W. F. ALLEN'S PLANT AND SEE 1 CATALOGUE. 



load and it invari- 

 ably brought as 

 [much and usually 

 a cent or two more 

 'per quart than 

 ;Gandy, not once 

 fhas it brought 

 ^less. Ttie greater 

 ^part of my patches 

 If rom which I pick- 

 sed fruit the past 

 I season was an old 

 ^bed that had not 

 §received a pound 

 fof manure or fer- 

 tilizer since pick- 

 Ping the last crop 

 \ and only ver3 7 or- 

 dinary cul 1 1 v a- 

 tion. Notw i t h- 

 standing this we 

 loaded car after 

 car of large, regu- 

 larly and evenly 

 haped berries al- 

 imost every one be- 

 ting as uniform as 

 lif made in mould 

 ~and presenting the 

 Iprettiest show in 

 Ithe crates of any 

 iberriee that I ever 

 ^handled. I have 

 had reproduced a 

 letter received 

 from Conant & 

 Bean of Boston, 

 just as r we were 

 winding* up the 



vigor of plants, g with the added advantage of Excelsior and starting in with the New Home, 

 being earlier and ripening its fruit in a shorter The letter speaks for itself. The bulk of.the 

 season, thereby enabling the grower to get his crop sold for 10 cents to 14 cents. I have made a 

 crop off before the older varieties invade the considerable reduction in the price of New Home 

 market. This statement is corroborated by Mr. 

 Irving Jones, who has been acquainted with 

 the Climax from the first and who saw the "Vir- 

 ginia growing the past season. Those who buy 

 plants this year will make no mistak'e. 



"The NCW Home." — In my 1905 catalogue 

 I described the New Home as follows: 



"As late and large as Gandy, fruit a bright red color 

 that does not lose its lustre and turn dark after being 1 

 picked a long time; uniform large size and ihe best 

 shipping and keeping berry grown. Hoffman not ex- 

 cepted; vigorous grower and unlike Gandy. will produce 

 a large crop on either high or low land: the fruit is so 

 firm, and keeping quality so excellent it does not need 

 to be picked oftener than three times a week, when it 

 will usually make 1,000 quarts or more per acre at each 

 picking during the height of the season. Pickers are . 

 always anxious to pick these berries and several have ftj _ 

 told me they could pick forty quarts or more p* r hour, if 

 and one man declared that he picked twenty quarts in "/] ,y ^ 

 twenty minutes. £7~?^ ^<- 



Since writing the above I have harvested an- 

 other crop of this berry, I grow more of it than 

 all other varieties combined because it pays me 

 best. I have shipped it this year by the car 



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CONANT & BEAN. 



Fruit and Produce. 



15 FANEUIL HAUL MARKET 



Mr. W. F. Allen, 



Salisbury, 

 Dear Sir,- As wired, 74 orates of 2xoel3lor5 sola at 7 oanta 3 era 

 of Hew Homes at, 14 oents, Z orates of your father's at 10 cents. I 

 are glad to see you get to snipping the new berry, as we chink they 

 will do well every day. They were a. little green today., but no dou' 

 this will be improTed upon after a day or two. Our market is in go< 

 shape on good stook, and we think will oontinue so. We oertalnly hi 

 we shall be able to show you some good prices on your best stook. 

 Very truly yours , 



