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ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE. 



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HALLS FAVORITE— This 



berry was originated about five 

 or six years ago by John W. 

 Hali of Somerset county, Md., 

 who describes it as follows : 

 "I have fruited Hall's Favorite 

 four years on different soils 

 and it does well on them all. 

 I have been in the fruit busi- 

 ness for twenty- five years and 

 during that time I have had 

 numbers of yarieties of straw- 

 berries but the Hall's Favorite 

 is the strongest grower of any 

 variety I have grown or seen 

 grown. It bears a large crop 

 of fine berries that run large 

 and uniform in size. It is firm 

 and a good shipper. It sold in 

 the New York market the past 

 season for twenty cents when 

 other kinds were bringing nine 

 and ten cents per quart. It 

 was considered by good judges 

 to be the best strawberry ever 

 grown. Berry growers for 

 some time have been wanting 

 a better berry than Bubach — 

 we have it in the Hall's Favor- 

 ite. I tripens a little earlier 



ll/^y'^D St than Bubach > runs lar S er m 



«i size tlirough the season, it is 



also more productive and a 



better carrier." 



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that it is more productive than 



the Bubach, it is certainly very large and fine colored. It is better quality than 



Bubach by far, and about as good a carrier. It makes a healthy vigorous growth 



and as yet has not rusted with me. 



ARNOUT'S iriPROVED PARKER EARLE— "Is without doubt the best 

 berry in existence. Not only for its enormous productiveness alone, but on ac- 

 count of its beauty and adaptability to all soils, and its foliage enduring the dry 

 hot weather, which qualities are very rare among strawberries. The plant is a 

 strong robust grower, with a perfect blossom, and an enormous yielder of large, 

 slightly flattened, bright crimson berries, with short neck, the calyx turning 

 back from the berry, giving it a fine appearance. The flavor is of the best. It 

 ripens evenly and is a good shipper. They are free to make runners the first sea- 

 son, which is very essential to berry growers, and have stood a temperature of 

 fourteen degrees below zero without protection, never freezing out They 

 require rich soil, as they set so many berries. The average yield is about twelve 

 thousand quarts per acre; but on very rich soil it is common to pick at the rate 

 of fifteen thousand quarts per acre They ripen about with Crescent, are term- 

 ed mid-season, and continue to bear about three weeks." — Originator. 



