W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, McL 
HIGHLAND. —This variety 
fruited here 
for the first time last spring and 
was one of the best new ones 
which we fruited. We found it 
to be large in size, very produc¬ 
tive and good quality. This was 
introduced by M. Crawford, of 
Ohio, and is a chance seedling 
found by T. M. Carlisle, of Ma¬ 
honing Co.. Ohio. Mr. Crawford 
claims to have tested this va¬ 
riety for ten years and finds it 
to be the best money-maker he 
has. It makes large, healthy 
plants, and was more productive 
than any other variety at the 
Wooster Experimental Station. 
The fruit is of good size, fine in 
color and form. It has been 
carefully tested at the Ohio Ex¬ 
periment Station and has proven 
one of the best. The accom¬ 
panying illustration hardly does 
it justice. As fruited here last 
season, I was very much pleased 
with it in every way and feel 
that it is a variety that I can 
afford to recommend. Mr. Craw 7 - 
ford in his 1909 catalogue speaks 
of it as follows : “We introduced 
this berry Yibout a year ago. with 
the co-operation of about twenty- 
five other dealers, on the strength 
of the reports sent out by the 
Ohio Experiment Station, w T here 
it was the most productive va¬ 
riety in a large collection. We 
gave it a fair test last summer 
and found that it was fully equal 
to its recommendation in all re¬ 
spects and superior in some. It 
was larger than we had reason 
to expect, and better in quality. 
We had a few quarts canned and 
found it first class for that pur¬ 
pose. Both berries and syrup are dark red. rich and 
delicious. The Highland makes larg Q , h alth.v plants. 
which send out a liberal number of runners. The 
fruit is obtusely conical, glossy red. rich and refresh¬ 
ing in flavor, though somewhat 
tart, and very juicy. It is mod¬ 
erately firm." 
LADY THOMSON. — This 
is a 
great Southern berry, or, per¬ 
haps. more correctly speaking, a 
great North Carolina berry, for 
in this State hundreds of acres 
an* planted of it in preference of 
anything else. The variety seems 
especially adapted to the condi¬ 
tions in North Carolina. This 
does not mean that it will not 
do well in other places, for we 
ship plants of this in many sec¬ 
tions besides North Carolina. It 
is more particularly adapted to- 
warm climates than to Northern 
sections. It makes strong, healthy 
plants that produce large crops 
of medium large, firm berries. It 
is a reliable variety for such cli¬ 
mates as California, Bermuda, 
Cuba, and the South generally. 
MEADE. —Originated by Mr. 
O. H. Meade, ex¬ 
president of the Massachusetts 
Fruit • Growers’ Association. I 
have fruited the Meade several 
times and find it a medium, dark 
i( d berry of unusually fine qual¬ 
ity. Moreover, it is very produc¬ 
tive and firm enough to stand 
shipping. It is good enough to 
attract the local market and 
should be a favorite on the home 
table. It is a very stalky, lew¬ 
growing plant, with dark green, 
glossy foliage: it makes plants 
freely, but seldom crowding too 
much for a matted row. The ber¬ 
ries are of medium size, pointed, 
globular shape : are w^ell formed, 
glossy red and good quality. 
