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W. F. Allen’s Plant and Seed Catalogue, Salisbury, Md. 
1,000 Virginia, 1,000 Klondyke, 1,000 Haverland, 
1,000 Sample, 1,000 Saunders, 1,000 Gandy, 1,000 
Good Luck (fruit Virginia with Klondyke, fruit 
Sample and Haverland with Saunders) ; splendid 
value, for only $20.00. 
Collection “P”—New varieties, recommended 
for trial; 25 Bradley, 25 Colossus, 25 Chipman, 
25 Dicky, 25 Fremont Williams, 25 Governor Rol¬ 
lins, 25 Gill, 25 Goldsboro, 25 Golden Gate, 25 
Great Scott, 25 Oswego, 25 Pocahontas, 25 Penna. 
Dutchman, 25 St. Louis, 25 Shipping King, 25 
Saratoga, 25 Wonder, 25 Three W’s, 25 Mam¬ 
moth Beauty, 25 Red Bird (catalogue value, 
$15.20), all for $12.00. 
Collection “Q”—Some of my favorites; try 
them; 25 Abington, 25 Buster, 25 Brandywine, 25 
Chesapeake, 25 Cardinal, 25 Chellie, 25 Climax, 
25 Fairfield, 25 Fremont Williams, 25 Gandy, 25 
Good Luck, 25 Glen Mary, 25 Haverland, 25 How¬ 
ard, 25 Hummer, 25 Klondyke, 25 Marshall, 25 
Meade, 25 New Home, 25 New York, 25 Oom 
Paul, 25 President, 25 Red Bird, 25 Sample, 25 
Saunders, 25 Senator Dunlap, 25 Stevens’ Late 
Champion; 25 Uncle Jim, 25 Virginia, 25 ffm. 
Beit; thirty varieties and an excellent list, all 
for $0.50. 
Collection “R”—Try them all; I will send you 
12 plants each of the 110 varieties of strawberry 
plants listed in this catalogue for $20.00; lots of 
fun and profit in watching a trial bed like this; 
try it. 
Collection “S”—Experiment station special; 
25 plants each of the 110 varieties of strawberry 
plants listed in this catalogue for $32.00. 
DEWBERRIES. 
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 like a 
aweet potato vine. In size and quality it is the equal 
of any blackberry, and greatly exceeds them in produc¬ 
tiveness. The plant is perfectly hardy and commences 
ripening its fruit immediately after late strawberrien. 
Indeed, by planting the latest varieties of strawberries 
and earliest dewberries, 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 become very popular in all markets where known, 
and more and more are being grown every year and 
nearly always marketed at paying prices. It let trail 
on the ground they should be well mulched to keep the 
immense load of fruit from being spoiled by falling oo 
the ground. The best way, however, is to stake them 
as shown in our illustration. Our plan of cultivation 
is to plant in rows each way, two and one-half feet ons 
way by five feet the other, making about 3,500 plants 
per acre. Cultivate both ways till plants get long and 
troublesome, and then cultivate only the wide way and 
turn vines to keep the cultivator from tearing them off; 
or, better yet, use sweeps on your cultivator. These 
will run under the vines and weed u^ the grass without 
disturbing them. Leave vines lay on the ground till all 
danger of winter killing is over, and then 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 
or three feet above the ground and one hill from each 
way tied to the top of the stake. Or where timber for 
stakes is scarce they can be used at longer Intervals by 
using wire to lay the vines over, same as grapes. I use 
binder twine for tying to stakes. When grown as above 
directed the plot or field in bloom is prettier than you 
can imagine, and when fruit comes it is the wonder, 
admiration and delight of all w r ho see it. 
LUdtETIA. — The standard dewberry, earlier 
than the earliest blackberry and 
as large as the largest of them. The canes are of great 
hardiness and exceedingly prolific, thriving every¬ 
where ; of slender trailing habits, and entirely free 
from disease and insect attacks. The fruit Is superb, 
large and handsome, jet black, rich and melting, ana 
ships and keeps well. I grow the Lucretia largely for 
market, having as many as 50 acres in fruit at one time. 
