22 THE W. F. ALLEN CO., SALISBURY, MD. 
LATE STRAWBERRIES, continued 
Forfanc 
Fendall. ,orancy 
and lots of them, this is 
a variety that will give 
great satisfaction. Fif- 
teen thousand quarts 
per acre of Fendall, 
fruited with Aroma, 
were reported by one 
of our Indiana custo- 
mers. The berries are 
large in size and rather 
light in color, and the 
large caps add to their . 
attractiveness. The 
blossoms are imperfect 
and should be planted 
with Aroma, Big Joe, 
Ekey, Magic Gem, or 
some other good per- 
fect-flowering variety. 
Fendall, like Haver- 
land, is unable to hold 
the great bunches of fruit off the ground and should 
be well mulched on this account. Price, $7 per 1,000. 
° D We especially recommend this 
First Quality. variety in the North and in 
the New England states. The berries are large and 
pointed, somewhat like the Haverland, although a 
little darker in color and better in quality than this 
variety. It is a great cropper and fairly uniform in 
shape and color. The plants are vigorous and 
healthy and it is one of the best growers on the 
farm. The blossoms are perfect and produce an abun- 
dance of pollen, making it a good variety to plant 
with imperfect-flowering varieties of its season, as 
Hustler, Sample, etc. Price, $7 per 1,000. 
. We have not fruited this variety our- 
Gibson. selves but obtained our plants last year 
from a prominent Michigan grower, who recommends 
it very highly. He says: “It is the best all-round 
Strawberry we have yet found. The berries are large 
and a beautiful dark red in color. Gibson plants 
outyield other varieties and Gibson berries outsell 
other berries on the market. Gibson commences to 
ripen about mid-season and continues for a long sea- 
son, making a heavy yield of fruit. The blossoms are 
perfect and it makes a very good pollenizer for pis- 
tillate varieties. The fruit-stems are large and strong 
and the dark green foliage is ample protection for the 
blossoms and fruit.’’ It is recommended as a good 
variety to plant with Sample, as are also Big Joe, 
First Quality, and Magic Gem. Our plants are nice 
and, while we have not a large stock, we hope to have 
enough to supply all customers. Price, $7 per 1,000. 
HUSTLER One of the very best late varie- 
* ties we have ever seen. It isa 
native of Pennsylvania. It isa vigorous grower, mak- 
ing a few large, strong plants rather than many small 
ones. The fruit averages large in size, is quite uni- 
form, and firm enough to ship to a distant market. 
The berries are a rich scarlet in color, most excellent 
in quality and altogether one of the handsomest 
berries that we know. The blossoms are imperfect 
and should be planted with some perfect-flowering 
variety. We recommend Big Joe, Ekey, Aroma, and 
Magic Gem as being especially valuable to plant with 
Hustler. With its big green cap, it is a variety that 
attracts the attention of buyers and nearly always 
sellsata premium. If growers knew how good Hustler 
is, we believe our stock would be entirely sold out be- 
fore the shipping season begins. Do not fail toinclude 
at least a few of this variety. Price, $12 per 1,000. 
Hustler Strawberries 
Fruit is above medium in size and the 
Kansas. plants are immensely productive. The 
color is a brilliant crimson clear through the berry. 
It is one of the most fragrant of Strawberries and 
the plants are free from rust and other diseases. 
Blossoms are pistillate and its season of ripening 
medium to late. It is a very fine berry for canning 
and preserving. Price, $5 per 1,000. 
. Produces a good crop 
Late Jersey Giant. ;/ very, lateetberned 
that are highly colored and almost perfectly round. It 
belongs in the class with Marshall, as producing only 
a small crop of berries, but those we do get are very 
large, very good, and very handsome. Price, 75 
cts. for 25, $1.20 for 50, $1.60 for 75, $2 for 100. 
We obtained our stock of this va- 
Lupton. riety from a prominent grower in 
New Jersey. With us the plant has made a strong, 
vigorous growth of foliage that seems to be abso- 
lutely healthy. We visited fields of Lupton in New 
Jersey last season at fruiting time and found the 
growers getting remarkably high prices. And no 
wonder, for the berries are very large, brilliant red 
in color, and have a large leafy calyx, and this makes 
them show off exceptionally well. Probably the 
strongest point about the Lupton is the fact that it 
will carry so well in good condition, and this is es- 
pecially important in these days of irregular trans- 
portation. We believe you will find Lupton profit- 
able. When needing fancy berries for distant ship- 
ping, try it. Price, $7 per 1,000. 
This is one of the most vigorous 
McALPIN. growers on our list. It will make 
a good bed of plants anywhere and on rich soil has 
to be kept thinned for best results. The berries are 
medium to large in size, brilliant scarlet in color, and 
unexcelled in quality. They are equaled in quality 
only by a few varieties, as Chesapeake, Wm. Belt, 
and Hustler. The light green of the caps and the 
bright scarlet of the berries make a pleasing contrast, 
which causes the berries to show up well in the pack- 
age. On the New York market it always brings top 
prices, selling with Chesapeake and Big Joe. After 
a heavy rain in fruiting time the McAlpin will have 
less sand and dirt than any variety we know and this 
is especially important where mulching materials 
are scarce and hard to get. Its excellent quality 
makes McAlpin a good one for the home-garden or 
local market, as well as for shipping purposes. 
Price, $6 per 1,000. 
