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cleaned plants, bunched evenly, with roots straightened, make setting easier, 

 quicker and better. 



4. Plants should be selected and any weak, poorly rooted ones discarded. 

 There should be full count of good plants. 



5. Proper packing — with roots in layers of moist sphagnum moss and the 

 tops to the outside of the crate, with bunches firm enough to prevent shaking 

 around but not tight enough to cause heating. Plants should be packed to reach 

 you in good growing condition — fresh and moist — but not rotten nor dried up. 



6. Plants to be of greatest value should reach you when you want them and 

 not after your best planting season has passed. Prompt shipment from freshly 

 dug plants. 



A falling down in any one of these things would detract from the value of 

 the plants and an assurance that they are done properly maintains to the utmost 

 their capacity for getting results. 



It is on the dependable quality of our plants for producing results that we 

 base our request for your orders. 



Perhaps the fact that Mr. W. F. Allen and three sons own this business and 

 are constantly and actively engaged in carrying it on, helps to maintain our de- 

 pendable quality plants. That we are maintaining it is attested by our many 

 free will testimonials, some of which are printed in this Book. Read them. Also 

 notice on page 15 copies of purchase records (picked at random from our files) 

 of some customers who believe in Allen's Plants. 



Perfect and Imperfect Varieties. Perfect flowering varieties planted alone 

 will mature a crop of perfect fruit. Imperfect flowering varieties should have per- 

 fect varieties planted with them, at least one row for every five or six. When two 

 varieties are used in equal amounts, they are often alternated three or four rows 

 of each. In our price-list, perfect flowering varieties are followed by "per" — im- 

 perfect varieties by "imp." 



Mulching. A mulch is applied for one or all of three reasons: First, to protect 

 the plants from freezing and thawing of the soil in winter; second, to keep the soil 

 cool and moist during the season when fruit is being produced; third, to keep the 

 berries from being spattered with dirt by rain during fruiting season. 



The mulch should be applied in the fall. In the spring when plants begin to 

 start, this is raked to the center of the rows and there serves the purpose of retard- 

 ing the growth of weeds and grass, keeping the ground loose and moist and the 

 fruit clean. Use coarse manure, marsh grass, rye straw or similar material. 



Distance to Plant. We recommend setting the plants in rows 3 Yi feet to 4 

 feet apart, or even as much as V/i feet if the soil is very fertile. The plants should 

 be set 15 to 24 inches apart in the row, depending on the varieties set, the width. 

 of the rows themselves and the fertility of the land. Free growing varieties like 

 Dunlap, Missionary, Paul Jones, Klondyke and Aroma which make large num- 

 bers of plants should be set farther apart than varieties like Chesapeake, Cooper, 

 New York and others that make larger plants, but not so many of them. When 

 set in rows 3 feet 8 inches apart and spaced 18 to 20 inches apart in the row, it 

 requires about 8,000 plants per acre. 



IN PERFECT CONDITION 



Mobile Co., Ala., Mar. 20, 1927. 

 The 200 strawberry plants I ordered from you came by parcel post on the morning of March 

 18th, in perfect condition. We had the ground ready for them and planted them that same after- 

 noon. JOHN BOWERS. 



ONLY PLANTS THAT STOOD THE DROUGHT 



Spartanburg Co., S. C, Feb. 19, 1927. 

 I don't see how you can sell the Mastodon, true-to-name, so much cheaper than others do, 

 but am hoping it will be so. The plants I ordered from you last year are the only ones I ordered 

 that stood the drought we had. MRS. J. S. LOYLESS. 



