Clubbing Rates* 
Get your neighbors to join you and stnd me a club order. For a club order 
amounting to 3,000 plan s or over, I will allow you 5 per cent. 
5,000 10 
10,000 “ *• *• •• 15 “ 
20,000 “ * “ ‘ “ 20 
20 per cent, is the largtst commission I can allow under any circumstances, 
and the commissions cannot be allowed unless the order amounts to at least the 
number of plants above named. 
\ Certificate of nursery Inspection no. m. 
> TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN : 
r This ts to Certify, That on the 2d day of Aug., 1900, we examined the nursery stock 
? of W. F. Allen, growing in his nurseries at Salisbury, County of Wicomico, State of Mary- 
} land, in accordance with the laws of Maryland, 1898, Chapter 289, Section 58, and that said 
? nurseries and premises are apparently free, so far as can be determined by inspection 
.*■ from the San Jose Scale, Peach Yellows, Pear Blight, and other dangerously injurious in- 
3 sect pests aod plant diseases. This certificate is invalid after August 1 st, *1901, and does 
: not include nursery stock not grown within this state, unless such stock is previously cov- 
3 ered by certificate and accepted by the State Entomologist and State Pathologist. 
| Willis G. Johnson, State Entomologist. 
3 College Park, Md., Aug. 2,1C00. Chas. O. Townsend, State Pathologist. 
Dewberries. 
I have now been growing dewberries for a number of years, and must can¬ 
didly confess that I have found it year in and year out one of the most profita 
ble crops that I have ever grown. It has never failed to give me a profitable 
crop of fruit. This is more than I can say of any other crop that I grow; com¬ 
ing in as they do immediately after strawberries, and before blackberries of 
such yarieties as] Early Harvest and Wilson, being very sweet and large, 
they will always command a ready market at paying prices. I now have 
in oyer GO acres to fruit next year, which, with a fair crop, will make a 
carload a day throughout the season, with something over during the big 
pickings. I grow these for fruit, and not for plants, but incidentally, in 
growing so many for fruit it is an easy matter to supply quite a great many 
very fine plants, and we can do this cheaper than the growers who grow 
them for plants only at $6.00 or $8.00 per M. Our stock of plants this spring 
will consist of three or four hundred thousand, and will be extra fine, as 
our growth is unusually strong and healthy, notwitwstanding our dry sum¬ 
mer; and right here^is one of its great advantages; the drought affects it less 
than any other small fruit we grow I would advise my patrons everywhere 
to plant a liberal supply of dewberries, as there is not one market in fifty that 
is well supplied with this delicious fruit. It comes into bearing as quickly 
as strawberries, producing a full crop the first year, and with only a reason¬ 
able amount of care, will stand for five, ten, fifteen or even twenty years. It 
can be planted any time during the winter when the ground is not frozen, 
and, if planting is delayed until spring they should be planted just as early as 
the ground can be worked owing to the fact that they start to grow very early 
and if planting is delayed until late in the spring the young shoots get broken 
off which makes them backward in getting started again. Dewberry plants 
can be shipped safely by freight anywhere in the United States if ordered early. 
For prices and varieties see last cover page. 
