ALLEN'S STRAWBERRY CATALOGUE. 
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BRANDYWINE. —This variety has 
'been reported upon by the experiment 
stations, written up by horticultural 
papers and talked of by fruit growers 
^everywhere until it has become as well 
known as any of the older kinds. I 
believe it will bear out the claims that 
have been made for it. The fruit and 
plant very much res^nble Gandy but 
is more productive and a better grower. 
I marketed quite a good many crates of 
Brandywine last season and they were 
very fine. Almost every crate would 
bear the mark of fancy or extra and 
always brought the highest market 
price. 
TENNESSEE PROLIFIC — Large, 
good color, productive, of good shape, 
free from rust and ranks among the 
best in the strawberry list. It is a seed¬ 
ling of Sharpless and Crescent,showing 
the parentage of both. The fruit is 
large, handsome plant, anti'as produc¬ 
tive as Haverland. 
“THE CARMI BEAUTY” —Is the 
strawberry for the farmer’s garden and 
the home market. We have no hesita¬ 
tion in pronouncing this the largest 
berry up to * date. Its fine size and 
and beautiful appearance attract the 
attention of the best buyers. 
It is of the highest flavor, satisfy¬ 
ing the most fastidious taste. 
It is the earliest of the medium 
early varieties—a few days earlier than 
the Crescent. 
It is a large, deep rooted plant, with an abundant, healthy, dark green foli¬ 
age, which gives it the capacity to bear large crops of fine sized berries. 
It w^ll stand dry weather longer than any other kind on my place, and for 
a large berry, will bear more to the hill than any other variety. 
It is a bright red color, and has a beautiful shape. 
The Carmi Beauty is a Pistillate, and can be Pollenized with any of the 
early or medium early Staminant varieties.”—Originator. 
BLONDE —This variety although one of the best late varieties with me 
seems to have been almost totally ignored by the strawberry public. I have 
now fruited the Blonde for the third time and consider it one of the very best 
of late varieties especially for light land. I was so well pleased with it in 1899, 
that in Spring of 1900 I planted several acres of it for fruit and am very glad 
that I did for last summer it again gave us a very large crop of handsome large 
fruit. 
