ALLEN'S STRAWBEKRY CATALOGUE. 



Makes Poor Land Rich. Makes Good Land Jlore Productive— Enriching the 

 Soil Even when the Crop is Cut off. 



Green crops plowed under are one of the best and cheapest ways of improving 

 the soil. For. this purpose the Cow pea has no superior, especially lor medium 

 or light soil. They should be town in the month of May at the rate of H bush- 

 els to the acre, and plowed under as soon as they have attained their full growth 

 While this crop is very largely grown wherever known, with the results 

 attained from it the wonder is that it is not grown ten times as much as at pres- 

 ent. There is no surer or cheaper means of improving poor soil than by sowing 

 Cow peas. In its capacity as a nitrogen gatherer its growth largely enables the 

 farmer to dispense with the use of nitrogen or ammoniated fertilizers. Nitro- 

 gen or ammonia in commercial fertilizers is valued at fifteen cents per pound. 

 The Cow pea, to a greater extent than any other leguminous crop, has the 

 power to extract this costly nitrogen or ammonia from the atmosphere. 



RAMS HORN — This is a black eyed pea but is larger and much more vigor- 

 ous and ranker grower than the peas generally known as Southern Black eye. 

 It takes its name from the peculiar shape of its pods, being crooked like a horn. 

 This I consider the best variety grown, being of thu very earliest to mature; a 

 rank luxuriant grower and the most productive of all. 



Price, |3.25 per Bag of 2* bushels; 10 Bags of 2* bushels each, $30.00. 



SOUTHERN WHIPPORWILL— This is a rank luxuriant grower and a very 

 popular variety. The peas are a speckeled brown. This variety makes as much 

 foliage but does not mature so early as the Rams Horn, and will not produce 

 quite as many shelled peas, although it is quite productive. 



PRICE, $3.75 per Bag of 2£ bushels. 



BLACK COW PEA — This is very much the same as Rams Horn, except 

 that the peas are jet black and the pods are straight. Habit of growth about 

 the same. 



PRICE, £3.00 per Bag, of 2* bushels. 



MIXED STOCK— I have about 45 bags of mixed stock. These are about 95 

 per cent. Black and about 5 per cent. Black eye. For green crops to plow in, or 

 for hay or pastures or any purpose where seed is not to be saved, this stock is as 

 good as any. 



PRICE, $2.50 per Bag of 2} bushels. 



These peas are all of my own growning and are hand picked, recleaned with 

 seed fan, therefore being entirely free from hulls or trash of any kind and no 

 cracked or broken peas. All our peas are put up in seed bags containing 2£ 

 bushels each. Please order by the bag and not by the bushel as we sell only by 

 the bay and do not break psckages. Address all orders etc. to 



W. F. ALLEN, Jr. 



j No. 61. Certificate of Nursery Inspection. 



i To Whom it Hay Concern: l 



§ This is to certify that on the 8th day of September, 1898, we examined I 



j the nursery stock of W. F. Allen, Jr., consisting of Dewberries, Raspber- } 



} ries, and Strawberry plants, growing in his nurseries at Salisbury, County r 



£ of Wicomico, State of Maryland, in accordance with the laws of Mary- £ 



C land, 1898, Chapter 289, Section 58, and that stid nurseries and premises Z 



t. are apparently free, so far as can be determined by inspection, from San I 



I Jose Scale, Peach Yellows, Pear Blight, and other dangerously injurious j 



z insect pests and plant diseases. ? 



I Willis G. JohnsOn, Chas. O. Townsend, i 



I State Entomologist. State Pathologist. ) 



I College Park, Md. , September 10, 1898. \ 



