W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
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GLEN MARY.- —The Glen Mary was originated 
near West Chester, Pa., and in¬ 
troduced by myself in 1906. Ever since it was first 
grown it has been immensely popular throughout New 
England, the Northern Middle West and the North¬ 
west. In this great territory we doubt if there is a 
more popular and a more largely grown variety today 
than the Glen Mary. This berry has never waned in 
its popularity, but seems to gain new friends among 
berry growers every season. For the benefit of those 
who did not get my 1909 catalogue I will repeat the 
description therein given, which covers the ground 
very thoroughly : 
“I introduced this variety twelve years ago at $10.00 
per 100. Throughout New England and the West it is 
the leading berry of the list today. We sell more 
plants of it year in and year out than any variety 
that we grow. I do not recommend it for this penin¬ 
sula, or for the South, but for New England, West and 
Northwest. I doubt if there is any variety that will 
equal it in every respect. It is only semi-staminate, 
but as its blossoms carry enough pollen to fruit its 
own berries, it is listed as a staminate variety, but I 
would not recommend it to plant with pistallate varie¬ 
ties as a pollenizer. They are big. dark red beauties 
with prominent seeds of bright yellow ; the meat is 
rich and juicy and crimson in color. They are of such 
high flavor that when once eaten more are wanted. As 
a good, firm shipper it is very popular : for fancy local 
market there are few, if any, better. For this reason 
they are popular with both the large and small grow 
ers. It has no particular choice of soils, and does not 
require petting. The roots are long and well-developed. 
foliage is large, upright in growth, dark green in color, 
leaves nearly round with dark glossy surface, making 
a beautiful appearance in the field. The fruit stems, 
although large and strong, are weighted to the ground 
by the large clusters of berries; for this reason they 
should be well mulched to keep them clean. The ber¬ 
ries are just the right size to make a fine appearance 
in the crate, and you do not have to be timid about 
asking a big price for them, as everyone will pay extra 
to get extra fine berries. I will repeat below a few r 
quotations from letters received within the last month. 
“Last spring I had the finest bed of strawberries I ever 
had, but a late freeze ruined the crop. Out of the four 
varieties that I had, Glen Mary came out the best.’'— 
Harriet Crawford, of lacking Co., Ohio. “Have grown 
Glen Mfiry for several years and find it my most profit¬ 
able variety. The berries are large, showy and fair 
quality, handle well and are immensely productive, 
good plant maker, deep rooted, resisting drought won¬ 
derfully well, and, above all, are long seasoned.”—J. 
Howard Broomer, of Chester Co.. Pa. “I have found 
no plants to come up with Glen Mary, taking all 
sides of the question into consideration.”—-John Ibson, 
of New Haven Co., Conn. “Glen Mary is the berry for 
Clermont Co., Ohio. It has berries in abundance and 
will bring a dollar more per bushel than any other 
berry on the Cincinnati market. Holds up well in size, 
almost as large at last picking as first. If I was going 
to set out 5.000 plants next spring. 4,000 would be 
Glen Mary.”—Rev. E. R. Lewis, of Montgomery Co., 
Ohio. “Glen Mary first place, Sample second, Gandy 
third, Hummer fourth. Climax fifth. I give Glen Mary 
first place because it yields the largest amount of big 
providing plenty of moisture during a drought. The berries.”—Mr. T. Miler. of Chester Co., Pa. “With cur 
