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ALLEN'S STRAAVBERRY CATALOGUE. 



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BRUNETTE— The Brunette is a delightful berry. I have Iruited it now 

 for three years and am greatlv taken with it. In color it is a deep rich red like 

 port wine, not only all over the surface but all the way through, and when you 

 break one in two the fragments of the torn tissues sparkle in the sunlight like 

 splinters of ruby crystals. It is a shapely berry, too, of uniform dome-like out- 

 line. If a few Brunette berries were mingled promiscously with a large number 

 made up of various other kinds, the Brunette could readily be picked out, their 

 beautiful dark-red color and symmetrical outline distinguishing thetn from the 

 rest. They are quite firm berries and I would think would stand shipping well. 

 I have had no experience as to the latter fact, however, for my Brunettes were 

 too good to sell, and just right to use at home or to give to one's best friends. 



PATRICK — "-Most of our extra early varieties have come from South, and 

 have not proved especially profitable when grown at the north. Here is a 

 northern berry that promises to be for this section what Mitchel's Early is for 

 the south. The plant is splendid in growth and foliage and wonderfully vigor- 

 ous, making runners as freely as Brandy wine. The berry is of medium size 

 about the shape and color of Ha verland of average quantity, and firm, with 

 glossy surface well protected by prominent seeds. It is more productive than 

 Redar Wood with me, and four or five times as profitable as Mitchel or Van 

 Deman." — Introducer's description. Has not fruited here. 



