W. F. ALLEN’S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 
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HUMMER. 
Hummer. —My attention was brought to 
this new berry by a customer in Michigan, Mr. 
John Kolvoord. He writes as follows: 
“Kalamazoo County, Michigan, January 21, 1904. 
W. F. Allen, Dear Sir:—On my grounds is a new 
strawberry that is a “Hummer”. Understand me while 
I am not its originator, it has been grown for several 
years by a man who lived about ten miles from here. He 
always refused to sell plants, notwithstanding as high as 
$2.00 each were offered for them, but two or three years 
ago he sold some by mistake for Sharpless. After finding 
it out he tried to induce the buyer to take up the plants; 
the buyer mistrusted what he had received and said he 
thought those would do. We growers have not been able 
to compete with said berry in the Battle Creek market. 
One of the merchants had its exclusive sale and shipped 
it as a fancy berry to Kalamazoo, Jackson, Lansing, etc. 
The original owner has sold out and moved to the West. 
I know of but one besides myself who has this variety. He 
is an old man from whom I got my plants. I do not believe 
any introducer has it; It is my opinion that it is an Eng¬ 
lish berry, because the man above alluded to is an Eng¬ 
lishman. The originator (?) being out of the field and out 
of the business, I reel at liberty to let you have same of 
the plants. Yours truly, John Kolyoord. 
It followed that in the spring of 1904 I re¬ 
ceived 500 plants from Mr. Kolyoord, of this 
variety. It was late when the plants came, 
and being very dry we did not get a big 
growth, notwithstanding the plants he sent were 
as fine as I ever saw. From the 500, I made 
something like 3,000 plants. These were plant¬ 
ed last spring and have resulted in one of the 
most beautiful blocks in my field and have 
made close to 100,000 plants. The plants are 
very large and healthy and give promise of a 
large crop of very fine fruit A few specimens 
were picked from the young plants which were 
very satisfactory. I shall plant quite largely 
of this variety as I feel that it is going to be 
one of the good ones, and as I have put the- 
price quite low I think no one would make a mis¬ 
take in giving it a trial. I think I can truth¬ 
fully say that out of 100 varieties, there is 
none that make larger plants or a more beauti- • 
ful appearance in the bed, and it is seldom that 
growers have an opportunity to buy so promis¬ 
ing a new variety at so low a price the first 
time offered. Do not fail to includo this in. 
your order. 
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A Dear Sir:—the plants arrived in fine condition, and 
3 am very much pleased with them; they are fine plants 
1 and I hope to have something nice when they get 
j started. Yours, Mrs. H. J. Holmes. 
Wild Wonder. —Originated and introduced* 
by John Shank, of Illinois. The superlatives- 
claimed for this berry would almost exhaust 
the dictionary, there are entirely too many to- 
be repeated ; among others claimed are that it 
is such a rampant grower that it will kill out 
blue grass, white clover and other grasses. It 
makes an abundance of runners and large quan¬ 
tities of rather small, though long rooted 
plants; I notice some rust, but probably not 
enough to do it much harm. I have not fruit¬ 
ed this berry but have a small stock of very 
nice plants. It is claimed that this variety- 
will grow wild and produce a crop of berries.- 
A regular lazy man’s berry. 
