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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
25 Collossus, 25 Early Ozark, 25 Florella, 25 Glen 
Mary, 25 Haverland, 25 Highland, 25 Howard, 25 
Hummer, 25 Meteor, 25 New York, 25 New 
Home, 25 Oom Paul, 25 St. Louis, 25 Sample, 
25 Dunlap, 25 Three W’s, 25 Virginia, 25 Wm. 
Belt. Twenty-five each of 25 varieties. The 
Cream of the list, amounting to $ 18 . 95 , all for 
$ 15 . 00 . 
COLLECTION “R” —Try them all. Twelve 
plants, each of the 88 varieties listed, amounting 
at our dozen rate postpaid to $ 31 . 65 , all for $ 20 . 00 . 
COLLECTION “S^-Experiment Station 
special, consisting of 25 plants, each of the 88 
varieties of strawberry plants listed, amounting 
at catalogue price to $ 39 . 85 , all for $ 30 . 00 . 
COLLECTION “T”— The “Family Delight” 
Home Garden Collection of Small Fruits. This 
collection of small fruits, planted and given a 
reasonable amount of care, will bring more real 
enjoyment and health to your family than you 
could possibly bring them with a like amount 
any other way. 100 St. Louis, 100 Dunlap, 100 
New York, 100 Glen Mary and 100 Chesapeake 
Strawberry plants, 50 Austin and 50 Lucretia 
Dewberry plants, 50 Rathbun, 50 Eldorado Black¬ 
berry plants, 50 King and 50 Cuthbert Red Rasp- 
berrv plants, 50 Palmer and 50 Cumberland Black 
Raspberry plants, 25 Wilder and 25 Fays Pro¬ 
lific Currants, 12 Houghton and 12 Downing 
Gooseberries, 2 Moore’s Early, 2 Eaton, 2 
Niagara, 2 Diamond, 2 Wyoming Red and 2 
Vergennes Grape Vines; also 100 Giant Argen- 
lenil Asparagus and 12 Rhubarb Roots, all the 
above for $ 15 . 00 . 
Order all collections by letters as Collection 
“A,” Collection “B,” etc. 
DEWBERRY PLANTS. 
The dewberry is constantly growing in favor, and 
is today, next to the strawberry, the most popular of 
all the small fruits. The vines trail on the ground 
similar to sweet potato vines. In size and quality it 
is the equal of any blackberry, and greatly exceeds 
them in productiveness. The plant is perfectly hardy, 
and commences ripening its fruit immediately after 
late strawberries. By planting the latest varieties of 
strawberries and the earliest varieties of dewberries, 
such as Austin’s, there need not be a single day’s gap 
between the two. The dewberry is sweet and luscious, 
with few seeds and no hard core. The fruit has be¬ 
come very popular in all markets where known, and 
more and more are being grown every year and nearly 
always market at paying prices. If let trail on the 
ground they should be well mulched to keep the im¬ 
mense load of fruit from being spoiled by falling on 
the ground, and the vines should be cut back to two or 
three feet in length. The best way, however, is to 
stake them. Our plan of cultivation is to plant in 
rows each way two and one-half feet one way by five 
feet the other, making about 3,500 plants per acre. 
Cultivate both ways until plants get long and trouble¬ 
some, and then cultivate only the wide way and turn 
vines to keep cultivator from tearing them off; or, 
better yet, use sweeps on your cultivator. These will 
run five or six inches under the vines and cut up the 
grass without disturbing them. Leave vines lay on 
the ground untill all danger of winter cold is over and 
then, very early in the spring, before buds put out, 
stakes should be driven between each alternate hill the 
two and one-half foot way. The stakes should be two 
and one-half feet to three feet above ground and one 
hill from each way should be tied to the top of the 
stake, using binder twine for tying. If timber is 
scarce, the stakes can be used at longer intervals by 
fixing a wire along on the stake to lay the vines over, 
the same as grapes. When grown as above directed, 
the plot or field in bloom is prettier than you can 
imagine, and will bear an immense load of attractive 
and delicious fruit. 
AUSTIN’S IMPROVED (MAYES).—An early 
dewberry of excellent quality. It produces large 
crops, but the berries lack firmness for long shipment, 
hence valuable chiefly for home use or local market. 
If, however, they are kept picked up close as soon as 
ripe and not allowed to stand too long on the vines, 
they may be shipped a reasonable distance. I ship 
them to Baltimore and Philadelphia, a distance of 
about 125 miles, but seldom try to ship them farther. 
Prices will usually compare very favorably with other 
varieties, as you get extra early fruit, which is in 
better demand. The berries are large, short and thick. 
Canes vigorous, hard and productive ; ripens with me 
a week earlier than Lucretia, and for this reason is 
valuable to grow in connection with that variety. I 
always plant about one-third of my field in Austin’s. 
It is very hardy and seldom fails to give a good crop. 
