15 
W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
HAVERLAND. 
This variety is well 
known throughout 
the country, and the 
demand for it seems 
to grow larger all the 
while. It will be hard 
to say too much in 
favor of this good 
old standard sort, 
and I doubt if I can 
improve on last 
yea r’s description, 
which is as follows : 
This has proven to 
be the most popular 
mid - season variety. 
It was proven by a 
test vote several 
years ago, it receiv¬ 
ing one-third more 
votes as being the 
best mid - season va¬ 
riety. (There were 
no votes sold and 
no bribery at the 
election, e i t h e r.) 
While a pistillate 
variety, it is one of 
the easiest to pol- 
lenize. The plant is 
healthy, large and 
vigorous, makes am¬ 
ple runners and is 
very productive. The 
bloom is medium 
size and extremely 
hardy. They should 
be well mulched, as 
the fruit stems are 
not able to hold the 
immense load of ber¬ 
ries from the ground, 
and the straw will 
keep them clean 
and alsQurmake pick¬ 
ing easier. This va¬ 
riety is so enormous¬ 
ly productive that 
the bright, large, 
juicy berries lie in 
great heaps around the plant. This berry has worked 
its way to the top ; it has never been boomed by any 
introducer, as most varieties have been. Any one not 
thoroughly familiar with the varieties, and wishing to 
start in the strawberry business, will always be safe to 
plant this kind. It was a leader.a generation ago, and 
unlike most other varieties, seems to be as good today 
as it ever was. It is not likely that anyone would 
ever regret planting the Haverland. Under favorable 
conditions. I have seen it average as large as guinea 
eggs. It demands close to a million plants a year to 
supply my trade of this variety, which shows its im¬ 
mense popularity. 
HEPHN’S EARLY .—This variety seems to be 
quite a little in demand, 
why, I cannot understand, as with me it is positively 
the poorest grower and the most sickly looking plant 
on the farm. I planted it last year in quantities suffi¬ 
cient to have made at least 100,000 plants; I do not 
believe there are 10,000, while right beside it other 
varieties have made an excellent growth and fully up 
to expectations. Owing to its lailure to grow, I am 
only able to offer it in lots of 100 or less. I may plant 
another row next year, but not more than that, as it 
is rather expensive cultivating and trying to grow a 
crop that persistently refuses to grow. Personally, I 
do not recommend it. 
HOFFMAN— For many years the most largely 
grown market berry in the South. 
It is very firm and is quite productive on heavy or 
springy land ; it does not do well on sandy land. At 
one station about 80 miles south of Salisbury it has 
been the most largely grown variety for many years, 
and is always sold at the depot at paying prices, owing 
to its excellent carrying qualities. 
HOWARD— A late variety, ripening with the 
Gandy and excelling it in productive¬ 
ness, also in growth and quality of fruit. It is a seedling 
of Barton's Eclipse crossed with Gandy. It has made a 
very good showing with me, and is spoken of in the 
Rural New Yorker as follows : “Late, strong, produc¬ 
tive, foliage tough and resistant, very large berries, 
firm and well colored, quality better than Gandy ; a 
promising market sort.” 
HUMMER. —Offered by me for the first time two 
years ago, and I sold a hundred 
thousand plants the first season. It is a very strong, 
healthy plant, somewhat resembling New York. These 
large, vigorous plants load up with big, beautiful, 
luscious berries. Anyone who buys plants of this va¬ 
riety cannot help but feel that they have something 
valuable when they see the large, sta.„y plants it 
makes. My stock of plants -this season is not quite as 
large as last year, and it is somewhat doubtful if I 
will have enough to go around. In a letter just re¬ 
ceived from Mr. A. G. Saulsbury, Kidgely, Md., he has 
this to say of the Hummer : ‘‘If you remember, I, bought 
a number of varieties of strawberries from you in the 
Spring of 1006. These plants fruited this season, and 
I want to say to you that the Hummer -beats anything 
I ever saw or heard of. I think you will have a great 
many orders for them from this section this spring.” 
The history of the berry is best given in a letter 
which I received from Mr. Kolvoord, from whom I ob¬ 
tained my plants. The letter is as follows : 
Kalamazoo County, Mich., Jan. 21, 1906. 
W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md., Dear Sir—On my 
grounds is a new strawberry that is a “Hummer.” Un¬ 
derstand me, while I am not its originator. It has been 
grown for several years by a man who lived about ten 
miles from here. ITp alwavs refused to sell plants, 
notwithstanding as high as *2.00 each were offered for 
them, but two or three years ago he sold by mistake for 
Sharpless. After he found it out he tried to induce the 
man to dig them up. but the buyer mistrusted what he 
had received and said he thought those would do. We 
growers have not been able to compete with said berry 
in Battle Creek market. One of the merchants had its 
exclusive sale and shipped it as a fancy berry to Kala¬ 
mazoo, Jackson, Lansing, etc. The original owner has 
sold out and removed to the West. I know of but one 
besides myself that has this variety. He is an old man 
from whom I got mv plants. T do not believe, any in¬ 
troducer has it. It is m.v opinion that it is an English 
berry, because the man above alluded to is an English¬ 
man. The originator being out of the field and out of 
the business, I feel at liberty to let you have some of 
the plants. Yours truly, 
JOHN KOOLVORD. 
