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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
ARIN’G-T'ON. —*] 1’his is a chance 
seedling that 
originated in 1895 by Lester Blanch¬ 
ard, of Abington, Mass., and was in¬ 
troduced by him in 1905. It makes 
plenty of plants, is a strong, vigor¬ 
ous grower, with rich, dan< green 
leaves. It has a perfect blossom and 
is quite large, twenty-five berries 
often filling a quart. It won second 
prize at the Massachusetts Horticul¬ 
tural Show on June 21, 1904. The 
fruit stocks are strong and stand 
erect from tho ground : the blossom 
is pi rfect and well tilled with pollen. 
It ripens with the Bubacli. averaging 
fully as laige and holds out well 
throughout the entire season. I would 
not hesitate to plant it in preference 
to Bubach and recommend it to my 
customers. In color it is bright red, 
with firm flesh and good flavor. With 
me it is moderately productive, but 
Mr. Blanchard claims to have picked 
9,000 quarts per acre. It will not do 
that here and neither will many other 
kinds. It is a much better grower 
than Bubach and the fruit is of bet¬ 
ter quality : in fact, it is an excellent 
variety to plant with Bubach to po- 
lenize it. We have flattering reports 
concern ng this variety from differ¬ 
ent sections of the country, and I 
consider it one of the best of the 
large mid-season varieties. 
HUMMER. —This is well repre¬ 
sented in the illus¬ 
tration. The origin is not known. I 
obtained this variety from Mr. John 
Kolvaard, in Michigan, who writes 
me about the berry as follows: “W. 
F. Allen, Dear Sir—On my grounds 
is a new strawberry that is a hum¬ 
mer. Understand me, I am not its 
originator. It has been grown for sev¬ 
eral years by a man who lives about 
ten miles from here. He always re¬ 
fused to sell plants, even though as 
much as $2.00 each were offered him 
for them, but finally, through mis¬ 
take, he sold some of the plants for 
Sharpless. After finding it out he 
tried to get them back, but failed. We 
growers have not been able to eom- 
pete with (his berry in the Battle Creek market, as 
one of its merchants had its exclusive sale and ship 
ped it as a fancy berry to Kalamazoo, Jackson, etc. 
The original owner has sold out and moved West. I 
know 7 of but one party besides myself who has this 
variety : he is an old man from whom I got my plants. 
I do not believe the variety has been introduced. It is 
my opinion that it is an English berry. The origina¬ 
tor being out of the field and out of business, I felt at 
liberty to let you have some of the plants.” 1 pro¬ 
cured plants from this party at once, and from his de¬ 
scription I called it the Hummer and offered it to the 
public four years ago for the first time. It is a very 
strong, healthy plant, somewhat resembling New 
York. These large, vigorous plants load up with big, 
luscious berries. Anyone who buys plants of this va¬ 
riety cannot help but feel that they have something 
valuable when they see the large, stalky plants they 
make. One customer writes: ‘-If you remember, I 
bought a number of varieties of strawberries from 
you in the sprng of 190b; among them w r ere the Hum¬ 
mer. These plants fruited this season, and I want to 
say that the Hummer beats anything I ever saw 7 or 
heard of. I think you will have a great many orders 
for them from tlrs'section.” We have had many other 
similar reports, and from all that 1 can learn this va¬ 
riety has been doing good work. A good, safe one to 
plant, especially for home market or the home garden. 
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THE BEST NOW. T 
Guernsey Co., Ohio, April 26, 1909. % 
W. F. Allen, Salisbury. Md. 
Dear Sir—Plants arrived in good time; 
were ahead of any that I have bought for 
years. It is the firet time that I ever re- 4* 
4 ceived plants fresh dug, and did not know « 
3J where I could get fresh plants until your 4* 
£ plants arrived. I can truly say that you 
a take the lead in plant growing. I wish to 4* 
thank you for the quality of plants and man- $ 
ner you have handled my order. I will T 
ak surely know where to get the best now. T? 
Very truly, E. E. LYNN. 4 
