PICKING THE WINNERS 
Early 
Premier 
Fairfax 
Midland 
Midseason 
Catskill 
Temple 
Late 
Chesapeake 
Fairpeake 
Very Late 
Redstar 
Everbearing 
Gem 
Mastadon 
The safe early strawberry. Frost proof. Has produced a crop every 
year for 33 straight years since its introduction. Very productive, 
profitable, and popular in all Northern and Middle States. Allen's 
Premier — an amazingly vigorous strain! 
The top-quality berry. Quite productive. Berries large, firm, beautiful, 
becoming dark when full ripe. Ideal berry for home garden. Very 
profitable for roadside market, fancy trade. High quality brings repeat 
sales. Widely adapted North to Middle South. Where quality tells, 
Fairfax sells! 
Outstanding New Early Berry Plants equal Premier in productiveness. 
Berries larger, firmer better quality than Premier. One of the best for 
freezing. Midland weakness — makes too few plants. Blakemore, 
light and quite tart, is a fine early shipping berry adapted chiefly 
from Maryland South. Blakemore is the great southern shipping berry. 
The leading midseason berry. Heaviest producer of any leading 
variety — more big berries. Good quality, firm, attractive. Excellent 
for freezing. Catskill weakness, less vigorous than formerly. Adapted 
from Canada South to Missouri and North Carolina. Best midseason 
berry — it's safe. 
First introduced as red stele resistant variety. Very vigorous and pro- 
ductive. Now leading variety in Eastern Maryland, replacing Blake- 
more. Big Joe, a fine old variety. Still good but giving way to newer, 
more productive kinds. Sparkle and Robinson proving themselves 
in certain sections in the North and Middle West. 
The aristocrat of Strawberries. For years highest selling late 
berries. Large, firm, very beautiful, fine quality. Con- 
sidered shy plant maker but our present strain has always 
made plenty of plants. Most profitable late berry in many 
sections. 
Highest quality — as good as Fairfax. Berries large, firm, 
beautiful. Rather shy plant-maker. Worthy of its noted 
parents — Chesapeake and Fairfax. 
The latest very good and the best very late variety. Set Redstar 
to extend the season of good quality, high priced berries. Sure 
cropper as late blossoms escape frosts which kill many earlier 
kinds. Some fasciation detracts. 
Better than Mastodon with us. More productive, more profitable, 
berries prettier, better shipper, equal in quality. Not as good as 
Mastodon for spring crop. Superlection most vigorous ever- 
bearer. Production, light, pretty color-may surpass Gem. 
Most popular and widely grown Everbearer. A strong grower. 
Berries large, good quality, good shippers, excellent for home 
use or market. A good spring cropper in addition to summer and 
fall berries. Streamliner, larger berries, attractive, good 
quality. One of best ever bearers. 
Copyright 1949 by W. F. Allen Company, Salisbury, Maryland 
