Nineteen Hundred and Eight 



fe>NOTHEE MILESTONE in life's journey has been passed and for 



A^l the twenty-third time I am handing around my catalogue. First 

 J j of all I want to thank everyone who so kindly entrusted their 

 *~6 orders to me last year (1907). So generous was the patronage 

 > *— ' received that it was by far the most prosperous year I have ever 

 experienced. My stock of strawberry plants was so large that I hardly expect- 

 ed to run short on more than one or two varieties, but before the season was 

 over about twenty of the leading sorts were entirely sold out. This year my 

 plants are very fine, and my stock is larger than ever Everything in the 

 standard varieties worth growing, and all of the promising new ones, are listed, 

 making about 108 varieties of strawberries, all of my own growing — not "pedi- 

 gree stock, "but plants that are true to name, vigorous and healthy, which 

 to careful, intelligent growers means far more than "pedigree'' as applied to 

 strawberry plants. 



My facilities for handling your orders are better than ever before and sec- 

 ond to none. I have recently completed a large and conveniently equipped 

 packing house where we can handle in the best possible manner o\er '..'00,000 

 plants daily. In a wing to this building is our moss pit (a very important 

 factor). We use the best selected Jersey moss, which is the cleanest and best 

 10 l>e had. We buy it by the car load, place in pit and moisten just right — 

 neither too wet nor too dry. This insures your plants to arrive in good condi- 

 tion, makes lighter packing and less express charges than when soggy wet moss 

 is used 



I trust that my plants have given such universally good results the past 

 season that the coming season of 1908 will eclipse the past one. 1 have the 

 goods and'the facilities for handling them. May I have your orders? 



Again thanking you most cordially for past favors and trusting I may soon 

 have, t lie pleasure of serving you again, I remain, 



Yours very respectfully. 



W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 



Please Read This Twice 



I want your order for Strawberry Plants, but I want it at the right 

 time, when I know that I can serve you equally as well as anyone, and 

 better than a great majority in the business. When is the right time? 

 ? Any time after November 1 st until May 1 st. March and April, the great 

 9 planting season, almost our entire attention and that of over a hundred 

 helpers is given up to filling plant orders, and we want to fill yours. 

 Q From May 1st to May 10th we will fill a limited number of orders on any 



6 stock that is unsold and put in the very best possible order, but at purchasers 

 £ risk as to results. 



? After May 1 0fh. during June, July, August/ September and October 



9 before the 1 5th, We most positively will not fill any orders for small f 



i fruit plants. (This does not apply to vegetable plants). T 



7 We are willing to answer any questions during the summer months as * 

 ♦ promptly as possible, if written in a short letter and to the point. Long let- ^ 

 O ten are subject to long delays. This notice was made necessary from the fact 

 4 that we receive hundreds of orders for strawberry plants during the summer 



months whon we have no plants in fit condition to transplant and when not one 

 in ten could make even good plants grow if we could send them unless it were 



9 potted plants, which I do not grow at all. Thanking you for your attention, 



P I remain, Yours faithfully, 



W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 



J WHITE & WHITE, PRINTERS. 3ALISBURY, MO 



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