W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
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BUSTER. —This is one of 
the good things 
that seems to have been over¬ 
looked by a great majority of 
growers. Buster is a cross of 
the Bubach and the Sharpless. 
It is of large size, bright red, 
in color, moderately firm, me¬ 
dium in quality and medium 
to late in ripening. The blos¬ 
soms are pistillate, but ex¬ 
tremely hardy. During the 
spring of 1906, when nearly 
every other variety was killed 
by a late May frost, the Buster 
gave us a full crop. It is also 
very vigorous and healthy, hav¬ 
ing a luxuriant dark green fo¬ 
liage that defies a reasonable 
amount of dry weather. The 
fruit holds up large all through 
its long season. This is a good 
reliable variety that I advise 
you to plant. It will please you 
from the time it starts to grow 
after you set the plants until 
you have harvested your crop. 
VICK’S UNCLE JOE. 
WONDER ,—This is a new one, purchased from 
Mr. Crawford last spring, and as it 
has not fruited here, I will give his description : “This 
is truly a wonderful berry, and its merits are just com¬ 
ing to be appreciated. It makes immense plants with 
broad leaves and strong, stalky stems. It is perfectly 
healthy and very prolific, and the fruit is of great 
size and beauty, fine red Color, good quality and mod¬ 
erate firmness. In form it is pointed, conical, and uni¬ 
form, except that the first berry on the stem is some¬ 
times misshaped. It has been classed as late because 
it makes a long season, but on our grounds it begins to 
ripen with William Belt, and we see no other way but 
to call it medium.” 
WOLVERTON. —Originated in Canada and in¬ 
troduced by the late John Little. 
I have fruited this variety quite a number of years. It 
will succeed on almost any soil, but will do better on a 
sandy loam. The plants make a good growth, have a 
perfect blossom, which is full of pollen, and make an 
excellent variety to plant with medium early to lata 
pistillate varieties. It is no uncommon thing to see 
blossoms and ripe fruit at the same time. 
MY MAN. 
Burlington Co., N. J., April 17, 1907. 
W. F. Allen, Salisbury, Md. 
Dear Sir—I received the strawberry plants 
you sent me on Saturday evening, April 6, took 
cover off crate and placed in cellar; unpacked 
them on Wednesday and set them out. They 
were in fine condition and carefully packed. 
They are doing well. I am much pleased with 
? v; them, and when I want more “you are my man.” 
$ Respectfully, C. W. McCABE. ^ 
—This fruited with me the 
past season, and it is so much 
like New York that I am some¬ 
what in doubt as to whether it 
is identical or not. So far as 
my observation goes, the de¬ 
scription of New York will fit 
this as well as any I could 
write. I quote the following 
description from James Vick’s 
catalogue, who introduced the 
berry two years ago: “Vick’s 
Uncle Joe is entirely a new 
and distinct seedling, and the 
confidence gained by 52 years 
of experience in superior straw¬ 
berry culture warrants our 
saying that it combines all the 
Vick qualities necessary to 
make it the ideal which has 
so long been sought. It£ fruit 
is perfect in form of a dark, 
rich, glossy color, firm flesh, 
monstrous in size, combined 
with a most luscious flavor for 
every purpose, either for home 
use or for market, stands today without a peer in the 
world’s numerous strawberry family.” 
VICTOR. —Described by M. Crawford : “Plant of 
fair size, tough and healthy, like Sen¬ 
ator Dunlap, and productive under any method of cul¬ 
ture. The foliage is thrifty, dark green and handsome. 
The fruit is very large, round, conical, sometimes cor¬ 
rugated, dark glossy red, firm and of fine flavor. This 
is a great berry for market and home use and an excel¬ 
lent canner. Season medium to late.” 
VELVET. —The following description is borrowed 
from the introducer: “Wonderfully 
productive, and the fruit is large, bright red color, firm 
and of good quality. The plants are large with bright 
green foliage, clean and healthy, making good rows for 
fruiting. Season of ripening medium to late.” 
WARFIELD— A well-known standard variety, 
very productive, mid-season, and 
especially popular in the West. Fruit good quality 
and highly colored. It is a persistent plant-maker, and 
if not kept thinned out they will be so thick that it 
will be impossible for it to bear fruit of a desirable 
size ; but if kept thinned it is very productive of me¬ 
dium-size, highly-flavored fruit. My stock of plants 
this season is very nice. 
WILD WONDER. —Makes an abundance of run¬ 
ners and large quantities of 
rather small, though long-rooted plants. I notice that 
the plant is inclined to rust, though not enough to 
harm the crop. Fruited with me last under very un¬ 
favorable conditions, and produced a good crop. The 
originator claims that this variety will grow wild and 
bear a good crop of berries—a regular lazy man’s 
berry. Fruit small to medium, of the splendid Warfield 
type. 
