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



THREE W'S.— Three W's originated with W. W. 

 Wallace & Sons, of Roanoke Co.. 

 Tenn. Three ff'i is a chance seedling found in 1001 

 growing wild on right-of-way of the railway. The 

 first fifteen plants which were found were transplanted 

 into a garden and produced 600 plants the first year. 

 In 1902 the original fifteen plants produced one quart 

 of berries to the plant and the 600 plants produced 

 25,000 plants. In 1904 the Three W's won highest 

 prize at the World's Fair and made a record for keep- 

 ing ten days. In 1905 it stood the freezing of April 

 15th and 16th and made a big crop of large red ber- 

 ries, while other standard varieties made about 25 per 

 cent, of a crop. This berry is a chance seedling and 

 possesses many points of excellence. The foliage is 

 beautiful, clean and healthy, dark green in color, and 

 very attractive. I consider it a promising variety. 

 Fruit is uniformly large, fine quality and very pro- 

 ductive, covering a long season from medium early to 

 late. It is quite firm and has a wonderful keeping 

 quality. Berries picked Monday and shipped 500 

 miles to the St. Louis Exposition were placed on plates 

 Wednesday morning. Late Friday evening out of 11 

 plants only seven berries could be found that were not 

 in good condition. Part of these berries were on exhi- 

 bition until the following Thursday. The past season 

 has been quite dry here, but notwithstanding this the 

 Three W's have made an excellent bed at least two 

 feet across. The plants are very large and stalky and 

 look as though they could bear an enormous crop. Mr. 

 Wallace claims that he has a trade-mark on the name 

 Three W's and has been trying to collect royalty from 

 all who are selling plants. I wish to say that I knew 

 nothing of this until after I had the plants growing. 

 and my plants were received from a reliable grower 

 in New York State, without any restrictions of any 



kind whatever. Quite a number have written me that 

 they had received threatening letters from Mr. Wal- 

 lace that they must either not sell the plants of this 

 variety or pay him the royalty. I will simply say 

 that if Mr. Wallace will investigate the matter he will 

 see that there has never been, and is not now, no law pro- 

 hibiting the sale of your own products which are pro- 

 duced and multiplied by nature. There have been 

 several such cases tried out and the verdict has always 

 been that you could not trade-mark, copyright or pat- 

 ent anything that was produced by nature and not 

 manufactured by man. 



We have an excellent stock of plants and we are 

 offering them this season at the very low price of 

 .«3.50 per M. or $3.00 per M. in lots of 5,000 or more. 

 We shall be pleased to have orders from any one who 

 wishes to plant Three W's. 



& AS USUAL. 



<$► Keokuk Co., Iowa, April 22, 1908. 



fk W. F. Allen. Salisbury. Md. 



* Dear Sir— I received the strawberry plants In 

 3s fine condition. Thanking you for sending me 



* such fine plants, I remain, 



^ Yours very truly, C. C. STUBBS. 



* A WARM RECEPTION IN A COLD 



* COUNTRY. 



% Kennebec Co.. Maine, May 9, 1908. 



T W. F. Allen, Salisbury. Md. 



¥ Dear Sir— We received the strawberry plant* 

 in good conditon. Thanks. Yours truly, 



WALTER H. COOPER. 



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