THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 



Does It Pay To Set Plants From Your Own 

 Fruiting Bed? 



Consider: 



1. The trouble and expense of digging and cleaning your own plants, especi- 

 ally where you are inexperienced at this kind of work and the soil is heavy and 

 hard. 



2. The money you would receive for the berries produced by the plants you 

 dig, including the second crop where they are kept over. 



3. The invigorating effects that often come from a change of soil and climate. 



4. The convenience of having plants right at hand when you want them. 



5. The other things you might do in the rush of spring work during the time 

 it takes to dig the plants. 



6. That you can set our plants (in the North) before (or while) digging your 

 own and thus get more of the beneficial results of early setting. 



7. The fact that plants well cleaned, with evenly bunched, straightened 

 roots makes setting easier, quicker and better. 



MR. A. W. FRIZZELL, of Baltimore County, Md., says: "My plants are doing fine. It has 

 been so wet that we could scarcely get ground ready, but as I am an old experienced hand at the 

 work, I know how to manage those items. I am going to show these folks (my neighbors) how to 

 grow fine berries, just with this 500 plants. It don't pay to take your own plants, far better to 

 take Allen's plants." 



MR. A. E. SHARP, of Kent County, Del., says that in 1925 he dug and set out 3,500 of his 

 own Premier plants, and in 1926, judging by what the rest of his patch did, he lost $32.29 over and 

 above what that quantity of our plants would have cost him, besides the work of digging and 

 getting the plants ready to set. 



Index 



Pages 

 Profit from Growing Strawberries . 4-5 

 14 Points About Growing Straw- 

 berries 6 



Don't Miss It 7 



Where and How to Grow Straw- 

 berries 8-11 



Good Plants and Their Value to 



You 12-16 



Best Varieties to Plant 17 



Premier (Howard 17) 18-19 



Other Extra Early Varieties 20 



Pages 



Medium Early Varieties 21 



Mid-Season Varieties 22-23 



Chesapeake 24-25 



Other Late Varieties 25-28 



Very Late Varieties 29 



Everbearing Strawberries 30-32 



Asparagus Roots 32 



Instructions to Purchasers 33 



Set Plants Early 34 



Price List .35 



Profit By Experience 



The experience of those who have tried our plants and found them depend- 

 able should be of value to you. Throughout this Book you will find letters from 

 our customers who have been getting results with Allen's Plants. We did not ask 

 for these letters. They are spontaneous expressions of Good Will from well 

 satisfied berry growers. Notice especially on page 15 copies of purchase records 

 of several of our customers which are typical of thousands in our files. The letters 

 which we receive and the orders that help make up purchase records like those 

 mentioned, make us feel good. Won't you let us prove to you that this praise is 

 well deserved? 



WE TRY TO MAKE THE CATALOG INTERESTING AND THE INFORMATION 



DEPENDABLE 



Bibb Co., Ga., Feb. 7, 1927. 

 It is always a pleasure to read your catalogue, whether I buy plants or not. I enclose a small 

 order. You are at liberty to substitute for Big Joe and Progressive, if you think other varieties bet- 

 ter suited to middle Georgia. WALLACE MILLER. 



