24 ALLEN'S BOOK OF BERRIES — 1928 



More good plants for our customers (taken September, 1927). 



Late Varieties 

 CHESAPEAKE 



Chesapeake will joutship and outsell any other strawberry grown. We believe 

 it to be the best fancy late berry ever introduced, and is, so far, the only worthy 

 running mate for Premier we know. Some of the reasons why we like Chesapeake: 



1. Appearance. The berries are handsome in appearance because of their 

 large size, beautiful, rich, red color, glossy surface, uniform shape and bright 

 green cap. 



2. Size. The berries are very large and hold their size well to the end of the 

 season. In this respect, it is the best berry we ever saw, even beating Premier 

 in this particular. 



3. Quality. Chesapeake is delicious in flavor. Only a few of the very best 

 varieties like Wm. Belt, Big Late and McAlpin equal Chesapeake in quality. 



4. Firmness. The berries are firm enough to stand shipment to distant 

 markets. In fact, they will ship better than any large berry we have ever grown. 

 On our local auction markets, solid carloads of Chesapeake will often bring 

 $2.00 or $3.00 per crate of 32 quarts more than any other variety except Gandy, 

 which sells with Chesapeake. 



5. Growth. The one weakness of Chesapeake is that it is sometimes difficult 

 to get sufficient plants for a good fruiting bed. Unlike Premier, which will do well 

 on all types of soil, rich or poor, Chesapeake needs land that has been well manured 

 and it needs good care. Given these, it will produce enough strong, heavy-rooted 

 plants for a good fruiting bed. Chesapeake produces a medium number of large, 

 strong plants rather than great quantities of smaller ones. It is hard to get great 

 numbers of plants. That is one of the reasons why many plant men do not push 

 this variety, and the plants for the same reason can never be cheap as compared 

 to free-growing varieties, but the results are well worth paying a little more in 

 order to get true-to-name Chesapeake. 



6. Healthy Foliage. Next to Premier, Chesapeake has the healthiest foliage 

 of any variety on our list. During the very wet picking season of 1924, Chesapeake 

 and Premier were the only varieties we had that were almost entirely free from 

 rust. They both produced a fine crop and were the only ones that did. Big Joe and 



