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Growing strowfcemes for best results with your own efforts is off to a good start 

 by using Allen's Winning Plants. These ore registered aad are grown under the 

 following rigid schedule. As a berry grower you cannot afford to do all of these 

 things but you slibuld itisist that your pksHt grower do them for you. You can realize 

 most of the benefits from this program by renewing your planting stock every year 

 or two. 



Here are the things we must do to qualify for the registered label which means 

 so much to you as a growen 



1. Planting stocks from virus free sources must be used. 



2. Virus free stock must be kept virus free. This requires 12 to 14 dustings to kill the 

 aphis which is the carrier of the virus organism. 



3. This superior stock must be grown in fields isolated from varieties where virus 

 free plants are not yet available and from other fields of ordinary plants in the 

 community. 



4. Provide a screen house from which constantly a basic stock of indexed virus free 

 plants may come. 



5. Soil fumigation to control or eliminate root nematodes. Nemagon is the material 

 used, as that has been found to be the most effective fumigant to date for nematode 

 control. Our plant fields are all fumigated twice during the growing season. 



6. The use of abundant plant food. We use about 1800 pounds per acre to keep 

 them growing at their best. 



7. A minor element mixture is added to the fertilizer to avoid the possibility of any 

 weakness resulting from any minor element deficiency. 



8. Aldrin is added to the fertilizer to kill ants, cutworms, grubworms, etc., which 

 might kill or weaken the plants. 



9. Constant inspection to make sure that planting stock is free from red stele and 

 that the soil in which they are to be planted is also clean. 



10. With ALLEN'S PLANTS you get all the above plus the benefit of our specializa- 

 tion and experience. We grow no other nursery product and we have been growing 

 and shipping fine strawberry plants for 79 years. We believe this means much to 

 you as a grower. 



Macoupin Co., Illinois. April 28, 1963. "I just had to write you and let you know how well pleased 

 I am with the plants which you shipped on the 23rd of April. I got them on the 27th of April and 

 they were in very good condition and well rooted. I have people always asking where I get my 

 plants and believe me I don't hesitate to tell them. I never had a bad one in the lot." Thomas 

 Mlekush. 



