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& ^ IMPORTANT sSr s&r 
ORDERS should be sent in jnst as early as pos¬ 
sible—it is better for you as well as the nurseryman. 
TIME OE SHIPMENT —from the time you receive 
this catalogue to May 1st. Our heaviest shipments 
are made in March and first half of April. 
GUARANTEE. — I guarantee plants ordered by 
mail or express to reach customers in good condi¬ 
tion when promptly taken from express office and 
opeued at once. 
expect to pay an additional 25 cents for the barrel, 
and if we buy two pounds of sugar for 10 cents we 
dc not expect to pay two cents more for wrapping 
it up, and if such charges were made we would not 
go back to that grocer. Not so much that we would 
care for the amount of two cents for wrapping the 
sugar or the twenty-five cents for the barrel, but 
we would not stand for the principla of paying the 
price quoted for an article and then having a lot of 
additional extra charges tacked on. and why should 
we? The principle is the same when we are charged 
AT PURCHASER’S RISK.— Plants ordered to be 
shipped by freight after March 20th will be at pur- I° r package in which our plants are packed, 
chaser’s risk. Express is always safest Ourprice includes the packing and the package. 
TRUE TO NAME.— While I use every precaution 
to have all stock true to name, and am sure that I 
am as successful in doing this as any one in the 
business, I will not be held responsible for any sum 
greater than the cost of the stock, should any prove 
otherwise than as represented. 
PACKING. — I make no charge for boxing or pack¬ 
ing at rates quoted in this catalogue. Everything 
is delivered f. o. b. trains at rates named. We do 
not charge one price for the plants and then extor¬ 
tion on our customers by charging them a big price 
on old boxes and barrels. In buying plants I have 
had very satisfactory prices quoted, and when the 
biil came there was quite a nice little profit charged 
up for packi g, boxes, etc. When we go to our 
grocer and buy a barrel of flour for $5.00 we do not 
TWENTY-FIVE’S.—All plants are tied twenty-five 
in a bundle. 
PAYMENT.—Iuv triably cash in advance. 
REMIT by Money Order, Registered Letter or 
Draft. Postage stamps for fractional part of a dol¬ 
lar accepted; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 and 15 cents pre¬ 
ferred. Foreign customejs will please send Money 
Order on Salisbury, Md. 
DO YOU KNOW of two or three persons who buy 
plants and seeds and want the best of everything? 
If so, they are the people that I should like very 
much to get acquainted with. Their names and 
address on a postal or enclosed with your order ad¬ 
dressed to W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., woold serve 
as an introduction. Will you attend to it? Now 
please don’t forget. 
Three Hundred Dollars 
for Three Dozen Strawberry Plants 
I will give a new $1 00.00 bank note to any man, to it in productiveness, size, firmness and vigor of 
woman or child who will send me 12 plants of any plant, or for any variety that equals the Virginia 
new unintroduced variety of strawberries, named or in the above named qualities and is a single day 
unnamed, that is as early as VIRGINIA and superior earlier. 
AM ADDITIONAL OFFER 
I will give a new $100.00 bank note to any per- productiveness, quality, size and color of fruit- 
son sending me 12 plants of any new unintroduced healthfulness and vigor of plant, or for any variety 
variety of strawberries, named or unnamed, that is equaling the Chesapeake in these respects and is 
as late as the CHESAPEAKE and superior to it in later in ripening. 
STILL ANOTHER OFFER 
I will give a new $100.00 banknote to any per- variety of strawberries, named or unnamed, that 
son sending me 12 plants of any new unintroduced is superior to the GOOD LUCK, all merits considered. 
the: conditions 
Any person can compete for either or all three of tiality will be shown, either in location given plants 
the prizes, but can compete for only one of the pi izes or in the awarding of prizes. The prizes will be 
with the same variety. When sending the plants awarded and paid after fruiting in June, 1908, and 
be sure to write your name and address plainly on all plants not capturing a prize will be destroyed 
this outside of the package, so that I may be sure absolutely unless I have instructions in writing to 
who it is from. State on postal which prize or the contrary from the sender. All plants should be 
prizes you wish to compete for. Make all corre- sent as early as possible after March 1st, by mail or 
spondence short and write plainly. All plants sent express, prepaid and packed in moss. Send 12 good 
will be given the same show and positively no par- plants of each variety entered and no more. 
PLAINLY^ We F, ALLEN, Salisbury, Md t 
