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Best Varieties to Plant 



Your success in growing strawberries will depend very largely on the varieties 

 you select. You will find the variety descriptions in this Berry Book accurate and 

 dependable. Some of the varieties we have given high praise. You will find it 

 well merited. Other varieties which are good in many ways, but have some weak- 

 nesses, you will find described just as we have found them with their weaknesses 

 mentioned. Our list of around 30 varieties has been selected from several hundred 

 commercial varieties grown, and all our varieties are good. But we feel that there 

 are several outstanding varieties that we can recommend so strongly that you 

 need have no hesitation in making your selection. 



For the man who wants great quantities of large, fancy ber- 

 ries, of fine appearance and quality for home market or nearby 

 shipment, we unhesitatingly recommend Premier for early, Big 

 Joe for midseason and Chesapeake, Wm. Belt, or Big Late for 

 late. Read what we say of these varieties and get your order 

 in early. You cannot go wrong with any of them. 



Other varieties of proven worth, favorably known and grown by many good 

 strawberry growers, are Gibson, Sample, Haverland, Lupton, Gandy, Sen. 

 Dunlap, Paul Jones and McAlpin. 



Burgess and Cooper are most promising among the newer varieties. 



Klondyke, Missionary and Aroma are the great southern, long distance 

 shipping berries. Aroma is a fine late variety, north or south. 



Champion and Mastodon are the best Everbearers, Champion for the 

 home, Champion and Mastodon commercially. 



SATISFIED CUSTOMERS COME BACS 



El Paso Co., Col., April 11, 1927. 

 I received my strawberry plants on April 7th. They were in splendid shape. They surely are 

 very fine plants, and they are looking nice this evening as we had a nice rain today. I will remem- 

 ber The W. F. Allen Company when I want strawberries again. 



MRS. LYMAN H. SPROUL. 



WE AIM TO PLEASE 



Essex Co., Mass., May 10, 1927. 

 Over a month ago I ordered from you 100 plants each of three varieties of your strawberries. 

 They were duly and safely received in fine condition and everything about the handling of this 

 small order was very satisfactory indeed. WALTER G. MOREY. 



HE WILL GET DEPENDABLE INFORMATION 

 Look up our description of Red Gold on page 20 



Bristol Co., Mass., Aug. 13, 1927. 

 I received my berry plants in good condition. The Red Gold was set out the night I received 

 them and they made an immense growth of runners. Will you tell me just what you think of this 

 variety, as you must have fruited it this season t If it is O. K. I want to put out a bed this fall. 

 Your plants are surely O. K. when treated properly. I would like to know how old a Chesapeake 

 bed has got to be before it is in its prime. I set my first ones out nearly four years ago, and it 

 grows better and better each year. They surely are a wonderful berry, and people whom you can 

 reason with will pay 10c. a box more for them than other berries which look equally as good. I 

 sold my first berries three years ago, and the same customers come each year from a nearby city 

 to get them, which shows how good they are. WALTER J. HATCH. 



ALWAYS FINE SUCCESS WITH ALLEN'S DEPENDABLE PLANTS 



Essex Co., Mass., May 15, 1927. 

 We are raising three varieties of berries this year, Howard, New York, and Heritage. We like 

 New York best for our own use, because they are the sweetest berry grown. We have always had 

 fine success with your berry plants. We had Premier or Howard 17 of you last year. 



ELEANOR U. BROOKS. 



