W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
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STEVENS’ LATE CHAMPION.— 
A very promising late variety of 
the Gandy type, but is said to be 
more productive. I had a few 
rows left last year after filling 
my plant orders, but owing to 
the late freeze, which killed al¬ 
most everything here in the 
strawberry line, 1 could not tell 
very much about it. I got a few 
berries that were very nice, and 
it leads me to believe that this 
variety is all right. I heard so 
many great things said about 
this berry at the New Jersey 
State Horticultural Society that 
I planted much more of it than 
I would otherwise have done. It 
is said to yield large crops of 
large, beautiful, good berries that 
ship well very late in the season, 
after most of the other varieties 
have ripened and gone. It is 
evidently a descendant of the 
grand old Gandy, but is a much 
better grower It is, undoubted¬ 
ly, a valuable late variety. We 
had a big demand for plants of 
this kind last year, and so far as 
I have heard, everybody seemed 
to be pleased with it. We have 
only a moderate sppplj' of this, 
this season, owing to the fact 
that it was planted after a peach 
nursery. I did not realize what 
this meaift until it was too late 
to remedy it. Last season this 
was the strongest grower we had. 
I have about 100,000 plants this 
year where I should have had 
300,000 had I planted them else¬ 
where; what I have are very nice. 
UNCLE JIM. —Makes a strong, 
healthy growth of very large fo¬ 
liage, similar to New York. It 
is said to be a chance seedling 
found near an old fruiting patch by Mr. Jim Dornan 
in Michigan some six years ago. Fifteen to twenty- 
five, if grown under favorable conditions, will usually 
fill a quart. This is an excellent berry for growers 
who want a fancy large berry for home use. I would 
hardly advise it for shipping purposes. 
WM. BELT. —Wm. Belt is a standard for quality the 
country over. There are few lovers of strawberries 
that w r ould not cross a plot of many varieties and pick 
out the Wm. Belt as the best. This variety is some¬ 
what subject to rust, and for this reason for a time 
"was not popular, but its superior quality and large 
size has made many friends for it. 
especially the amateur growers, who 
have an appreciative fancy market, 
or for the home table. The demand 
for this varietjr w’as so great 2 years 
ago that I sold every plant and 
bought out seven other growers to 
get plants enough to fill all my or¬ 
ders. _ I have been on the lookout 
ever since and now have a large stock 
of nice plants. I know of nothing 
that will approach it in quality, of 
its season, except the Chesapeake. 
CLYDE. —Immensely productive; 
fruit as large as Bubach, and would 
be one of the most popular varieties 
but forthe fact that its folia: e usu¬ 
ally gives away about fruiting time, 
and is not sufficient to protect its 
immense crop of fruit. Owing to 
this fact, many growers use a dress¬ 
ing of nitrate of soda in the spring 
to force vine growth, and when this 
is done it is a very desirable sort.' 
This is a very popular variety in . 
some sections of the Middle West. 
