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Nineteen Hundred and Eight 
^C)NOTHER MILESTONE in life’s journey has been passed and for 
A ^\ the twenty-third time I am handing around my catalogue. First 
)) of all I want to thank everyone who so kindly entrusted their 
■“6 orders to me last year (1907). So generous was the patronage 
received that it was by far the most prosperous year I have ever 
experienced. My stock of strawberry plants was so large that I hardly expect¬ 
ed to run short on more than one or two varieties, but before the season was 
over about twenty of the leading sorts were entirely sold out. This year my 
plants are very fine, and my stock is larger than ever Everything in the 
standard varieties worth growing, and all of the promising new ones, are listed, 
making about 108 varieties of strawberries, all of my own growing—not "pedi¬ 
gree stock,’’but plants that are true to name, vigorous and healthy, which 
to careful, intelligent growers means far more than "pedigree’’ as applied to 
strawberry plants. 
My facilities for handling your orders are better than ever before and sec¬ 
ond to none. I have recently completed a large and conveniently equipped 
packing house where we can handle in the best possible manner oier v!f>0,000 
plants daily. In a wing to this building is our moss pit (a very important 
factor). We use the best selected Jersey moss, which is the cleanest and best 
to be- had. We buy it by the car load, place in pit and moisten just right — 
neither too wet nor too dry. This insures your plants to arrive in good condi¬ 
tion, makes lighter packing and less express charges than when soggy wet moss 
is used 
I trust that my plants have given such universally good results the past 
season that the coming season of 1908 will eclipse the past one. 1 have the 
goods and the facilities for handling them. May I have your orders? 
Again thanking you most cordially for past favors and trusting I may soon 
have the pleasure of serving you again, I remain, 
Yours very respectfully. 
W. F. ALLEN, Salisbury, IVId. 
• Please Road This Twice 
I want your order for Strawberry Plants, but I want it at the right 
time, when I know that I can serve you equally as well as anyone, and 
better than a great majority in the business. When is the right time ? 
Any time after November 1 st until May 1 st. March and April, the great 
planting season, almost our entire attention and that of over a hundred 
helpers is given up to filling plant orders, and we want to fill yours. 
From May 1st to May 10th we will fill a limited number of orders on any 
stock that is unsold and put in the very best possible order, but at purchasers 
risk as to results. 
After May 10th, during June, July, August, September and October 
before the 1 5th, We most positively will not fill any orders for small 
fruit plants. (ThisMoesmot apply to vegetable plants). 
r-ffeWe are willing to answer any questions during the summer months as 
promptly as possible, if written in a short letter and to the point. Long let¬ 
ter i are subject to long delays. This notice was made necessary from the fact 
that we receive hundreds of orders for strawberry plants during the summer 
months whon we have no plants in fit condition to transplant and when not one 
in ten could make even good plants grow if we could send them unless it were 
potted plants, which I do not grow at all. Thanking you for your attention, 
I remain, Yours faithfully, 
W, F. ALLEN, Salisbury, Md. 
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WHITE & WHITE, PRINTERS, 3ALISBURY, MD 
