Nineteen Hundred and Seven, 
| NOTHER YEAR has passed, and now, for the twenty-sec- 
- /\ _ ond time, I am asking for your patronage. Twenty-two 
years ago, then a boy of 18 years, I sent out my first price 
list, a small four page folder. This brought a few orders 
amounting to perhaps three or four hundred dollars. The 
next year this was doubled. I sent out only good plants 
and full count. This pleased my customers, they told their 
1 1|§P t friends, who also became customers, and through liberal 
* nrr '" rT and careful advertising, other new customers in other 
sections where I had not sold plants before were added, and finally, their 
friends, and in this way customers have been added from year to year 
until the word ALLEN has beceme a household word with nearly every 
strawberry grower on the North American Continent. 
In Strawberry Plants and Dewberry Tips, | LEAD the world. Ask 
the strawberry growers of your acquaintance if it isn’t so. This has been 
made possible only by serving my customers with the best, and treating 
them as my friends, which they are, and they nearly always come back 
when in need of anything in my line. Moreover, my customers tell their 
friends that by dealing with ALLEN they will get a square deal. I 
know that hundreds of them have done this and I appreciate it very 
much. The best is none too good for my customers, who are my friends. 
Will you not become one of them ? If you believe the plants you plant 
cut any figure in the results, if you think the best is the cheapest in the 
end, and if you want to be sure of getting the variety you buy, in the 
condition to make the most for yourself, I ask you to investigate the 
plants I grow. 
I don’t claim to sell you plants cheaper than anybody else. I am 
not competing with the man whose stock has nothing but cheapness to 
recommend it, and it is not to your interest to buy that kind. My claim 
is that I am producing the best, strongest, most vigorous and most pro¬ 
lific plants that can be grown in a good favored strawberry climate, and 
that I am selling them at a reasonable price. 
Yours faithfully, 
W. F„ ALLEN, Salisbury, Maryland. 
