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



1,000 Virginia, 1.000 Klondyke, 1,000 Haverland, 

 1,000 Sample, 1,000 Saunders, 1,000 Gandy, 1,000 

 Good Luck (fruit Virginia with Klondyke, fruit 

 Sample and Haverland with Saunders) ; splendid 

 value, for only $20.00. 



Collection "P" — New varieties, recommended 

 for trial ; 25 Bradley, 25 Colossus, 25 Chipman, 

 25 Dicky, 25 Fremont Williams, 25 Governor Rol- 

 lins, 25 Gill, 25 Goldsboro, 25 Golden Gate, 25 

 Great Scott, 25 Oswego, 25 Pocahontas, 25 Penna. 

 Dutchman, 25 St. Louis, 25 Shipping King, 25 

 Saratoga, 25 Wonder, 25 Three W's, 25 Mam- 

 moth Beauty, 25 Red Bird (catalogue value, 

 $15.20), all for $12.00.' 



Collection "Q" — Some of my favorites; try 

 them ; 25 Abington, 25 Buster, 25 Brandy wine, 25 

 Chesapeake, 25 Cardinal, 25 Chellie, 25 Climax, 



25 Fairfield, 25 Fremont Williams, 25 Gandy, 25 

 Good Luck, 25 Glen Mary, 25 Haverland, 25 How- 

 ard, 25 Hummer, 25 Klondyke, 25 Marshall, 25 

 Meade, 25 New Home, 25 New York, 25 Oom 

 Paul, 25 President, 25 Red Bird, 25 Sample, 25- 

 Saunders, 25 Senator Dunlap, 25 Stevens' Late 

 Champion; 25 Uncle Jim, 25 Virginia, 25 Wm, 

 Belt ; thirty varieties and an excellent list, all 

 for $0.50. 



Collection "R"— Try them all ; I will send yon 

 12 plants each of the 110 varieties of strawberry 

 plants listed in this catalogue for $20.00; lots of 

 fun and profit in watching a trial bed like this; 

 try it. . 



Collection "S" — Experiment station special ; 

 25 plants each of the 110 varieties of strawberry 

 plants listed in this catalogue for $32.00. 



DEWBERRIES. 



The Dewberry Is constantly growing in favor and is 

 today, next to the strawberry, the most popular of all 

 the small fruits. The vines trail on the ground like a 

 eweet potato vine. In size and quality it is the equal 

 of any blackberry, and greatly exceeds them in produc- 

 tiveness. The plant is perfectly hardy and commences 



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ripening its fruit immediately after late strawberriea. 

 Indeed, by planting the latest varieties of strawberries 

 and earliest dewberries, there need not be a single day'* 

 gap between the two. The dewberry is sweet and 

 luscious, with few seeds and no hard core. The fruit 

 has become very popular in all markets where known, 

 and more and more are being grown every year and 

 nearly always marketed at paying prices. It let trail 1 

 on the ground they should be well mulched to keep the 

 immense load of fruit from being spoiled by falling on 

 the ground. The best way, however, is to stake them 

 as shown in our illustration. Our plan of cultivation 

 is to plant in rows each way, two and one-half feet one 

 way by five feet the other, making about 3,500 plant* 

 per acre. Cultivate both ways till plants get long and 

 troublesome, and then cultivate only the wide way and 

 turn vines to keep the cultivator from tearing them off; 

 or, better yet, use sweeps on your cultivator. TheM 

 will run under the vines and weed u^ the grass without 

 disturbing them. Leave vines lay on the ground till all 

 danger of winter killing is over, and then early 

 in the spring, before buds put out, stakes should be 

 driven between each alternate hill the two-and-one- 

 half-foot way. The stakes should be two and one-half 

 or three feet above the ground and one hill from each 

 way tied to the top of the stake. Or where timber for 

 stukos is scarce they can be used at longer Intervals by 

 using wire to lay the vines over, same as grapes. I use 

 binder twine for tying to stakes. When grown as above 

 directed the plot or field in bloom Is prettier than yon 

 can imagine, and when fruit comes it is the wonder, 

 admiration and delight of all who see It. 



LUCRETIA. ■ — The standard dewberry, earlier 

 than the earliest blackberry and 

 as large as the largest of them. The canes are of great 

 hardiness and exceedingly prolific, thriving every- 

 where ; of slender trailing habits, and entirely free 

 from disease and insect attacks. The fruit Is superb, 

 large and handsome, jet black, rich and melting, and 

 ships and keeps well. I grow the Lucretia largely for 

 market, having as many as 50 acres in fruit at one time. 



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