Want to bet on a sure thing? Nothing you can do at such little cost will give the whole 

 family so much pleasure for so long a time as a nice strawberry garden. Try it. Order your 

 plants early and get started this spring. 



When the vines are loaded with big, juicy red berries it's fun to go right out to the patch 

 and eat your fill. Fresh berries on the table are always a delight. Canned or preserved berries 

 give an added zest to winter meals. Surplus berries can be easily sold or shared with friends, 

 because everybody likes tine strawberries. 



They're healthful, too. The berries have much food value and a high vitamin content. A 

 N. C. Dept. of Chemistry circular states, "Strawberries are equal to oranges in vitamin C content." 

 Even the work is healthy — light, clean and in the open. Both the old folks and the young can 

 help with benefit to their health and pride m what they accomplish. 



Then there is the money angle, even with a small garden plot. Not only do the berries 

 used by the family save on the food costs, but nearly always there is extra money from the 

 surplus. In fact, some folks plan for more than they can use, so as to get some of this rather 

 easy extra money. 



Fjgg money is counted on by many farmer's wives. Fine. But some can liave "berry 

 money" who do not have chickens and cannot give the every day, all-the-year-around attention 

 that chickens require. 



Everbearing gardens, with fine varieties like Mastodon, Gem and Green Mountain extend 

 the enjoyment of fresh strawberries clear through late summer and fall until long after the 

 first frosty nights. 



If you own or can rent a little plot of land — have a garden and in it have some berries. 

 Collections of leading varieties on page 32 may help you decide. 



Indiana Co., Pa., Apr. 3, 1940. Two years ago I set out 300 Catskill and last spring sold $75.00 

 worth of berries, between 600 and 700 quarts, also gave away dishpanfuls and had all we 

 could use. I like the Premier because it comes a little earlier for me, but think the Catskill is 

 a better tasting berry. — Mrs. J. W. Cunningham. 



Henrico Co., Va., April 8, 1940. The strawberry plants I bought from you were the best I 

 ever saw. Out of four hundred not a half dozen died and I never had such a quantity of 

 berries. — Mrs. L. B. Siegfried. 



Fairfield Co., Conn., Aug 31, 1940. The 

 200 plants you sent me last spring turned 

 out wonderfully well. I don't know how 

 many boxes of berries we have picked and 

 they are still bearing fruit. There is not 

 a box of strawberries to be purchased in 

 the markets and hasn't been for the past 

 four weeks and yet every few days we 

 are able to pick enough for our family. 

 This has been my first experience growing 

 berries. When I originally wrote to you 

 I told you 1 was a "greenhorn" from New 

 York having recently moved to Southport. 

 — Mr. Orson Kilborn. 



Arkansas Co., Ark., Apr. 18, 1940. We 

 think your catalog by far the best one put 

 out by any berry grower. We are grow- 

 ing lots of fine berries from plants that 

 came from you. We are sending you a 

 picture of a section of our Dorsetts (pic- 

 ture above) . Both Dorsetts and Fairfax 

 grow very large here and are easy to sell 

 at five cents per quart higher than any 

 other kind.— Mr. R. E. Slifer. 



At right. Mr. J. Q. Weart of Mercer Co., 

 N. J., is justly proud of his fine bed of 

 Chesapeake which he grew from Allen's 

 plants. He says "I have bought plants 

 off and on from you for the past 20 years. 

 They have always been good plants and 

 grow fine." 



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