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W. F. ALLEN, SALISBURY, MARYLAND 



Superb. The fall-bearing berry for the home 

 garden 



For prices of all Strawberry Plants, 

 see pages 37 and 38 



taken off their hats to the Pro- 

 gressive. Mr. Harlow Rockhill, 

 of Grundy County, Iowa, is the 

 originator of this wonderful new 

 variety, and he has a right to be 

 proud of it. Under date of Sep- 

 tember 6, 191 2, he writes me as 

 follows: "Your letter of August 

 30 to hand, and I am pleased to 

 learn that the Progressive has 

 made a good impression on you. Progressive is the leader out in this country. If I were to confine 

 myself to just one variety, it would be my choice of all the varieties on earth. I have fruited it five 

 years, and am now ready to discard all single-fruiting kind. I think the rest of you will come to it later 

 on. I have about one-half acre of ground in this variety, part spring set and part set last year, and cul- 

 tivated for plants this year. First ripe berries July 14; to date have picked forty-two crates, or 684 

 quarts, with bushels of fine berries spoiling because I have no help to pick them. The quality is so good 

 that customers call for more of them. People here at home are paying me $3.00 per dozen now for plants. 

 It has long been my desire to get a good everbearer that would make so many plants they could be grown 

 as cheaply as the old kind; then everybody could soon have them, and we have it in the Progressive. I 

 don't think you would make any mistake to plant heavily, get a good bunch of pickers and market the 

 berries on them. I believe I will get $150.00 for berries, in addition to the plants, in which twice this can 

 be realized if the plants are set 18 inches in the row, or grown in hedges. Plants should have the blooms 

 cut until fall crop is wanted, then they will come by wagon-loads. It is a commercial success with me." 

 Personally, I think it is the best of the fall-bearing varieties, and I shall plant several acres of it for fruit 

 the coming season. 



SUPERB. Harlow Rockhill, of Iowa, the originator of the Progressive, and Samuel Cooper, of New 

 York, the originator of the Superb, the two best fall-bearing Strawberries to date, have done more to bene- 

 fit humanity, in bringing out new fruits than some so-called wizards who claim to "create" this, that and 

 the other, practically none of which, so far as I have been able to find out, has much, if any, value. Mr. 



Rockhill and Mr. Cooper, although they have 

 not been lauded for their wonderful creations 

 through the city-edited magazines, have been 

 steadily at work for a number of years, in order 

 that we may have Strawberries all the year 

 round until freezing weather. It is only within 

 the last two or three years that a really 

 good, reliable, fall-bearing Strawberry has 

 been an actual fact, although they have been 

 talked of to some extent for a number of years. 

 The Superb is well named, and is the best of 

 Mr. Cooper's productions; planted in early 

 spring, with blossoms kept off until mid- 

 season and until about four weeks before you 

 want ripe fruit, you can get a crop the same 

 Teams hauling Allen's catalogues season you plant; the spring following you 



