W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



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HAVERLAND, 



rariety Is wel 

 k ■ o w a throughout 

 the country, and the 

 demand for it seems 

 to grow larger all tht 

 while. It will be ha-d 

 to aay too much lr> 

 favor of this good 

 old standard sort. 

 and I doubt if I can 

 Improve on last 

 y e a r's description, 

 which Is as follows : 

 Hits has proven to 

 be the most popular 

 mid - season variety. 

 It was proven by a 

 teat vote several 

 years ago, it receiv- 

 ing one-third more 

 votes as being the 

 beat mid - season va- 

 riety. (There were 

 no votes sold and 

 ■o bribery at the 

 election, el t h e r. ) 

 While a pistillate 

 variety, it is one of 

 the easiest to pol- 

 lenlie. The plant is 

 healthy, large and 

 vigorous, makes am- 

 ple runners and Is 

 rery productive. The 

 bloom Is medium 

 alee and extremely 

 hardy. They should 

 be well mulched, as 

 the fruit stems are 

 not able to hold the 

 Immense load of ber- 

 riea from the ground, 

 and the straw will 

 keep them clean 

 and also make pick- 

 ing easier. This va- 

 riety is so enormous- 

 ly productive that 

 the bright, large. 

 Juicy berries lie in 

 great heaps around the plant. This berry has worked 

 lt« way to the top ; it has n</ver been boomed by any 

 Introducer, as most varieties have been. Any one not 

 thoroughly familiar with the varieties, and wishing to 

 ■tart In the strawberry business, will always be safe to 

 plant this kind. It was a leader a generation ago. and 

 unlike most other varieties, seems to be as good today 

 as It ever was. It is not likely that anyone would 

 ever regret planting the Haverland. Under favorable 

 conditions. I have seen it average as large as guinea 

 egg*. It demands close to a million plants a year to 

 supply my trade of this variety, which shows its im- 

 mense popularity. 



HEFLJN'S EARLY. — This variety seems to be 

 quite a little in demand. 

 why, I cannot imderstand. as with me it is positively 

 the poorest gr»wer and the most sickly looking plant 

 on the farm. I planted it last year in quantities suffi- 

 cient to have made at least 100.000 plants: I do not 

 believe there are 10,000, while right beside it other 

 varieties have made an excellent growth and fully up 

 to expectations. Owing to its tailure to grow, I am 

 only able to offer It in lots of 100 or less. I may plant 

 another row next year, but not more than that, as it 

 la rathvr expensive cultivating and trying to grow a 

 crop t>at persistently refuses to grow. Personally, I 

 do no/ recommend it. 



HOFFMAN. — For many years the most largely 

 grown market berry in the South. 

 It la very firm and is auite productive on heavy or 

 «£ringy land : it does not do well on sandy land. At 

 /ne station about 30 miles south of Salisbury it has 

 Deen the most largely grown variety for many years, 

 and Is always sold at the depot at paying prices, owing 

 to it* excellent carrying qualities. 



HOWARD. — A late variety, ripening with the 

 Gandy and excelling it in productive- 

 ness, also In growth and quality of fruit. It is a seedling 

 of Barton's Eclipse crossed with Gandy. It has made a 

 very good showing with me, and is spoken of in the 

 J2ttr«Z New Yorker as follows : "Late, strong, produc- 

 tive, foliage tough and resistant, very large berries, 

 firm and well colored, quality better than Gandy ; a 

 premising market sort." 



HUMMER. — Offered by me for the first time two 

 years ago, and I sold a hundred 

 thousand plants the first season. It is a very strong, 

 healthy plant, somewhat resembling New York. These 

 large, vigorous plants load up with big, beautiful, 

 luscious berries. Anyone who buys plants of this va- 

 riety cannot help but feel that they have something 

 valuable when they see the large, stai^y plants it 

 makes. My stock of plants this season is not quite as 

 large as last year, and it is somewhat doubtful if I 

 will have enough to go around. In a letter just re- 

 ceived from Mr. A. G. Saulsbury, Rldgely, Md., he has 

 this to say of the Hummer : "If you remember, I bought 

 a number of varieties of strawberries from you in the 

 Spring of 1006. These plants fruited this season, and 

 I want to say to you that the Hummer beats anything 

 I ever saw or heard of. I think you will have a great 

 many orders for them from this section this spring." 



The history of the berry is best given in a letter 

 which I received from Mr. Kolvoord, from whom I ob- 

 tained my plants. The letter is as follows : 



Kalamazoo Countv, Mich.; Jan. 21, 1906. 

 W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., Dear Sir — On my 

 grounds is a new strawberry that is a "Hummer." Un- 

 derstand me, while I am not its originator, it has been 

 grown for several years by a man who lived about ten 

 miles from here. He always refused to sell plants, 

 notwithstanding as high as $2.00 each were offered for 

 them, but two or thrpe years ago he sold by mistake for 

 Sharpies*. After he found it out he tried to induce the 

 man to dig them up. but the buyer mistrusted what he 

 had receiv.rl and said he thought those would do. We 

 growers have not been able to compete with said berry 

 in Battle Creek market. One of the merchants had its 

 exclusive sale and shipped it as a fancy berry to Kala- 

 mazoo. Jackson. Lansing, etc. The original owner has 

 sold out and removed to the West. I know of but one 

 besides myself that has this variety. He is an old man 

 from whom I crot my plants. I do not believe any In- 

 troducer has it. It is my opinion that it Is an English 

 berry, because the man above alluded to Is an English- 

 man. The originator being out of the field and out of 

 the business, I feel at liberty to let you have some of 

 the plants. Yours truly, 



JOHN KOOLVORD. 



