W. F. ALLEN’S PLANT AND SEED CATALOGUE. 
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Pride of Cumberland.— Like Gandy, this 
berry will carry from Florida to Boston, or 
from Louisiana to Chicago, and arrive fresh 
and firm. It is brilliant red in color, and 
holds its lustre and freshness longer than most 
other varieties. It thrives on any soil, but 
owing to its immense crop, better results are 
obtained by putting it in rich springy land. 
The fruit is equal to the Gandy in every re¬ 
spect and better in quality. Ripens one week 
earlier than Gandy. The past season I shipped 
Pride of Cumberland to Boston on Saturday, 
which were de¬ 
layed and didn’t 
arrive in market 
until the follow¬ 
ing Tuesday. 
They were repor¬ 
ted to be in per¬ 
fect condition and 
sold for 17 cent3 
per quart. This 
is one of the best 
market berries for 
distant shipment 
on the list. 
Ridgeway**— 
I grew this va¬ 
riety several .years 
ago and did not 
like it. I have 
not been growing 
it for several 
years, but having 
had n u m er o u s 
calls for it, I pro¬ 
cured stock last 
spring and now 
can supply it. The 
plant is of medium 
size and a good 
grower ; fruit is 
medium large, 
round, smooth, 
dark red and good 
quality. Othei 
growers say it suc¬ 
ceeds well and it 
is considered by many [a safe variety to plant. 
Nimrod. —Originated by Mr. Beaver, of 
Ohio, who is about seventy-five or eighty 
years old. The variety was introduced last 
spring by Mr. Matthew Crawford, of Ohio, who 
describes it as follows: 
“The Nimrod is the most beautiful berry in our collec¬ 
tion; the fruit is roundish conioal, of regular form, and 
smooth, glossy surface, brilliant red, firm and second to 
none but Beaver in flavor. The plant is of medium size 
with healthy thick foliage. It is a good berry, season me¬ 
dium.” 
Lyon. —The Ohio Experiment Station de¬ 
scribes it as follows; 
“Red flesh, moderately firm, good quality, plants rather 
slender in growth but vigorous and healthy; the berries 
of this variety were strikingly beautiful, attractive and 
distinct in form.” 
Sharpless. —Too well known to require a 
lengthy description from me. It is a great 
favorite with many people for the family gar¬ 
den. It is enough to say that I have a stock of 
very fine plants. 
Somerset Maid. —This variety was sent out 
by a Massachusetts grower under the following 
description: 
“It bears large crop on high or low land and ripens 
medium late. 1 have no doubt but what it will do equally 
as well in other localities, but to the strawberry grower 
hereabouts who have been looking fora great big fancy 
strawberry, a big cropper, a big seller, and a big money 
maker, get it; now is your chance.” 
Nettie. —This is one of Joseph H. Black’s 
seedlings. 
“A seedling of the Bubach and Yale was crossed with 
Sharpless; the best of these seedlings were again crossed 
with Gandy and among them he found the Nettie, the 
largest strawberry he ever fruited. It combines with this 
valuable quality the productivemess of Bubach and the 
vigor of plant so prominent in Sharpless. The foliage is 
exceptionally strong, vigorous and healthy, flowers imper¬ 
fect, enormously productive, berries very large bright red, 
exquisite quality, season very late.”—(Originator) 
Saunders. —This is a good reliable berry 
and has been quite a favorite with me for many 
years. I have grown many acres of it for fruit 
and find it very reliable. It has a strong scam- 
inate blossom and is one of the best to plant 
with the pistillate varieties. Fruit is large 
and a deep glossy red, does well on light soils. 
