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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
variety has never been sold, to my knowledge, pre- and the best keeping and shipping berry grown, 
vious to this spring for less than $4 or $5 per 100. Hoffman not excepted; vigorous growth and, unlike 
I am now offering them at $5 per 1,000 and $20 per Gandy, will produce a large crop on either high or 
The fruit is so firm and the keeping 
5.000 
NEW HOME. 
This variety was introduced by 
me in the spring of 1205. I have been growing the 
variety for seven or eight years, and have grown it 
more largely than any other sort, because it paid ■ , - -. , , T , 
me better. ' It is not a new and untried variety but F e , alwa J s Fjxious to P-<* these berries, and I ha 
has been handled in large quantities. I have shipped had good pickers that would pick forty quarts of 
^ i * .. . . NfiW Hnme hp.rnps in n.n nmir* snmfi fhov no.r\ 
low land. 
quality so excellent, it does not require picking 
oftener than three times a week, when it will usually 
make 1,000 quarts or more per acre at a single 
picking during the height of the season. Pickers 
it in carload lots to Boston market, where it invari¬ 
ably brought a cent or two more per quart than the 
Gandy and other fancy berries. In the summer of 
1905, just as I was finishing up my Excelsior and 
started in with the New Home, I received the fol¬ 
lowing letter, which speaks for itself. I will say 
that in 1905 I had a very large crop, almost all of 
which sold for 10 to 14 cents per quart: 
CflNAKT & BEAN. 
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC 
Fruit and Produce. 
(5 FANEUIL HALL MARKET 
Hay 24, 1905. 
New Home berries in an hour; some say they can 
do better than that. 
I have a fine stock of these plants this year, and 
have put the price as low as other standard varie¬ 
ties, and everybody can have a chance at it. 
I was in Connecticut a few weeks ago, and one 
grower told me that it w r as an excellent berry with 
him, and brought jjtwo cents more with him than 
other fancy berries that he was growing. 
CHELLIE.—This berry has been on the market, 
now for several years, but for some reason I see lit¬ 
tle of it in the catalogues, possibly owing to the fact 
that it makes very large plants and but few of them. 
This variety cannot be grown profitably at the price 
usually charged for plants, but with me it is an ex 
6hape on good stock, and we think will oontlnuo so. Ve oertalnly ho ( 
we shall be able to ahovr you some good prices on your best stock 
Very.'truly yours, 
Diet. H. H. 
Mr. V. P. Allen, 
Salisbury, Md. 
Dear Sir,- Ae wired, 74 orates of ExoelslorS sold at 7 oenta 3 > 
of New Homes at, 14 oents, 2 orates of your father!a at 10 cents. 
XFFS^cellent variety, and produces very fine berries, of 
^ g 0 ? d quantity that are extra fancy, large, rather 
pointed and very firm. This is just the kind to 
suit your customers who want something a little 
better than anybody else and are willing to pay for 
them. I think our customers who grow a few and 
want them very nice would do well to give this 
berry a trial. 
BISMARCK. —This is a strong grower and very 
productive. It has a perfect blossom and resem¬ 
bles the Bubach verv much in habit and growth. 
Too well known to need further description. 
,,—_ BOSTON PRIZE. —Very strong, healthy plants 
1^^^/aCiwith wonderful ropt growth that prepares it to bear 
the heaviest crop of fruit. The berries are. well 
formed and well colored. 
The description of the New Home is as follows: BRUNETTE. — Originated by Granville Cowing 
As late and as large as Gandy, fruit a bright red of Indiana and is noted for its fine quality. Fruit 
color that does not lose its lustre and turn dark is medium sized, dark rich red to the center and 
after being picked a long time; uniformly large size, very productive. Nothing finer in quality grown. 
