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Best Varieties to Plant for Profit 



YOUR success in growing Strawberries will depend very largely on the 

 varieties you select. You will find the variety descriptions in this Berry 

 Book accurate and dependable. Some of the varieties we have given 

 high praise. You will find it well merited. Other varieties which are good 

 in many ways, but have some weaknesses, you will find described just as we 

 have found them with their weaknesses mentioned. Our list of around 30 

 varieties has been selected from several hundred commercial varieties grown, 

 and all our varieties are good. But we feel that there are several outstand- 

 ing varieties that we can recommend so strongly that you need have no 

 hesitation in making your selection. 



For the man who wants great quantities of large, fancy berries 

 of fine appearance and quality for home market or nearby ship- 

 ment, we unhesitatingly recommend PREMIEIR for Early, BIG 

 JOE for Mid-Season, and CHESAPEAKE, WM. BELT, or BIG 

 LATE for Late. Read what we say of these varieties and get 

 your order in early. You cannot go wrong with any of them. 



Other varieties of proven worth, favorably known and grown by many- 

 good strawberry growers, are Gibson, Sample, Haverland, Lupton, Gandy, 

 Sen. Dunlap, Cooper. 



We are offering this season several new varieties. Beauty, and Fruit- 

 land seem to be the most promising of these. 



Klondyke, Missionary and Aroma are the great southern, long distance 

 shipping berries. Aroma is a fine late variety, north or south. 



Champion and Mastodon are the best Everbearers — ^Champion for the 

 home, and Mastodon commercially. 



A Wonder Stand. 



York Co., Pa., April 3, 1929. — Last spring I purchased from you six different varieties of 

 strawberry p'ants as fo"ows: Premier, Big Joe, Chesapeake, Wm. Belt and Everbearing Cham- 

 pion and Mastodon. Wish you could see my patches. I have given them good attention and 

 surely do have a wonder stand. The past years I have grown Premier and Wm. Belt very suc- 

 cessfully, the others it wi"' be my first tryout this year. — JOHN M. RUDISELL. 



Big Joe Finest They Ever Saw. 



Dawson Co., Neb., March 12, 1929. — Will say that I received some Big Joe strawberry plants 

 from you fo'ks several vears ago and we thought they were the finest we ever saw. Hope these 

 Everbearing wi" be Uke that too. — AMOS KAUFFMAN. 



When Needing Plants, Will Rely On Allen's. 



Windham Co., Conn., May 7, 1929. — I received the 400 Aroma and 400 Mastodon plants April 

 29th all O. K. You have certainly satisfied my mind very much with the nice plants as I regard 

 you as a reliable house on strawberry plants. When I am in the market for plants I shall re'y on. 

 you. Also will recommend your house as I have in the past a number of times when my name 

 was not used. I would like to extend my hand in a handshake, but since I cannot I wish to thank 

 you very much.— BYRON H. BILLINGLY. 



Never Saw Anything to Equal Allen's Mastodon. 



Oswego Co., N. Y., Nov. 12, 1929. — The 6,000 plants purchased of you last spring have done 

 finely and are looking nice. Never saw anything equal your Mastodons. They are covered now 

 with blossoms and green berries and we have picked off thousands of fruit stems since they were 

 set out so they would m.ake more new plants. Will certainly want more of these, together with 

 other varieties in the spring. — H. C. FOXTON. 



