruit crop. An- 

 other thing is that if your soil should not be 

 especially adapted to growing Everbearers and 

 you did not make a good profit from them, you 

 still have the possibilities for a spring crop. 

 Entirely apart from its Everbearing qualities, 

 Mastodon is an excellent spring fruiting kind, 

 bearing big crops of big handsome berries 

 suitable for market. 



Hill System. Years of observation have 

 convinced us that you will get more and better 

 berries from your Mastodon plants if the run- 

 ners are kept cut off. At the most do not 

 allow more than five or six well spaced runner 

 plants to form. Big, strong, individual plants 

 always seem to have more ben-ies than those 

 which make runners. The blossoms have a 

 better chance to become pollenated and pro- 

 duce large, perfect berries and the effort of 

 the plants is concentrated on fruit production 

 rather than making runners. Set plants 15 

 inches apart in rows 2 to 2^/^ feet apart. 



Yield. A crop of one quart during the sum- 

 mer and fall for each plant set is not unusual, 

 although above the average. The better the 

 conditions under which plants are set and 

 grown, and the better, stronger plants you 

 start out with, the more nearly you can ap- 

 proach this yield. 



Three Crops? Some plant growers, we notice, claim three crops for Mastodon. That is, 

 the crop the same summer and fall after the plants are set in the spring, a crop the following 

 spring, and a third crop the second summer and fall. This probably has been done and will be 

 done again, but we do not believe you should count on it. Irrigation, if available, would make 

 three crops more possible. In our opinion Mastodon is good enough without over-stating its 

 possibilities. Get Allen's good, well-rooted, True to Name plants and you will realize the possi- 

 bilities of Mastodon Everbearing to the utmost. 



Champion (Progressive) Sly Inl 



troduced first as Progressive and later as 

 Champion was the first really good Everbear- 

 ing variety, and is the one which put the 

 Everbearer in popular favor in the home gar- 

 den. Champion remained the outstanding 

 Everbearing variety until the introduction of 

 Mastodon. As compared with Mastodon, 

 Champion makes a less vigorous plant growth, 

 it is equally productive, although the berries 

 average smaller in size, and it is better in 

 quality. On account of its better quality it is 

 still liked by many in the home garden. Seems 

 to be better in many parts of the South and 

 in some localities growers further North are 

 using it in commercial plantings. Both Cham- 

 pion and Mastodon are good for the home 

 garden. Take your choice. We have some 

 nice plants. Set them in March or April and 

 enjoy luscious berries all summer and fall. 



Berri-Supreme ^^ 



new variety 

 which originated in 

 Utah, highly praised by the originator and 

 undoubtedly a money maker for him. Our 

 limited experience indicates that the plant 

 growth is not quite as vigorous as Mastodon; 

 the berries average almost as large as the 

 Mastodon, and as high in quality as Champion; 

 productiveness about the same as Champion 

 and Mastodon. Well worth trying. Further 

 test may prove it to be equal or superior to 

 Champion or Mastodon. Price list, page 23. 



A new variety which 

 we obtained from a 

 Michigan grower. Our trial plots indicated 

 that it was very similar to the Berri-Supreme. 

 Further test may show marked diff'erences but 

 up to now Super Giant has shown up about 

 the same as Berri-Supreme in comparison to 

 Champion and Mastodon. Try a few. Price 

 list, page 23. 



Super Giant 



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