

Typical Fairfax Berries— DEE-licious 



Strawberry Gardens Yield 

 Pleasure and Profit 



Every good garden that will grow vegetable 

 crops should have a few rows of strawberries for 

 home use. The introduction of higher quality 

 varieties like Fairfax, Dorsett, Narcissa, and 

 Southland (for the South) , will increase your en- 

 joyment of them fresh off the vines, or at meal 

 time. You will be proud to show them to and 

 share them with your friends. A small amount 

 of expense and effort on a small garden plot of 

 strawberries will be repaid in pleasure and profit 

 many times. 200 plants will make a nice small 

 garden ; 500 a fine large garden. 



Berry Garden Dividends 



1. Plenty of luscious "berries over a long sea- 

 son, right fresh off the vines. 



2. All you want fbr table use, "sugared down/' 

 or otherwise. 



3. Strawberry shortcake, strawberry ice cream, 

 cool drinks from strawberry juices — and other 

 ways. 



4. Berries to can and preserve for winter use. 



5. Enough to share with your friends. 



6. Ready money from the salable surplus. 



7. With the Everbearers, berries for use all 

 through the late summer and fall. 



8. As suggested above, the new, high quality 

 berries, Dorsett and Fairfax, will add a touch of 

 royal flavor with which you will be delighted. 



"From 50 plants each of your Dorsett and Fair- 

 fax set in spring 1934 I have picked up until today 

 460 quarts of berries and Fairfax has several 

 shortcakes left. The plants made a wide, solid 

 bed, but not so close. Tried to leave three to five 

 plants per square foot. They sold readily from 

 15^ to 114 per quart while peddlers were offering- 

 berries from 8<* to 1M^ From the 100 plants we 

 have sold $47.62 worth of berries and have used 

 160 quarts ourselves." — Mr. H. R. Greene, Middle- 

 sex Co., N. J. 



Allen's Plants or Your Own? 



By using your own you save the cost of plants 

 and transportation but you lose in other ways. 



1. The expense of digging and cleaning your 

 own plants. With inexperienced help and with 

 soil heavy and hard this is quite a task. 



2. Every row you dig decreases your own crop. 

 With fair prices expected or thin rows to dig 

 from, this loss counts up fast. 



3. The invigorating effects that often come 

 from a change of soil and climate. There is often 

 a marked gain. 



4. The convenience of having plants^ right at 

 hand when you want them. 



T>. The beneficial results of early planting are 



well known. You can take advantage of the first 

 "open spell" (in the north) by setting Allen's 

 plants instead of digging your own. 



C>. Well cleaned plants, with evenly bunched 

 straightened roots making setting easier, quicker 

 and better. 



7. Allen's plants are grown for plant purposes 

 in a light sandy loam soil. Many fine strawberry 

 beds are grown on heavy soil but the plants 

 would be short rooted and knotty if dug from, 

 such soils. There would be less resistance to 

 drought and mechanical disturbances. Many of> 

 our customers find that with Allen's plants they 

 get finer stock at a lower cost that will give 

 better results than their own. 



Mr. Aaron Hirsch, Wayne Co., Ohio, writes, 

 "My rows are somewhat broken on account of 

 early drought. We have good soil and market. 

 Your question 'Allen's Plants or My Own?' made 

 me think. I believe it will pay me to buy plants 

 for my own setting." 



