COMPLIMENTS FROM FRIENDS OF ALLENS 



January, 1972 



Dear Friends (and I mean friends), / have just noticed that you and I have something in 

 common! You have sold berries for 87 years and I am 87 years old. Fascinating? I've had 

 over 3,000 visitors to come and look at my easy way of gardening and I rave to them about 

 you and Fairfax. A Happy 1972 to you! 



Ruth Stout 



West Redding, Connecticut 



January, 1972 



I have purchased 25 to 50 plants yearly from you for the last 75 years or more. I pinch the 

 bloom off the first year and let the plants bear two seasons and then dispose of them. I have 

 always had excellent yields. One year we picked 175 quarts! Catskill has been our best yielder. 



Charles Judy 

 Troutville, Virginia 



February, 1972 



I have been using your plants for over 30 years and have had very good success. I find that 

 Catskill does as well in my ground as any and I have tried many of your varieties. Of late 

 years, I have set out 100 plants each year and 1971 was one of my better years as we picked 

 276 quarts and sold $98.00 worth and had plenty for our own use. 



Henry C. Patt 



East Bridgewater, Massachusetts 



February, 1972 



We've always had good success with your plants and the berries are delightful. Thank you 



very kindly. 



Mrs. A. E. Haswell 

 Elyria, Ohio 



February, 1972 I recently called about ordering some strawberry plants. The woman I spoke 

 to was very pleasant. We have been doing business with Aliens for quite some time. We bought 

 a swimming pool and filter one summer with the money I made selling Allen Jerseybelle berries. 

 In that particular year, we picked over 350 quarts. They are just the best holding and best sell- 

 ing strawberries we have ever come across. We are very pleased and doing business with Aliens 

 is a pleasure. 



Mrs. A. J. Payne, Jr. 



Forked River, New Jersey 

 March, 1972 



If I had my choice of the 25 free plants for names, I would like to try "Surecrop" to see how 

 they compare with Catskill. I have never found a variety of strawberry that can even come 

 close to doing the job that Catskill does for me here in northwest Missouri. Your plants are 

 the best I have ever received from any nursery. 



Clyde W. McGuire 

 Oregon, Missouri 



June, 1972 



Thank you kindly for your card and copy of letter dated May 24 to myself and Mrs. Borsig. It 

 was rather pleasant to receive this information and the manner in which it was written. I do not 

 recall encountering this type of consideration lately. Do not stop or give it a computerized 

 flavor. I would like to feel that I am an Allen man and with this, feel a relation. 



Francis A. Harrling 

 New York, New York 



Marc/7, 1972 



I have set out between 150 and 1,200 plants for the last 40 years. They were mostly Allen 



plants. Plants have always been nice. Last year I picked 235 quarts from 100 Surecrop and 



50 Redchief plants. 



E. K. Garner 

 Columbus, Ohio 



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