sturdy plants for your Dorsett orders 



Ifeau o^ Satisfaction ^unifif Confidence 



50th Year — Always True-to-name 



Tucker Co., W. Va. I am glad to still be with 

 you. This is the fiftieth year since I bought 

 my first plants of you. I have always found your 

 plants true to name. I have tried more than 

 fifty varieties that you have sent out, a good 

 many not adapted to our climate and soil. May 

 you be spared for many years to carry on your 

 work of disseminating good plants of good 

 varieties. Very best wishes for your success. — 

 John A. H. Swisher. 



Many Years and Always Just Fine 



Montgomery Co., Md. February 25, 1939. I 

 have bought strawberry plants from you for 

 many years, but never such a small order as this 

 year, but I am 83 years old and must taper off. 

 Your plants have always been just fine. — Mr. F. 

 F. Weston. 



Perfect Satisfaction for years 



Montcalm Co., Mich. March 3, 1939. I am 

 sending you a small order for strawberry plants. 

 Wish it were larger, but I am nearing my 85th 

 birthday and not able to do so much as I used 

 to do. But in my 60 years of growing straw- 

 berries, your plants have given me perfect satis- 

 faction which would not be true of any others. 

 I will continue to speak a good word for you. — 

 Mr. Frank Fishell. 



Did You Know? 



T\ID you know that The W. F. Allen 

 Company is the only one of the 

 dozen largest plant firms in the United 

 States that offer strawberry plants 

 only in their catalog? We are real 

 specialists. We ought to handle this 

 one product a little better than those 

 who try to handle so many different 

 things. We DO! Let us have your 

 order and we will prove it. 



35 Years 



Missoula Co., Mont. March 10, 1939. I am 

 back again for more of your Premier plants. 

 Your plants have always been very good. I 

 have been buying from you for the last thirty 

 five years. — Mr. J. C. Sain. 



Appreciates Fine Treatment 



Mercer Co., N. J. May 9th, 1939. The plants 

 came yesterday and were in very fine condition. 

 I surely do appreciate the fine treatment which 

 you accorded me. I hope that I may have the 

 good luck with them that I have had in the 

 past which I will say has been very gratifying 

 ever since I have been using Allen's plants. It 

 is a pleasure to do business with a firm that 

 will treat its customers in the manner which you 

 do. I will always be an Allen Booster. Thank 

 you for the fine courtesy shown me. Here is to 

 Allen's True to Name plants! — Mr. H. Raymond 

 Dye. 



Buying- Allen's Plants Since 1005 



Sullivan Co., N. Y. March 25, 1939. I have 

 been buying plants from you since 1905 off and 

 on, and have never received a poor shipment 

 during that time. Your catalog is looked for- 

 ward to each season as one looks for an old 

 friend. — Mr. Wm. A. Case. 



Very Good Luck For 10 Years 



Windham Co., Vt. March 1st, 1939. I always 

 like your plants and have always had very 

 good luck with them. In the last ten years I 

 have never had poor plants. — Mr. Robert G. Pratt. 



INDEX 



Pages 



Premier 4-5 



Fairfax 6-7 



Dorsett 8 



Yellows-Free Blakemore 9 



Other Early Varieties 10-11 



Catskill 12-13 



Other Midseason Varieties 14-15 



Chesapeake IG 



Other Late Varieties 17 



Everbearers Easy to Grow 18-19 



Everbearing Varieties 20-21 



Common Sense Methods 22-25 



Strawberries Pay 2G-27 



Berry Gardens Make a Hit 28-29 



Allen's Plants Will Pay You 30-31 



Strawberry Collections 32 



Picking the Winners 34 



Price list of plants for 1940 35 



Copyright, 1940, by W. F. Allen Co., Salisbury, Md. 



