ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE 





NEW YORK— This is the big fellow that won the $100.00 IN GOLD which 

 I offered in my 1897 catalogue lor 12 plants of any variety of strawberry that 

 would produce as much fruit of as large size and good quality as the Glen Mary. 

 There were a good many new varieties put in competition for this prize, but 

 none of them came any where winning it except this big fellow which I have 

 named k 'New York" in honor of the state in which it originated Martha (i. 

 Yates of Tompkins county, N Y., "an ex school teacher who prefers fruit grow- 

 ing to teaching,' ' was the lucky winner of the SUM). 00 in gold. The following is 

 her description of the berry: "The strawberry plants I Bent you to compete 

 with (lien Mary were seedlings of a Large Bubach No. 5 strawberry, circumfer- 

 ence 7{ inches, fertilized with Jessie. We always call these "The Big Herri/" 

 Every one who sees them ia astonished at their size and productiveness. We 

 always sell all of these berries at a fancy price to people who board here during 

 the summer." 



As fruited here the berries are large to very large, season of ripening me- 

 dium: color dark scarlet, changing to crimson when fully ripe; c dors all over at 



