W. F. Allen's Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 



HIGHLAND.— Planted here 

 for the first 

 time last spring. Plants received 

 from M. Crawford, the originator. 

 It la a chance seedling found by 

 T. B. Carlisle, of Mahoning Co.. 

 Ohio. Mr. Carlisle has tested it 

 for ten years and finds it his best 

 money-maker. It makes large, 

 healthy plants and is more produc- 

 tive than any other variety in the 

 collection at the Worcester Experi- 

 ment Station. The fruit is of 

 good size, fine in color and form, 

 of fairly good quality and moder- 

 ately productive. It has been 

 carefully tested at the Ohio Agrl- 

 eoltnral Experiment Station, and 

 the following are some of the re 

 ports sent out by that institution : 



1905 Report.— Highland was the 

 meat prolific variety in our collec- 

 tion. It Is very promising and 

 desirable, and especially for the 

 grower who is situated near a 

 good borne market. 



1906 Report.— Highland for the 

 third season stands in the front 

 rank of varieties remarkable for 

 prolificacy, this season again snr- 

 pmaatng all others in the quantity 

 of fruit produced. It is as firm 

 as Batmen, and has always re- 

 minded the writer of Crescent. If 

 that old and remarkably prolific 

 variety could be imagined •'over- 

 grown" both in plant and fruit. 



1907 Report.— During the four 

 years Highland has been upon the 

 Station grounds it has not failed 

 to give very prolific crops. It 

 terras strong and persistent in all 

 Its admirable points. A quart- 

 maker of bright, handsome berries 

 of very acceptable quality. 



We have not fruited this variety 

 yet, but the plant growth pleases 

 me very much. It makes a very 



strong, healthy plant with dark 

 green foliage, a plant that gives 



von the impression that it is ready- 

 for business. 



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LADY THOMSON.-Tbis is 



a great 

 Southern berry and is grown by 

 the thousand acres in the great 

 strawberry sections of North Caro- 

 lina, where fully nine-tenths of 

 the acreage is Lady Thomson, and 

 so far they have found nothing 

 that will quite equal it. It makes 

 Btrang, healthy plants that pro- 

 duce large crops of medium large, 

 firm berries. This variety is espe- 

 cially adapted to the South, but Is 

 grown to some extent in other sec- 

 tions. It is a reliable variety for 

 California, Bern:;ida Islands. Caba 

 and other tropical and semi-tropi- 

 cal sections. 



LIVINGSTON.- T h i s i s a 

 seedling of 

 the Warfield. and like that variety 

 makes plenty of medium size plants 

 that are wonderful for health. 

 vigor and productiveness. The 

 berries are larier than the War- 

 field, but not as firm. It colors all 

 over, has a slight neck, and la 

 easy picked. The berries are bright 

 red inside and out. and have a 

 rich, delicious flavor. It rora- 

 tnences to ripen early and contin- 

 ues through a lon^ season. 



MITCHELLS EARLY.- 

 Originated by Mr. Mitchell, of Ar- 

 kansas. It i* tor) well known to 

 need any extended de cription here. 

 If grown on ;:ood S"il it must be 

 kept thin or it will go to much to 

 vines. For eating from the vines 

 there is probably none better, and 

 until the Excelsior came it was 

 the leading early market berry in 

 this section as we]] as for home 

 use. A few growers that I know 

 of held on to it for a number of 

 years after the advent of the Ex- 

 celsior, and claimed that it still 

 paid them better than that variety. 



