W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
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KLONDYKE,— A very popular medium early 
market berry from Mississippi. 
The Klondyke has been quite extensively planted for 
the last year or two both North and South. Hundreds 
of acres of this variety have been planted in this sec¬ 
tion for the Northern markets. The plants are only 
medium in size, but fairly productive. Like Gandy, it 
produces some pistillate blossoms early in the season. 
The fruit is large, obtusely conical, smooth, red, firm 
and of good quality. A grower in Mississippi says : 
“I have 50 acres of this variety alone, and it leads all 
the others as a great market berry. Here large growers 
especially are making extensive plantings of this va¬ 
riety and it seems to be giving satisfaction generally.” 
It makes a good crop of well-colored, firm, large ber¬ 
ries, such as ship well and bring the top of the mar¬ 
ket.. A fine grower, being no trouble to get a good 
stand, and, in fact, should be thinned in most cases 
for best results. It is a good, safe berry to plant 
when it is necessary to ship a long distance. 
MITCHT^L’S EARLY.— Originated by a Mr. 
Mitchell, of Arkansas. 
If grown on good soil it must be kept thin or it will 
go too much to vines. For eating Trom the vines after 
it is full ripe, there is probably nothing better, and 
until the Excelsior came it was the leading market 
berry in this section, as well as for home use. A few 
growers that I know of held on to it for a number of 
years after the advent of the Excelsior, and claimed 
that it paid them better than that variety. Too well 
known to need further description. 
PENNSYLVANIA DUTCHMAN— T h e orig¬ 
inator o f 
this variety is not known. I bought my stock of plants 
from the Keystone State from one of my customers, 
who writes me as follows : “I have a new berry that 
has no name and eleven or twelve will fill a quart. In 
the Harrisburg market they have been bringing 25 
cents per box when the rest were only eight cents. 
They have perfect blossoms and firm. No one has 
them except one party and myself and he will not sell 
any plants. I will spare you some if you wish to buy 
them, and I will sell them to you and nobody else.” I 
bought the plants and was well pleased with them. 
The plants are very large—as large as any I have 
ever seen. The foliage is a healthy light green, and it 
makes ample runners. The fruit is large and very at¬ 
tractive. The plants bear quite a resemblance to the 
New York. We have been receiving some very good re¬ 
ports from the berry, and I think our customers will 
be pleased with it. 
NORTH SHORE. —Originated by Benj. H. Smith, 
of Beverly, Mass., a well- 
known and noted strawberry grower. It is a very fine 
berry, fair quality and large size. It makes a splendid 
growth of large, broad leaves, healthy plants, which 
bear a fair crop of fine berries of good quality. Season 
is very late. Those who are looking for a very fine 
shipping berry very late in the season would do well to 
try this. I would recommend planting it in heavy, 
rich soil, as I do not think it would give satisfaction 
in light, sandy or thin soil. 
OOM PAUL.- I have fruited the Oom Paul two 
or three seasons and consider it a 
very good variety. It is a good variety for the home 
garden and firm enough for shipping. My opinion is 
that it will do well in most locations. With me the 
variety makes a good growth of large, healthy plants, 
which make enough runners to bed up nicely. The 
fruit is large, the larger berries being sometimes a 
little flattened. The berries are dark red all the way 
through, are firm and of good quality. I see no reason 
why it is not more largely planted than it is. 
PARSONS’ BEAUTY. —Originated in this coun¬ 
ty, near Parsonsburg. It 
is very productive, medium large and good quality. 
Anyone who has a near market where the fruit can be 
hauled in, or picked one day and sold the next morn¬ 
ing, I would recommend this variety. Some claim that 
it will ship well, but I have never felt that I could rec¬ 
ommend this as a berry that would ship a long dis¬ 
tance and give best results. It makes a luxuriant 
growth of dark green, vigorous plants, which bear an 
imm« nse crop of medium to large berries. 
KING EDWARD King Edward originated 
with D. ,T. Miller, of Ohio. 
The plant as grown here has made a very good show r - 
ing; large plants, large foliage and a free grower. 
The fruit is also very large, good quality and moder¬ 
ately firm. Mr. Miller says the King Edward has 
been well tested from the Atlantic to the Pacific and 
has made a great record and, all things considered, is 
the greatest berry he has ever grown. Mr. Miller is 
very enthusiastic over his new berry and expects it to 
meet with great success. 
