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vigor of plants, a with tlie added advantage of 
being earlier and ripening its fruit in a shorter 
season, thereby enabling the grower to get his 
crop off before the older varieties invade the 
market. This statement is corroborated by Mr. 
Irving Jones, who has been acquainted with 
the Climax from the first and who saw the Vir¬ 
ginia growing the past season. Those who buy 
plants this year will make no mistake. 
“The New Home.” —In my 1905 catalogue 
I described the New Home as follows: 
“As late and large as Gandy, fruit a bright red color 
that does not lose its lustre and turn dark after being 
picked a long time; uniform large size and the best 
shipping and keeping berry grown. Hoffman not ex¬ 
cepted; vigorous grower and unlike Gandy, will produce 
a large crop on either high or low land: the fruit is so 
firm, and keeping quality so excellent it does not need 
to be picked oftener than three times a week, when it 
will usually make 1,000 quarts or more per acre at each 
picking during the height of the season. Pickers are 
always anxious to pick these berries and several have 
told me they could pick forty quarts or more pF r hour, 
and one man declared that he picked twenty quarts in 1 
twenty minutes. 
Since writing the above I have harvested an- 
other crop of this berry, I grow more of it than 
all other varieties combined because it pays me 
best. I have shipped it this year by the car 
load and it invari¬ 
ably brought as 
aud usually 
a cent or two more 
per quart than 
Gandy, not onco 
lias it brought 
loss. The greater 
of my patches 
which I pick- 
fruit the past 
season was an old 
that had not 
ved a pound 
manure or fer- 
izer since pick- 
g the last crop 
and only very or¬ 
dinary cultiva¬ 
tion. Notw i t li- 
standing this wo 
loaded car after 
car of large, regu¬ 
larly and evenly 
berries al- 
every one be¬ 
ing as uniform as 
made in mould 
presenting the 
est show in 
he crates of any 
berries that I ever 
bandied. I have 
had reproduced a 
letter received 
from Conant & 
Bean of Boston, 
just as ["we were 
winding^ up the 
Excelsior and starting in with the New Home. 
The letter speaks for itself. The bulk of, the 
crop sold for 10 cents to 14 cents. I have made a 
considerable reduction'in the price of New Home 
CONANT & BEAN. 
FOREIGN AND DOME 
Fruit and Produce. 
(5 FANEUIL NALL MARKET 
Mr. W. P. Allen, 
Salisbury, Md. 
Dear Sir,- As wired, 74 oratea of Excelsiors sold at 7 oants 3 cratos 
of New Homes at,14 oents, 2 orates of your father Is at 10 cents. We 
are glad to see you get to shipping the new berry, as we think they 
will do well every doy. They were a. little green today., but no doubt 
this will be improved upon after a day or two. Our market la in good 
6hape on good stock, and we think will oontinue so. Wa oertalnly hops 
we shall be able to show you some good prices on .your best stook• 
Very truly yours, 
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