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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
ated with Mr. E. T. In- 
BRANDYWINE. —Originate 
graham, near West Chester, 
Pa., some sixteen to eighteen years ago. This is a va¬ 
riety that thrives on almost any soil and usually gives 
good results. For several years after it was intro¬ 
duced our sales on this variety run very large, and 
then for two or three years there was scarcely any 
demand for it. Since that period, however, our or¬ 
ders have been constantly increasing from year to 
year, until now there is almost as much demand for 
it as there was a few years after its introduction. 
Notwithstanding it originated in the North, it seems 
to be one of the most popular fancy berries for semi- 
tropical sections, such as Bermuda, Florida, Califor¬ 
nia, Cuba, etc., and has given such good satisfaction 
in these warm sections that I recommend my cus¬ 
tomers there to use this variety largely. In fact, it 
is a variety that seems to grow well, fruit well and 
gives satisfaction generally in almost all sections. 
One of the standards that can be relied on. 
DICKIE. —Originated by J. D. Gowing, of Massa¬ 
chusetts. Mr. Gowing was also the 
originator of the Sample. He considers the Dickie a 
very fancy berry and says that it sold for more than 
Sample in the Boston market out of the same field. 
Mr. Gowing has been a strawberry grower for forty 
years and has grown many strawberries, and he says 
he has seen nothing liner in the berry line in fiis life. 
He is very enthusiastic over this berry, but my im¬ 
pression is that it will never become as popular as 
the Sample. It is a berry that will give good results 
for the home table or for the local market, but will 
never, in my opinion, become popular as a shipping 
berry. The quality is excellent and the size is very 
large, but the berry has a very rough and uneven sur¬ 
face that detracts much from its appearance. For 
those who do not object to the uneven surface of the 
variety and want very large berries of fine quality, 
with a vigorous, healthy growing plant. I can recom¬ 
mend the Dickie. We have a very good stock and 
will be able to fill all orders. 
CRESCENT. —This is not largely grown in the 
East at present, but is still popu¬ 
lar in some sections of the West, where it produces 
great crops of fine berries, and those who have never 
grown it have missed one of the best medium-to-late 
varieties. About twenty years ago it was the most 
largely planted of any variety in this section, but 
later has given away largely to other kinds. For 
years it was to strawberry culture what the Early 
Rose potato has been to the potato culture. 
TENNESSEE PROLIFIC. - r i ’oo well known to 
need any general 
description. I do not know the originator, but it was 
introduced by W. T. Hood & Co., of Richmond, Va. It 
is a reliable standard variety. It makes a good, 
healthy growth and bears an abundant crop of large 
berries, which has a perfect blossom and is one of the 
best to plant with Haverland and other pistillate va¬ 
rieties of its season. It makes a very vigorous, thrifty 
growth and succeeds well in most every section. The 
fruit bears a marked resemblance to the old Sharp¬ 
less, but it is firmer and very much more productive. 
